HD video, color, 17 min., 2008
The 17-minute, single take video documents the encounter between a listening woman shown in the image, who is addressed as a film producer, and a woman speaking who describes a prospective film project off camera. While the speaker virtuosically muddles through the details of a complex film plot, she moves the camera and studio lights around, lights sparklers, holds filters in front of the camera lens, changes backgrounds, and carries out other activities to change the film set.
Text and image refer back to one another in different ways. On the one hand, the effects and staging of the presentation pander to the listener as the potential producer of the film. On the other, the listener turns up as the protagonist in the plot being described, and is cast in a screen test as a potential performer in the film.
The play with the overlapping and superimposition of references between text, objects, and persons blurs the boundaries between roles and identities and reveals the performative dimension of language.
with:
Evelyn Rüsseler
Isabell Spengler
concept, camera, editing: Isabell Spengler