Special screening of works by Corinna Schnitt
and launch of the publication that accompanies the project

Publication Launch
Tuesday, June 7, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. at OBORO, 2nd Floor



A woman cleans her kitchen fervently and then the stairs. You hear a number of messages on her answering machine. They come from her landlord who expresses the same anxieties over and over again: worries about the dirtying of the washrooms in the staircase by strangers or about the loss of keys lent to the tenants.

In her very first film, “Schönen, guten Tag” (Hello Ms. Schnitt) (1995), Corinna Schnitt already presents the key to her practice. Her subjects are daily routine, the rules and behavioral patterns of the nuclear family and the social ideologies of perfection. Schnitt's films are very carefully constructed, presenting a fascination with precise composition. The particular relationship between sound and image in her staged mini-scenarios creates an often-ironic link between private and public spheres and among narration and architecture.

PROGRAMME

Schönen, guten Tag (Hello Ms. Schnitt), 16 mm, 1995, 5 min.
v.o allemand , s-t en anglais

Zwischen vier und sechs (Between four and six), 16 mm, 1998, 6 min.
v.o allemand , s-t en anglais

Raus aus seinen Kleidern (Out of your clothes), 16 mm, 1999, 7 min.
v.o allemand , s-t en anglais

Das schlafende Mädchen (The sleeping girl), 16 mm, 2001, 9 min.
v.o allemand , s-t en anglais

Schloss Solitude, 16 mm, 2002, 10 min.
version anglaise

Das nächste Mal (Next time), Video, 2003, 6 min.
version anglaise

Living a beautiful life, Video, 2003, 13 min.
version originale anglaise