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THIS IS a TRUE STORY 1997-2012 Vier Kurzfilme Von Penny Siopis In Kollaboration mit dem Kino Kunstmuseum THIS IS A TRUE STORY 1997-2012 Vier Kurzfilme von Penny Siopis Four short films by Penny Siopis Penny Siopis ist Südafrikanerin Penny Siopis is a South African of mit griechischer Herkunft. Sie lebt Greek descent. She lives in Cape in Kapstadt, wo Sie eine Town where she is an Honorary Ehrenprofessur an der Michaelis Professor at Michaelis School of School of Fine Art, University of Fine Art, University of Cape Cape Town inne hat. Sie arbeitet Town. Siopis works in painting, vorwiegend mit Malerei, Film, film/video, photography and Video, Fotografie und Installation. installation. She has exhibited Ihre Arbeiten haben seit den widely, in South Africa and 1970er Jahren unterschiedliche internationally. She had a solo Schwerpunkte abgedeckt. Diese show, Three Essays on Shame, at kreisen jedoch stets um das, was the Freud Museum, London, in sie die „Poetik der 2005. She has taken part in the Verwundbarkeit“ nennt. Eine biennales of Sydney, Poetik die, von Geschichte, Johannesburg, Gwangju, Havana Erinnerung und Migration bis hin and Venice. zu Scham, Gewalt und Sexualität, gekennzeichnet ist. Neben My Lovely Day nationalen sowie internationalen [1997, 21 min 15 sec] Ausstellungen hat Sie an den Biennalen von Sydney, My Lovely Day vereint Sequenzen Johannesburg, Guangzhou, aus 8mm Videos, die die Mutter Havanna und Venedig der Künstlerin Ende der 1950er teilgenommen. und 1960er Jahren in Südafrika aufgenommen hat, zu einer Geschichte über Vertreibung und Migration. Parallel erzählt Siopis' Großmutter von Ihren Reisen nach Griechenland, England und Südafrika in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. Dieses Zusammenspiel wirft einerseits den Blick auf die Apartheid, andererseits auf die Globalisierung und das Exil. 1 / 4 Die traditionelle griechische Musik Obscure White Messenger stammt, wie die Videosequenzen, [2010, 15 min 7 sec] von einer 1955 entstandenen 78 RPM Aufnahme, auf welcher Obscure White Messenger nutzt Siopi’s Mutter "My Lovely Day“ Found Footage-Filme, um die singt. Die unterschiedliche Geschichte von Dimitrios Qualität der Found Footage Tsafendas zu erzählen, der den dramatisiert das Wesen des Films südafrikanischen Premierminister als Artefakt und bezieht sich auf und "Architekten der Apartheid“, den fragmentarischen Charakter HF Verwoerd, 1966 ermordet hat; des Gedächtnisses. der Titel verweist auf Tsafendas in Nelson Mandelas Autobiografie: „Long Walk to Freedom“. Was trieb Tsafendas an, diese Tat zu begehen? In Ihrem Video geht Siopis dieser Frage nach und erforscht die Vermischung von Wahnsinn mit politischen Motiven. Sie stellt die Frage, was es bedeutet in einer Welt zu leben, in der eine spezifische My Lovely Day combines spliced Staatsangehörigkeit den sequences of 8mm home movies MigrantenInnen ihr Mensch sein that the artist’s mother shot in the begründet und legitimiert. 1950s and 1960s in South Africa to tell a story of displacement and migration. While the narrative ‘voice’ is that of Siopis’ maternal grandmother speaking of her literal and emotional journeys to Greece, England and South Africa in the early part of the 20th century, and to some extent overlooking the apartheid moment from which she speaks, the film Obscure White Messenger uses has wider resonance as an allegory found home-movie footage to of globalisation and exile. The tell the story of Dimitrios sound comprises traditional Greek Tsafendas, who assassinated music and an old 78 rpm record, the South African prime made in 1955, of Siopis’ mother minister and architect of singing ‘This is my lovely day’. apartheid’, HF Verwoerd, in The uneven quality of the found 1966; it takes its title from a footage dramatises the nature of reference to Tsafendas in the film as artifact and resonates Nelson Mandela’s with the fragmentary nature of autobiography, Long Walk to memory. Freedom. What drove 2 / 4 Tsafendas, a man of mixed Gerichtsprozess wurde Pratt, der race, a migrant, working as a an Epilepsie leidet, als parliamentary messenger at the unzurechnungsfähig erklärt. Das time, to commit this act? Siopis im Video Gesprochene stammt explores the intermingling