Stefanie Schneider. The Girl behind the white picket fence

-Creo que puedo crear mi propio mundo estético. ¿Hasta donde puede llegar? No lo sé. Para mí, la estética no reside en el objeto únicamente, tiene que haber profundidad en el.

Hecha a base de polaroid fija y voz en off, The Girl behind the white picket fence (La chica detrás de la cerca blanca) explora y registra los sueños y las fantasías de un grupo de individuos que viven en una caravana en el desierto de California.

Stefanie Schneider, artista multimedia de origen alemán, residente en Los Angeles, presenta este film tras años de escritura de guion, toma de polaroids y producción. Surrealista humor negro que evoca la libertad y el destierro, el último amor, el amor presente y futuro; Radha Mitchell, Marc Forster, Udo Kier y Max Sharam, entre otros, han participado en el proyecto.

-¿Qué significado tiene una captura de cámara, sin apego emocional?. Tengo que conocer a una persona lo suficientemente bien como para ver sus verdaderos sentimientos. La confianza es imprescindible para mí y sin ella, es imposible trabajar, para mi. 

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credits:
Script: Tanja Trittmann, Stefanie Schneider, Robert Mack
Cast: Heather Megan Christie, Udo Kier, Kyle Larson, Steve Marshall, Jeff Leaf, Camille Waldorf
Music: Sophie Huber, Cheyenne Randall, Billy Harvey, Zoë Bîcat, Max Sharam
Haus by Sophie Huber, Daisy McCrackin, Axel Ruhland, Adam Weiss
Executive Producers: Caroline Haertel & Mirjana Momirović, Co-produced by ARTE, Comissioning 

Editor: Barbara Häbe, A Production by micafilm

Supported by Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg

via we are selecters | heather megan christie

'The Girl behind the White Picket Fence' (60m, Germany) dir. by Stefanie Schneider. An artists world of movie stills ‚The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence' is a succession of Polaroid film stills. One after another, this film takes this to the limit and still delivers. Sometimes quickly, sometimes slowly, flowing with the rhythm of the music or in the energy the film portrays. Gaps keep the viewer paying close attention. But this is no Instagram lark, this is real analog Polaroid film. This is a one off, a complete window into an artists mind as she sees the world. Sunny, hot, in love, open spaces evoking freedom but also banishment. This film started out with a vision of grand collectiveness with all participants coming from Schneider's time in Hollywood ranging from directors to actors, producers to agents and writers to weirdos. The American dream was alive and well in this motley group who fell in love with Schneider's idea to capture a story about love on Polaroid film. The center of this story is the 'Lonely Hearts Radio Station' DJ, who talks to the searching broken hearted in the Southern Californian desert. A sad young girl calls in to better understand what is going on which results in an unexpected chain of events. Main characters: Hans, the mystic played by the veteran actor Udo Kier. Heather's a young girl who's lost her parents played by Heather Megan Christie. Lonely Hearts Radio Station's DJ played by the comic Steve Marshall. Hank is the local garbage man played by Kyle Larson.