Home Stories
Matthias Müller
Germany / 1990 / Experimental / 6’0”I9200099
DE 3
I 1
B 2
E8C
Research Award - 1992
SYNOPSIS
Various passages from several Hollywood melodramas of the Forties and the Fifties are weaved together into a seamless choreography of glances and gestures. Home Stories is created out of found material but never- the-less is formed of original esprit. Scenes of Hollywood-melodramas are montaged so that - because of the repetition - the cinema-goddesses obtain the appearance of a stereo-type classical victim. The beauties are looking at some kind of threat that is placed outside the image. But the only thing that returns to them is the perspective of the spectator. Müller's heroines have many destinies but only one role. They represent the observed in a scope where looks can kill. It is amusing that Müller both analyses the mechanism of voyeurism and therefore he uses the history of film and its rule as a basis for his own game. (Heike Kuehn, FR, 1991)
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