EVERY PICTURE IS AN EMPTY PICTURE
Director Christoph Faulhaber
Countries Germany
Duration 68 min
Synopsis
In his first feature-length movie Faulhaber is creating a compelling narrative encompassing fiction, auto-biography, documentary and video art: As the protagonist of a video game he reflects upon his art projects, describing the unbelievable and almost absurd developments and events he has triggered by his work., The work of German artist Christoph Faulhaber has repeatedly provoked scandals typical for the post-9/11 era: His performances have been terminated by a massive police force, stipends have been retracted or annulled, and courts have prosecuted him. Faulhaber has not only been watched by the German intelligence service but has been targeted in the US by the FBI and divisions of Homeland Security., His work investigates the boundaries of public space and presents it as a contested territory of conflictual interests, as a place where the private and the political overlap and meet, and finally, as a stage for the renegotiation of the power of the image. A film about games and reality, politics and art, failure and resistance.
In his first feature-length movie Faulhaber is creating a compelling narrative encompassing fiction, auto-biography, documentary and video art: As the protagonist of a video game he reflects upon his art projects, describing the unbelievable and almost absurd developments and events he has triggered by his work., The work of German artist Christoph Faulhaber has repeatedly provoked scandals typical for the post-9/11 era: His performances have been terminated by a massive police force, stipends have been retracted or annulled, and courts have prosecuted him. Faulhaber has not only been watched by the German intelligence service but has been targeted in the US by the FBI and divisions of Homeland Security., His work investigates the boundaries of public space and presents it as a contested territory of conflictual interests, as a place where the private and the political overlap and meet, and finally, as a stage for the renegotiation of the power of the image. A film about games and reality, politics and art, failure and resistance.