Original photograph by German photographer Stefanie Schneider (*1968), artist Inventory #6645 Moustache (Stage of Consciousness) part of the 29 Palms, CA project Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs PROCESS: Archival C-Print on RC photographic paper. Based on the Polaroid. AGE / period: 2007 DIMENSIONS: 20 x 24 cm CONDITION: in excellent condition featuring Radha Mitchell (Melinda and Melinda, Finding Neverland, On the Road) 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, an 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.