2020, 52’min, HD, Mini-DV digitalized, colour, stereo, de/en
The film this year’s girl shows the fictional collective images of / off images at their work as a commissioned team of photographers and filmmakers for the Austrian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale 2019. The collective – the filmmakers themselves – become observers of their own observations. From a kaleidoscopically nested perspective, the film shows how blurred the boundaries are between commissioned and freelance art, documentation and fiction, working time and private time, the sense of belonging and not belonging, and collaboration and individual work.
Directing/Camera/Editing: İpek Hamzaoğlu, Laura Nitsch, Sophie Thun
Additional Camera: Katharina Aigner
Sound Editor: Theda Schifferdecker
Re-recording Mixer: Lenja Gathmann
Music by: Mala Sirena
Appearances: Katharina Aigner, Ana Berlin, Renate Bertlmann, Reinhold Bertlmann, Leander Gussmann, İpek Hamzaoğlu, Daniela Kammerer, Laura Nitsch, Jule Saupe, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Sophie Thun and Mala Sirena
Supported by: Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport, Wien Holding, Stadt Wien, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna