About a World - Corinna Schnitt (Germany, 2007, video, 09:00 min)In “Von einer Welt” [“About a World”], the world is an idyllic Alpine landscape of forests and meadows. A man is striding through it, alone, to stand in the next scene on a meadow with a dozen nude women lying in high grass; each is draped. The man approaches each woman individually at times tenderly, at others more overtly. His attempts at making contact remain futile, as they produce no reaction at all. The women seem to have become part of nature, as if “from another world.” With minimalist staging devices, the artist opens a discourse on the forms of aphasia between the sexes, between body and intellect, between the emotional and the rational, between nature and culture, between one world and another. |
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