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Shadowing the Invisible Man–script for a short film
The set of photographs “Shadowing the Invisible Man—Script for a Short Film,” 2001, is a hypothesis for a film. The film follows an unnamed illegal migrant in his journey from southern to northern Italy, from his point of landing on a beach near Otranto to his crossing of a lake along the border with Switzerland. The point of view switches between that of the subject of the film, who is never seen, and that of a third-person narrator and the spectator. The illegal migrant is the excluded Other of the social order. His ‘invisibility’ is visually constructed in order to expose the ideological underpinnings of the occlusion mechanism of the spectator’s gaze.
The texts under the images are cinematic indications of action and technical notations (e.g. ‘Ext.’ for Exterior, ‘Int.’ for Interior, ‘POV’ for Point of View).
54 C-prints on aluminium, each 205 x 270 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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