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AKA (Also Known As)–script for a short film
The set of photographs “AKA (Also Known As)—Script for a Short Film,” 2002, is a hypothesis for a film. The film follows an unnamed Arab-looking man for three days in two German cities, Berlin and Hamburg, from a public library to an electronics shop, then across the streets and on to an internet café, where he meets another man. We see him again in a university lecture hall, then taking the metro to a nondescript apartment building, then into a cinema, and finally back in the street. The point of view switches between that of the subject of the film, and that of a third-person narrator and the spectator. The subject of the film is supposedly a sleeper, a terrorist of a dormant cell. His identity is visually constructed as a composite of a stereotype, in order to break the mechanism of projective identification of a threatening Other in the spectator’s gaze.
The texts under the images are cinematographical indications of action and technical notations (e.g. ‘Ext.’ for Exterior, ‘Int.’ for Interior, ‘POV’ for Point of View, ‘CCTV’ for Closed Circuit Television).
62 black & white pigment prints, each 294 x 420 mm
Book: “Passengers,” 28 x 21 cm, 180 pages, 63 colour images, 65 black & white images, hardcover with dust jacket, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg 2005
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