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The actor Philipp Hochmair is working on becoming the EVERYMAN. The filmic narration revolves around the mime`s quest for identity of his diverse persona. He seems to lose self-perception, becomes desperate, then rises again - needing to be nothing and nobody to become everything and everyman?

Katharina Pethke, born in 1979 in Hamburg, is a filmmaker and professor at the HFBK – Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg. She studied German and art history in Hamburg and film at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. In her internationally acclaimed diploma film Louisa, she portrayed her sister, who had gone deaf and decided to learn sign language in her early twenties. As a film author Katharina Pethke has realized works for German television and has produced her own documentary works.