Jeanne Faust - to IV

Color photograph / photo cardboard, signed and dated "07" on the reverse; 23.5 x 30 on 28 x 35.5. Edition of the Griffelkunst Association, Hamburg. Griffelkunst Edition List 325 C6.
Jeanne Faust calls the photographs that are created in connection with her film work “Zubilder” (“images”). They give the impression of film stills – as if they were taken directly from the flow of the respective film. But the images represent special stagings of film scenes that do not appear there. For the Griffelkunst edition, the artist has selected six photographs that were created during the shooting of six different films. The last image in the series shows a scene that could be at the end of Film IV, but is no longer seen in the film: A woman leans against a window frame, her gaze directed towards a point outside the picture. Her figure is reflected as a black silhouette in the window glass. The window frame creates an image within the image, in which the blurred, glowing image of a projection on a screen can be seen. The glaring light of the film projector in the foreground expands the scene by another image level and assigns the viewer his point of view outside the scene. In this shot, Jeanne Faust gives an insight into the mise en scène of her photographs, the play of overlays and framing that refer beyond the actual picture frame to the before and after of each image.