Pocket Polaroids Series #004

Stefanie Schneider: 29 Palms, CA

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, a US Army soldier, a mystic princess, a recluse, a movie ticket seller, two hitchhikers, a doctor, and so on...) are to be played by both actors and non-actors. The story is constructed through the interpretation of real life communications (i.e. hone calls, emails, conversations) that take place as the individuals depicted in the story try to make sense of events that occur 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.

ISBN 978-3-937623-04-7
24 EUR

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