Subordination

With her camera, Ariane Loze researches the coming to life of a story out of seemingly unrelated images. In these series of videos she takes on all the parts: she is at the same time the actress, the camerawoman and the director. Through the editing of the images she develops a relation between two (or more) characters and the architecture. MÔWN (movies on my own) puts the spectator in the active role of creating his/her own story out of the basic principles of film editing: shot and counter-shot, the presumed continuity of movement, and the psychological suggestion of a narrative. The viewer gets invited into a game, of which he can construe the rules on the way. Out of only a few minimal elements (space, movement, character), he/she creates his/her own movie. For Subordination the invitation of Medienwerkstatt to create a video in the Kraftwerk Mitte in the context of the Berliner Liste art fair was the occasion to experiment around the notions of control and domination and to question the role of the subordinate that executes orders. (Bushwick Film Festival)