Keren Cytter
Untitled, 2009
Untitled, 2009
16 min, digital video, color/sound
In „Making Worlds“ curated by Daniel Birnbaum at the Venice Biennale 2009, 53rd International Art Exhibition. 7th June – 22nd November 2009.
Keren Cytter’s video is based on the true story of a young boy who shot the lover of his father out of jealousy. Cytter is not simply narrating the story, but focusing on the psycholocgical moments of fear, rage and sorrow which she intensifies through the medium of cinema (Fassbinder, Cassavetes, Polanski, Hitchcock) and assembles to a new structure of story telling. The setting of the work is a classical theatre stage. In some of the sequences the audience appears as a second viewer.The video is shown in a wooden theatre tribune which was built to create a self contained room in the Venice Arsenale exhibition hall, so that the audience could feel the depressing intimacy of every scene. With Bernhard Schütz and Carolin Peters Keren Cytter has chosen two of the most brilliant German actors in the field of psychology and melodrama.
Keren Cytter’s video is based on the true story of a young boy who shot the lover of his father out of jealousy. Cytter is not simply narrating the story, but focusing on the psycholocgical moments of fear, rage and sorrow which she intensifies through the medium of cinema (Fassbinder, Cassavetes, Polanski, Hitchcock) and assembles to a new structure of story telling. The setting of the work is a classical theatre stage. In some of the sequences the audience appears as a second viewer.The video is shown in a wooden theatre tribune which was built to create a self contained room in the Venice Arsenale exhibition hall, so that the audience could feel the depressing intimacy of every scene. With Bernhard Schütz and Carolin Peters Keren Cytter has chosen two of the most brilliant German actors in the field of psychology and melodrama.