HANS & GRETE
Credits
2-Channel Video Installationstarring
Kip/Seth: Travis Jeppesen
Kathleen/Sean: Lena Lauzemis
Fluffy: as himself
Voice of Fluffy: Lily and Esther Smith
crew
Camera / Lighting: Shai Levy
1st A.D.: Alex McQuilken
Audio Technician: Vicky Cohn
Special FX: Allister Mazzotti / Mazzotti Action
Still Photographer: Tina Bruser
Location Scout / Boom: Nicola Hochkeppel
Best Boy: Lars White
Location Transportation: Min Hoe Park
Foley, Soundtrack, and Instrumentals written by Rob Christiansen
monologues
written by Alissa Bennett
music
Kathleen's 4-Track Demo: music by Rob Christiansen, lyrics by Alissa Bennett
Production Coordinator: Ute Zimmermann
Casting: Teresa Go, Gerrit Grigoleit, Min Hoe Park
Additional Production Assistance: Benjamin von Reiche, Paul Stoop, Marie Unger
Offline edit at Lizard Medienproduktion, Berlin
Online edit at Cine-Plus, Berlin
Online editor: Martin Eberle
Filmed at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2002
'Hans & Grete' produced at the American Academy in Berlin, with support from Philip Morris Kunstforderung.
Additional support provided by Cine-Plus, Berlin.
Special thanks to the American Academy in Berlin, the Kunstlerhaus Bethanian, Alissa Bennett, Dennis Cooper, Marlene McCarty, David Ross, Jordu Schell, Volker Schlondorff, Gary Smith, and Charlie White.
run time: 39 minutes
First exhibited at
Postmasters Gallery, New York, 2003
Kunst Werke, Berlin, Sept 2003-Jan 2004
the Whitney Biennial, March-June 2004
Zur Vorstellung des Terrors: Die RAF, Kunst Werke: Berlin, Germany, Feb-May, 2005, and the Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum: Graz, Austria, June-Aug 2005
Museo Rufino Tamiyo.Mexico City, Mexico, 2006
2002
Runtime: 41:06 Minutes
Excerpt from: Bruce Hainley’s ‘Teen Angle, the Art of Sue de Beer’, Artforum January, 2004
Witnessing one of Sue de Beer's goth girls intone I'm gonna erase myself and you're gonna find me everywhere, anyone might consider such states of mind to be a recent phenomenon - psychic rumblings "explaining" Columbine or Lee Malvo. Yet America has long trafficked in the gothic, been intimate with suicide, doom and destruction. Long before Poe drugged the conciousness with haunted narratives of the nothingness residing at the cold, dark heart of things, and Hawthorne allegorized the civil state as Dr. Rappaccini keeping his child alive by rearing her on poison, Puritan preacher Jonathan Edwards put the populace in the hands of an angry God, spidery sinners dangling between heaven and the ready fires of hell. Today, television necromancer John Edward may try to provide solace instead of burning brimstone, but lets not forget he's allowing anyone who wishes to communicate with the dead: The medium is the message, and the message is that we're all caught crossing over, in between.