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Films by Isabell Spengler


Program A (39’)


Permanent Residents, 2005, 9’30


The Pitch, 2008, 16’30

By the end of the pitch it becomes clear that by folding the description and the performative illustration of the film‘s story into one another, the film is completed during the act of pitching.


Syncpoint, 2007, 4’

Translating a musical stage performance by the feministic group “Larry Peacock” into the language of film Central to this experimental music video is the image of the synchronization-point as a hole, derived from the film-technical synchronization method of punching a hole into the first exposed and keycode-numbered frame of a roll of film prior to its transfer to video.


Lint Lent Land, 2009, 9’


Program B, 42’


Mummy, 2006, 2’30

“Mumminess mothering moms and mothers meeting and moving around with little shadows and ghosts of children enveloped in momminess wrapped up in babycarriages and sheets or going places and being taken around. A street scene viewed from a window.” (Ida Wilde)


Psychic Tequila Tarot, 1998, 24’

Taking the form of an episodic road movie, the fictive autobiography of the self proclaimed fortune-teller Leila unfolds. Having escaped her all too liberal parental home, Leila tries to fill her inner emptiness by projecting the wishes and problems of other people onto herself. On a trip through California, she invites complete strangers to a free tequila tarot card reading in her car, using her identification with the Other as stranger to find a way to her self, or equally to flee from her self.


Transformation in the Land of Enchantment, 2003, 5’30

On vacation in Texas three women find themselves mysteriously transformed. After crossing the Rio Grande, they make contact with the local cowboys.


The Natural Life of Mermaids, 2004, 10’

Biological educational movie about the mermaids at Lake Havasu, Arizona, USA, with exceptional amateur footage and eye witnesses accounts of this rare to be seen mythical species.