the early 70s in the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. The disciples of Beuys-school approach to grow independent artists, among them the video and performance artist Hans. In the contemporary context of Judith Barry "The sleeping girl" he is a fictional character who lives near filming around the clock. In the burgeoning video culture Hans finds the ultimate expression of his distinctive artists `- Become who you are - and an answer to that question which it between art theory and self-sacrifice still haunts even in nightmares: what is really art for now. The film we see is assembled by Hans video. A fictional film artist, then, a fake document, fake self-presentation. Hans (James Diehl) runs the video camera everywhere. He films in particular, and his portrait in the park, in the university or against white walls, which he uses for example for demonstration of cinematic framing. One day He comes to Ruth (Natalie Crane), a lost-looking young woman living in the city park. Hans takes her to, she explained to the protagonist of his videos and does not differ more from their side. As Ruth begins to realize himself as an artist to visit the scene and to bandeln with Hans' best friend Phil (Christoph Bach), it locks itself on them and in his studio. may be different than the naked pictures of Ruth, which it has in the academy to create and identify in which Hans no connection between artist and model, he would show his video art, who was the mysterious woman really . In a mad atmosphere gradually to threaten the boundaries between life and art of life dissolve.
"The sleeping girl" is paraphrase, parody, and repeal of an art. He first examines neither affirmative nor pejorative the reciprocal relationship between art and artist through the eyes of the camera of a fictional character. Kirby makes his characters ponder about philosophy, which provides the intellectual aware comic character Verbal € sufferers, and they put their theoretical skills into practice passionately. The film is deep understanding, but also a vaguely suspicious feeling for art is written. Kirby, who studied at the Dusseldorf Academy, has worked during his many films, projects or installations that include Amanda Lear and Kenneth Anger. His studies, he referred to as penetrated by the "Rudolf-Steiner-ideology."
The voice of the director stands in "The sleeping girl" never directly Kirby makes his film Hans' film to be. And yet he motivates the audience to a conservative value judgments, to an awareness of what art can do and what they can not. And maybe what they should not be. The project of Hans, the truth "of his" Ruth to explore means of video document is bound to fail. Art can not depict what life really is, and they can not investigate an ultimatum. When Hans insecure and helpless must recognize that Ruth is not the man he believed to find trial-like, he has no alternative but to adopt from the focus of his camera. Is this a rejection of art - or is it just the beginning of their emotional collection? An extremely fascinating film.
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