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Vienna Suite (1999)
Directed by Marcia Hafif
Documentary · 20m
During a stay in Vienna, Hafif was stuck by store window mannequins, which fascinated her with their highly artificial quality. The discovery inspired her to create a series of photographs of the figures. Standing in the street, the artist captured them in their ‘natural habitat,’ which is to say, behind a pane of glass. Folding the surrounding scene into the pictures, the reflections in the windows refract our gaze at the figures. On a semiotic level, urban architecture and the female body blend into each other. To expand this photographic series into the film Vienna Suite, Hafif resorted to a very basic device: she recorded the photographs with a static video camera and edited the footage to produce a sequence of ‘scenes.’
Crew
- Director
- Marcia Hafif
Details
- Release date
- 1999-01-01
- Runtime
- 20m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN