Stefanie Schneider - Untitled (Cricket on the Nose Scene)

Original photograph by German photographer Stefanie Schneider (*1968)

Untitled (Cricket on the Nose Scene) - 2009,
from the 29 Palms, CA project.

20x20cm,
sold out Edition of 10, this is Artist Proof 2/2.
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory No. 10015.12.
Not mounted.

29 PALMS, CA 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 depicted in the film 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. The characters depicted in the film, (an actress, a singer, a DJ, a motel owner and his wife, a US army soldier, a mystic, a princess, a recluse, a movie ticket seller, two hitchhikers, a doctor, a director, etc.), are played by both actors and non-actors. The story is constructed through the interpretation of real life communications (i.e. phone calls, emails, conversations) that have taken place as the individuals depicted in the story try to make sense of events that have occurred in real life. In this sense the story is, in part, a biography and social commentary, and the characters are the exaggerated alter egos of the individuals who play them.