Nothing important happened today, 04:35 min, HD, sound, Berlin 2024
In Nothing important happened today the understanding of reality is constantly questioned in a loop and the dream is offered as an escape room. Ambiguous and surreal sequences reinforce the feeling of an in-between state. The night dream serves the processing of experiences, the day dream allows an escape from reality.
Group-Exhibition Erschütterung, Kunstquartier Bethanien/Projektraum, April 2024 (Photo © Paula Winkler, 2024)
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Now, everything feels like a dream, 07:12 min, HD, sound, Berlin 2023
Now, everything feels like a dream is an almost utopian story from the future and depicts the journey and everyday life of a spaceship. Even in the future, also in space, exploitation rules. Like everywhere else, everything on this ship is functionalized and geared towards productivity. There is a regulated structure, as well as strict working hours, omnipresent the drone of the ship. Only now and then, in small moments, the crew finds itself in the same daydreams, always with the hope of rest and an end to the work.
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Dinner Time Story, 04:31 min, HD, sound, Berlin 2023
During a performance by the filmmaker with a potato and a frozen fish, workers in a factory can be seen in the frame next to it. Live surveillance of a factory, whose location we do not know, flickers, as do the monotonous movements of the workers. Meanwhile, a male computer-generated voice tells us a story about the invention of a new dish that tastes great and is extremely cheap.
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My Life My Future, 07:60 min, HD, sound, Mannheim/Berlin 2023
Video installation with interviews ( and a portrait series) that was created as part of the “My Life - My Future!” project with young people from Das andere Schulzimmer.
Oktober 14th 2023 at Das andere Schulzimmer, Lichtmeile Mannheim, Mannheim.
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We're happy here
A film by Mara Božić & Darja Preuss, 03:42 min, HD, Sound, Berlin 2022
„We’re Happy Here“ is a visual journey on a planet whose inhabitants are haunted by empty phrases of promises for a happy life and the pressure to represent success in various aspects of life.
Directed by Mara Božić & Darja Preuss
Camera: Mara Božić & Darja Preuss
Editing: Mara Božić & Darja Preuss
Sound: Darja Preuss
Voice: Léna Hoschek
The text collage is based on the Book "Excerpts from Bangkok Real Estate Advertising" of the work "Dream Property" (2016) by Miti Ruangkritya
("Excerpts taken from Bangkok Real Estate Advertising" by Miti Ruangkritya Printer: Parbpim Printing
Publication date and place: 2016 / Bangkok, Thailand
Format, binding, and size: 10.15 x 18 cm / Perfect Binding
Number of pages and images: 144 pages and 1 image
Type of printing and paper: Offset Print / Eural, 80 gsm)
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