29 Palms, CA
a project by Stefanie Schneider
in collobaration with Radha Mitchell, Renée Chabria, Marc Forster, Nadia Conners, Robert Mack, Camille Waldorf, JD Rudometkin and Udo Kier
producers: Mica film, Berlin, Caroline Haertel, Udo Kier, Robert Mack, Lance Waterman
29 PALMS is a feature film/art piece that explores and chronicles the dreams and fantasies of a group of individuals who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. The world that the film depicts is inspired by the photographs of German artist Stefanie Schneider in that it combines the notions of reality and fantasy and explores the resonance of both within a desert landscape and a transient culture. A defining feature of the film is the use of still images and the use of voice over. Characters talk to us/themselves/you about their ambitions, memories, hopes, fears and dreams. The film is to be shot using a mix of super 8 and 16mm film stock and Polaroid images. Certain computer generated effected will also be used to enhance the films surreal mood and to animate its dark humor.
Radha Mitchell, actress, screenplay "29 Palms, CA"
Radha Mitchell, actress, screenplay "29 Palms, CA"
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sidewinder
a project by stefanie schneider
images, mise en scène and editing by stefanie schneider
story and script written by jd rudometkin
a project by stefanie schneider
story and script written by jd rudometkin
all music written and performed by jd rudometkin
acting by jd rudometkin and stefanie schneider
assistance kirsten schneider
acting by jd rudometkin and stefanie schneider
assistance kirsten schneider
"private history turned into an intimate mythology of ele- mental fantasies where reality is perceived through a veil of psychedelic memories and unconscious projections. such is a collection of passions and dreams, an uncanny diary of ephemeral narratives and mental intensities in Stefanie Schneider’s painterly photographs where subjectivity of an ontological doubt uses a poetics of pastische as a vehicle for an intertextual journey towards the truth and the au- thenticity of primary emotions. here time is immersed in a nostalgic suspense of oneiric dimension, a sort of ambig- uous coma of silence and comfort, and open space embraces a psychotic landscape of solitude and accidental pleasure. fetishisized surface of extreme feelings gives a stage for an unsolicited promise of unconditional love and unlimited freedom, a promise framed by sensual tension between ful- fillment and expectation."
Adam Budak, Kunsthaus Graz, Oct 2005