Boy Cried Wolf
Max Göran / Germany & Sweden / 2026 / World Premiere / 23 min
Performative video work recorded in an underground tunnel, where an artist explores authority, obedience, and whether wolves are actually harmless.
Max Göran, the artist or director or performer, walks into a tunnel that doubles as a film set, or maybe just itself. She tests out a story told by a friend: a Finnish scientis once smeared his face with blood and let wolves lick it, to prove they weren’t dangerous. But the storyline slips. A routine won’t go right. An off-screen voice, part director, part overbearing mother or maybe witch, demands another take. Pre-takes and after-takes become the thing. Wolves finally arrive. Somewhere between rehearsal and dream, the work turns into something else: about conventions of contemporary art, video art, about sex (as in sex), about dissolving borders of subjectivity, friendship and obedience, about what counts as ‘real life’ when it happens inside the dreamworld of a camera.
