Catalogue > Un extrait vidéo au hasard

Stefanie Schroeder

40h, max. 2 Monate

Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 0:0 | Allemagne | 2017

To speed up the process of becoming an independent self-employed artist and to end my dependence on Hartz 4 unemployment benefit, I had to participate in a program for business optimization, carried out by a management consultancy that was engaged by the Jobcenter. My proposal to make a film documentation of the process was denied. I transformed recordings of conversations, hand-outs, correspondence, my dream diary and the pre-printed form F 5.5 into a scenario about my “project on the artistic business personality,” in which the role models of artist, entrepreneur and welfare recipient, all represented by myself, clash and make me grapple with their compatibility. What does optimization mean? Which language is used? How are my actions and how am I described, adapted and, if so, deformed?

Studies in art education, art history, communication science, Greifswald University. Organisation of WBS70, independent culture centre, Greifswald. Participant of art squat project prora.allinclusive Guest student in media art at HFG Karlsruhe. Exchange student at Villa Arson, Nice. Studies in photography at HGB Leipzig. Participant of Professional Media Master Class / PMMC LAB at Werkleitz e.V. Halle/Saale. Member of the Cinematic Initiative Leipzig FILZ https://filz.works/de/about. Supervisor/teacher for digital photography and image editing, Kulturbahnhof e.V. Markkleeberg. Participant of Pilot Programme for emerging filmmakers, MDM. www.schroederstefanie.de