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"sonst wer wie du"
Jeanne Faust
Jörn Zehe
Jeanne Faust’s conceptual photographs and films refer to
a culturally characterized memory of films and images. She
stages scenes that seem completely ordinary and at the
same time could have been extracted from a movie. In the
film “sonst wer wie du”, which Jeanne Faust produced in
collaboration with artist Jörn Zehe, the immobile camera
is directed at a field of leek, located in an industrial district
and a hazy landscape in the Alps between Hall in
Tyrol and Innsbruck. The meeting of two men is being
staged: One man, invisible for the viewer, calls another
young man, who is working on the field. Judging by their
languages, the latter may be a Polish seasonal worker, the
former a local resident. Their attempted conversation fails
because of the language barrier, Polish and Tyrolean
dialect, and the few English fragments are not of much
help, either. The words – about a lady’s watch that has disappeared,
or the invisible man asks the younger one
whether he is married – do not permit to infer anything
about the possible plot or a relation of dependence
between the two men. At the same time, because of the
characters and the cinematography, you “somehow” feel
reminded of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films, which are
chiefly concerned with relations of dependence.
“sonst wer wie du” is exactly the opposite of a feature
film: it does not draw the viewer “into” a plot, but constantly
refers to its outside – to the visualisations of the
characters and the possible plot created by the viewers; to
the fact that meaning is only generated by the spectator’s
anticipation and retrospect; or to the camera, when the
young man approaches it. In this way, the viewer’s perspective
on the seasonal worker is equated with the invisible
man’s point of view. The entire constellation, the peculiar
meeting, the attempted conversation or the young man’s
averting, thus also have an effect on the spectators and
their expectations.
Jeanne Faust, artist, born 1968, lives and works in
Hamburg. / Jörn Zehe, artist, born 1968, lives and works
in Hamburg.
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