Desert Miracles
Miriam Gossing und Lina Sieckmann
Desert Miracles is a cinematic exploration of a commercialised architecture of desire. Across a range of 22 tableaus, the film meditates on the interiors of various wedding chapels in Nevada, USA. A woman’s voice is heard reading out an ambiguous letter to an unknown lover in which she finds herself troubled by the challenges of modern relationships and unable to negotiate a balance between self-fulfilment and optimisation. The text is based on anonymous posts by different women on various internet wedding forums.
Miriam Gossing und Lina Sieckmann
As a duo, Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann have directed severeal experimental films on 16mm, exploring the limits between documentary and fiction while focusing on private and urban architectures, excessively designed spaces, and surfaces of desire. Their work is shown internationally in exhibitions and film festivals (International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Anthology Film Archives New York City, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart Berlin, Julia Stoschek Collection, a. o.).
Films by Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann
One Hour Real 2017 | Ocean Hill Drive 2016 | Desert Miracles 2015 | Sonntag, Büscherhöfchen 2 2014
