STARDOM
Panorama
What makes someone a real star? On charisma, aspirations and a sense of rhythm, but also on the obsession, frustration ad jealousy involved in wanting to become a real star.
I’M A BOYBAND
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
VIDEO / 00:05:00 / GERMANY/CANADA / 2002
What are the ingredients for a real boyband – a cute tune, dance moves and of course 4 handsome hunks, each with their own look.
MY AUNT SUPERSTAR
Igor Sevcuk
VIDEO / 00:03:00 / THE NETHERLANDS / 2002
A sympathetic portrait of an aunt as a superstar on the basis of old photographs.
OVER THE RAINBOW
Taryn FitzGerald
VIDEO / 00:07:00 / USA / 2001Playing with ideas on identity and refraction, Over the Rainbow combines expansive images of mirrored rainbows and waterfalls with answering machine massages from people responding to an ad for look-alikes.
LOOK-ALIKE # 23: ROBERT DE NIRO
Taryn FitzGerald
VIDEO / 00:02:24 / USA / 2001
LOOK-ALIKE # 22: PRINCE CHARLES
Taryn FitzGerald
VIDEO / 00:05:24 / USA / 2001
Look-alikes 2001-2002 is a series of short video portraits exploring the psyches of everyday people who consider themselves look-alikes of the stars or who are often mistaken for them.
LIVE TO TELL
Benny Nemerofsky Ramsay
VIDEO / 00:06:30 / GERMANY/CANADA / 2002
Madonna’s Live to tell performed in an empty office building and recorded by surveillance cameras.
DIVA
Ivan Civic
VIDEO / 00:05:00 / GERMANY / 2001
Why are some women divas and not others? Civic asks his mother for her opinion.
POPSTAR
Roger Atasi
VIDEO / 00:01:23 / PERU / 2002
A telling, recognisable portrait of a busker on the subway.
LOOK-ALIKE #8: BETTY PAGE
Taryn FitzGerald
VIDEO / 00:05:27 / USA / 2001
LOOK-ALIKE #27: TORI SPELLING
Taryn FitzGerald
VIDEO / 00:07:00 / USA / 2001
Looking at individual identity within our culture’s preoccupation with celebrity, the series focuses on notions of images and reality, the visible and the invisible, as well as the complex negotiation between self acceptance and self alienation.