of vollständig von Pratt selbst und madness and political motive wurde aus verschiedenen Quellen evident in transcripts of zusammen getragen. interviews with Tsafendas. Throughout the film there is the question of who the ‘illegitimate’ Tsafendas is and where he belongs; of what it means to be stateless in a world where citizenship all too often establishes and legitimates what it means to be fully human. In The Master is Drowning the The Master is Drowning artist extends her use of found [2012, 10 min 25 sec] film beyond home movies to historical documentary, In The Master is Drowning combining private and public kombiniert die Künstlerin film sequences to create a story historische Aufnahmen aus that is both fictive and ‘real’. Nachrichtensendungen mit The narrative unfolds privaten Videos. Durch diese chronologically, culminating in Vermischung von privaten sowie the attempted assassination of öffentlichen Filmsequenzen, the South African Prime erzeugt Sie eine Geschichte, die Minister HF Verwoerd by sowohl fiktiv als auch 'real' ist. David Beresford Pratt, a white Dabei entfaltet sich die Erzählung liberal businessman and chronologisch und hat ihren farmer. The attempt occurred Höhepunkt im versuchten Attentat in 1960 on the eve of the auf den südafrikanischen inauguration of the apartheid Ministerpräsidenten HF Verwoerd South African Republic, and is durch den liberalen weissen depicted through the inclusion Unternehmer und Landwirt David of actual news footage from Beresford Pratt am Vorabend der that time. Pratt went to the Einweihung der „Apartheid South annual Agricultural Show in African Republic“, 1960. An der Johannesburg and shot alljährlichen Verwoerd twice in the face at Landwirtschaftsausstellung in point blank range following his Johannesburg schoss Pratt opening address. Miraculously, Verwoerd mehrere Male ins Verwoerd survived, and in the Gesicht. Dieser überlebt wie aus ensuing court process Pratt, Wunder. Beim anschliessenden who suffered from epilepsy, 3 / 4 was declared unsound of mind. und Video – wobei diese keinen The words in the video are Zusammenhang zum Geschehen Pratt’s, drawn from different haben – mutiert diese Zufälligkeit sources including transcripts of zu einer historischen Tatsache der his trial and newspapers of the Geschichte. Begleitet wird das time. Video von einem afrikanischen Wiegenlied. Communion [2011, 5 min 30 sec] In Communion the story is about an Irish nun, Sister Aidan, who was also a medical doctor, Elsie Quinlan. She was murdered by a crowd of angry people in the Eastern Cape, who were protesting against apartheid laws during the Defiance Campaign in 1952 in South Africa. Many of the people in the crowd knew and loved Sister Aidan, but she was in Communion ist die Geschichte the wrong place at the wrong einer irischen Nonne, Schwester time. In newspaper reports and Aidan, die unter dem Namen Elsie scholarly articles, questions Quinlan als Ärztin praktizierte. Sie emerged about ‘common cause’ wurde während der Defiance and culpability – which of the Campaign 1952 von einer crowd committed the murder? wütenden Menge ermordet, die in Pathologists could not determine der Provinz Eastern Cape gegen how she died, because parts of her Apartheid-Gesetze protestierte. body were missing, some allegedly Viele der Menschen kannten und eaten. Siopis situates Sister liebten Schwester Aidan, jedoch Aidan’s ‘voice’ (read as subtitles) war sie zum falschen Zeitpunkt in the first person: she narrates am falschen Ort gewesen. In her own death, as if from the Zeitungsberichten und Artikeln grave. Contingency is hooked to wurden Fragen nach der historical fact through Siopis’ gemeinsam verursachten Schuld selective use of text in aufgeworfen – hatte die Menge combination with film sequences – den Mord begangen? Weil Teile anonymous home movies that do ihres Körpers fehlten, konnten not connect in any way to the auch Pathologen nicht feststellen, empirical facts of the story. The wie sie gestorben war. sound is an African lullaby. In Communion situiert Siopis Schwester Aidan’s "Stimme" (gelesen als Untertitel) in die erste Person: aus dem Grab heraus erzählt sie über ihren eigenen Tod. Durch die gezielte Wahl von Text 4 / 4 .
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