Photo-Apparatchik Recollectice

Director: Franz Wanner    → show biography   ← hide biography

Biography: Franz Wanner, born in 1975, finished his training as a photographer and filmmaker before studying fine arts and media theory at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste München (Academy of Fine Arts, Munich). Texts, photo series, films, and objects have been published under the pseudonym Franz Wanner since 1996. In his book The Presumption (2011) they appear as the plot of a nonlinear screenplay. In 2012 he received the City of Munich’s Scholarship for Fine Arts. Since then he has been working on the narrative cycle Toxin – Antitoxin. Clinical Pictures of a Town, which was shown for the first time in 2013 at the Museum für Photographie Braunschweig. Since 2009, Franz Wanner has lectured at several universities and teaching institutions in the fields of fine art and film.

Country: Germany

Year: 2007

Synopsis: Photographic transgressions in a Belgrade arcade. Whereas passersbay in the darkness can be recognized only in vague outlines, identifiable faces flash through our visual memory. In the form of damaged passport photographs they seem like fragments of a collective that has disintegrated. What do those portrayed have to do with the passersby? Is it possible to recognize echoes of a socialist hymn in this drafty passageway? Are the appearances projection, illusion, or hallucination? Or is this the short-circuiting of a passport photo machine?

Language: without dialogue