Invisible Things

During the end of the semester, on an ordinary day, Neen shared her feelings with her only close friend.

17 year old Kate Daniels is no stranger to the world of mental illness, but when the problems of those around her start to pile up, she realizes that maybe they aren't the ones she should be worrying about. After her sister is diagnosed with OCD, Kate and her family need to make some changes. Kate's journey introduces audiences to issues like alcoholism, depression, and finally suicide

Adolescents in the amphibious situation between child and adult try to cope with their emotions and their environment. Right there they would need limits, a foothold and hope and yet they signalize the opposite. Between loss, extinct love, parental problems and their own needs the parent generation tries to understand or at least to save something.

After the turmoil of the Civil War, grieving families sought spiritual connection to their departed. Certain clairvoyants claimed the ability to photograph the dead.

The video work Authentic News of Invisible Things is inspired directly by archive footage taken in the French City of Lille in 1918 which depicts a group of civilians gathered around a dummy tank abandoned by the retreating German army. Recreating and filming the historical scene in black and white, she pulls back switching to colour to reveal the cinematographer's devices. This contemporary footage is then interlaced with the original to create a complex dialogue between layers of reality, fiction and staging that simultaneously corroborate and mock one another. The effect is a reassuring distance between the observer and the image; a distance that the artist undermines in a further channel of video when a real tank is driven into the streets of the sleepy Italian town of Bolzano and the reactions of local inhabitants is recorded. This final gesture takes the work full circle, creating real encounters between people and an actual war machine but without the context of battle.