Fully Automated Luxury Dystopia

Sidsel Meineche Hansen’s video Maintenancer (2018), made in collaboration with filmmaker Therese Henningsen, is set in Bordoll, a real German brothel that offers sex dolls for rent. Clients select one of the silent, pouting figurines. Their nylon hair comes in different shades, but they all have huge breasts and don’t talk back. Like many transactions in the sex industry, a visit to Bordoll is designed to feel automated and on-demand. The place is owned by a sex worker who does sessi