Stefanie Schneider

Stefanie Schneider (1968) is a German photographer living in Berlin and Los Angeles. Schneider's photographs exhibit the appearance of expired Polaroid instant film, with its chemical mutations. It has been released in books and exhibition catalogs, and in her own feature film 29 Palms, CA (2014). Her work has also been used as the cover art for music by Red Hot Chili Peppers and Cyndi Lauper, and in the film Stay (2005).

Life and work

Schneider's preferred choice of location is the American West (especially Twentynine Palms, California, which served as location and title to one of her books), and the mounting of sequential images in a panel, the photographs evoke the impression of faded dreamy film stills. She holds an MFA in photography from the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany.

Schneider completed 29 Palms, CA in 2014. A feature film, art piece that explores the dreams and fantasies of a group of people who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert. The project includes six films: "Hitchhiker", "Rene's dream", "Sidewinder", "Till death do us part", "Heather's dream" and the feature film "The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence". A defining feature is the use of still Polaroid images in succession and voice over. Characters talk to themselves about their ambitions, memories, hopes and dreams. The latest of these short film is "Heather's dream", starring Heather Megan Christie and Udo Kier, and was selected in May 2013 by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and is also nominated for the 2013 German short film award.

In a review of her book Stranger Than Paradise, Daniel Kothenschulte writes in the German magazine Literaturen that:

Stefanie Schneider is an internationally known artist that takes analog photographs and makes experimental movies with them. Schneider has cribed some of the titles of the series of her enlarged Polaroids from her favorite movies: Red Desert, Zabriskie Point or The Last Picture Show. Even if most images remain connected to the genre of road movies—in one case one seems to get a glimpse of Ridley Scott's tragic runaways Thelma and Louise.[1]

Schneider has made album covers for the Red Hot Chili Peppers 2006 Desecration Smile single and Cyndi Lauper's 2008 Bring Ya to the Brink album cover. Schneider produced all the artwork in the 2005 film Stay directed by Marc Forster for the character played by Ryan Gosling. The end credits were also done with expired Polaroid film.

Other appearances

In 2016 Imposible Magazine reported that Dutch director Willem Baptist was shooting a feature documentary titled Instant Dreams, which features Schneider to represent the artist in the film.[2] Instant Dreams will have its premiere at the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2017, where it will be competing in the First Appearance Competition and Dutch Documentary Competition.[3]

Publications

Stranger Than Paradise (2006)
  • Wastelands. Edition Braus, 2006. Edited by Thomas Schirmböck. ISBN 3-89904-211-5. With essays by James Scarborough, Megan Mullally, Mark Gisbourne, and Renée Chabria. Edition of 50 copies
  • 29 Palms, CA. 2004. ISBN 3-937623-04-3. With an essay by Stefan Gronert, "The Greater The Emptiness The Grander The Art". Edition of 400 copies.
  • Stranger Than Paradise. Hatje Cantz, 2006. Edited by Dominique A. Faix, Noëlle Stahel, and Daniela Bosshardt. ISBN 3-7757-1751-X. In German and English.
  • 29 Palms, CA. Pocket Polaroid Series #004. Berlin: Schwarzer Freitag. ISBN 978-3-937623-04-7.

References

  1. ↑ Daniel Kothenschulte: "Fehlfarbige Filmhelden regieren diese Welt: Stefanie Schneiders Foto-Band "Stranger than Paradise'", Literaturen, April 2006, p. 4. Online version retrieved 14 January 2010.
  2. ↑ "Instant Dreams". magazine.the-impossible-project.com. 2016-08-31.
  3. ↑ "312-films-geselecteerd-voor-idfa-2017". biosagenda.nl. 2017-10-09.
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