Corinna Schnitt

Corinna Schnitt works on everyday life and the private in her films and videos. The staged micro-scenarios deal with regulated processes in the corset of family structures, petty-bourgeois ideals and life problems, "West German sense of order", punctuality and cleanliness.

Corinna Schnitt reduces monologues and images to the essential. Her stories emerge in the area of tension between the documentary and the fictional, between precise observation and subtle humor. Often the artist is also among the performers in front of the camera. This presence gives the pieces of work an additional supposed authenticity and increases the irritation that already arises in the exaggeration of the stories told. The texts - as answering machine or narrator often only heard off-camera - usually have a real, sometimes biographical origin, but are still edited and rewritten by Corinna Schnitt. (Gerald Weber)

Program 1 
Corinna Schnitt: Prima Leben (followed by artist talk)
Schönen guten Tag (D 1995, 16mm, b/w, 5 Min.)
Zwischen vier und sechs (D 1997, 16mm, colour, 6 Min.)
Raus aus seinen Kleidern (D 1999, 16mm, colour, 7 Min.)
Das schlafende Mädchen (D/NL 2001, 16mm, colour, 9 Min.)
Schloß Solitude (D 2002, Video, colour, 10 Min.)
Das nächste Mal (D/NL 2003, Video, colour, 6 Min.)
Living a Beautiful Life (D/USA 2003, Video, colour, 13 Min.) 

Program 2 
Carte blanche für Corinna Schnitt: Der andere Mensch (introduction by C. Schnitt)
Lasso (Salla Tykkä, Fin 2000, 35mm, colour, 4 Min.) 
train (Julika Rudelius, D/NL 2001, Video, colour, 7 Min.) 
Moi vu par (Sylvie Boisseau/Frank Westermeyer, D/F 1999, Video, colour, 18 Min.) 
Widerspruch in sich (Rabea Eipperle/Rahel Puffert, D 2001, Video, colour, 7 Min.) 
Shouting Match (George Barber, UK 2004, Video, colour, 12 Min.) 
Consolation Service (Lohdutusseremonia) (Eija Liisa-Ahtila, Fin 1999, 35mm, colour, 24 Min.)
Annemiek (Rineke Dijkstra (NL 1997, Video, colour, 4 Min.)