Baby Paradise Trilogy

The Baby Paradise Trilogy (2018-now) - consisting of Baby Paradise, Baby Paradise TV & Sister Games - is a multi-media series of works that plays with trauma and taboo. At its center is Baby Paradise — a “Barbie doll-playing prostitute” who performs, processes, and parodies her own exploitation. Puppet or puppeteer?
The trilogy reveals its myth through doll choreography, bizarre rituals, uncanny stories, flashbacks, and Trump/Weinstein commentary. Moving between performance, installation, and film, the trilogy offers a feminist reflection on body politics, daddy issues, and the (fe)male* gaze — rooted in Anna Valeska Pohl’s former relationship with a sex worker.

The Guardian (Observer) called the anti-peepshow installation (Part I) “a must-see show.” Baby Paradise TV (Part II) received an Honorable Mention from LA Underground Film Forum and was a Semi-Finalist at Arthouse Festival Chicago, USA.

Baby Paradise (part I; immersive performance installation), premiere: 2018 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, UK

Baby Paradise TV (part II, experimental short), several international screenings & awards: 2022 Los Angeles Underground Film Forum (Honorable Mention), 2022 Blow Up Arthouse Film Festival Chicago (Semi-Finalist)

Sister Games (part III; narrative short)

Writer-director: Anna Valeska Pohl

Performer (Baby Paradise / Baby Paradise TV): Anna Valeska Pohl

Performers (Sister Games): Carmen Lafran, Anna Valeska Pohl