Deklinationen, or: Can I inherit my dead parents' debts?,
short film, 28 min, HD colour, stereo, de/en with subtitles
The copy of a copy of a copy without original: more than a hundred professors are hanging on the wall. They all look alike. And they all look at me. And it is not clear if they know that I am looking back.
The tradition to depict professors in oil or marble exists in various German-speaking universities. The so-called professor galleries – partly stemming from the 17th century, partly still in process – function as a university’s self-portrait, then and today. What remains invisible at first, though, are the exclusions. Apart from the obvious exclusions based on race, class and gender, there are also subtle details: Not all of the professors could afford the required painting. If the payment was too low, certain parts (for example the hands) were simply left out.
DEKLINATIONEN (CAN I INHERIT MY DEAD PARENTS’ DEBTS?) is a short film about norms and forms, about hands and arguments, about different bodies and bodily knowledge.
Deklinationen, or: Can I inherit my dead parents' debts? was shown in the exhibition Das Begreifen (21er Haus Vienna), art festival Tell Tales and in the exhibition Attitudes (Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn), among others.
with
Barbara Juch
Katharina Aigner
Ipek Hamzaoglu
Mirela Baciak
Franzis Kabisch
idea, directing, editing, camera, voice-over
Franzis Kabisch
camera
Laura Nitsch
translation
Barbara Juch
Katharina Spiel
sound mixing
Peter Priglinger
funded by
GegenKulturreferat ÖH der Akademie der bildenden Künste
Projektförderung der Akademie der bildenden Künste
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung
Deklinationen, or: Can I inherit my dead parents' debts?,
short film, 28 min, HD colour, stereo, de/en with subtitles
The copy of a copy of a copy without original: more than a hundred professors are hanging on the wall. They all look alike. And they all look at me. And it is not clear if they know that I am looking back.
The tradition to depict professors in oil or marble exists in various German-speaking universities. The so-called professor galleries – partly stemming from the 17th century, partly still in process – function as a university’s self-portrait, then and today. What remains invisible at first, though, are the exclusions. Apart from the obvious exclusions based on race, class and gender, there are also subtle details: Not all of the professors could afford the required painting. If the payment was too low, certain parts (for example the hands) were simply left out.
DEKLINATIONEN (CAN I INHERIT MY DEAD PARENTS’ DEBTS?) is a short film about norms and forms, about hands and arguments, about different bodies and bodily knowledge.
Deklinationen, or: Can I inherit my dead parents' debts? was shown in the exhibition Das Begreifen (21er Haus Vienna), art festival Tell Tales and in the exhibition Attitudes (Haus am Lützowplatz Berlin and Bundeskunsthalle Bonn), among others.
with
Barbara Juch
Katharina Aigner
Ipek Hamzaoglu
Mirela Baciak
Franzis Kabisch
idea, directing, editing, camera, voice-over
Franzis Kabisch
camera
Laura Nitsch
translation
Barbara Juch
Katharina Spiel
sound mixing
Peter Priglinger
funded by
GegenKulturreferat ÖH der Akademie der bildenden Künste
Projektförderung der Akademie der bildenden Künste
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung