Permanent Residents

Permanent Residents

Isabell Spengler

DE / US
2005
Short film
9’
Focus

Permanent Residents combines lavish costume design with a documentary-style depiction of everyday events in the contemporary urban space of Los Angeles. In compositionally polished framings, an imaginary space of a collective world of imagination opens up on the side of the viewer, a space in which motifs of popular culture, myths, and social fictions reverberate.

Film Series Kaleidoscorpse

Director / Cinematography / Editing

Isabell Spengler

Cast

Jessica Erker, Theresa Franklin, Andreas Ramani, Jennifer Sindon, John Williams u. a.

Contact

Isabell Spengler

Isabell Spengler

Isabell Spengler, born in Berlin 1972, studied at the University of the Arts in Berlin and at California Institute of the Arts. She has been teaching at various art colleges and universities in Germany and North America, most notably at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she taught experimental film as a lecturer (2004-2010) and as a guest professor (2012-2014) in the Department for Art and Media. Her films, video installations, photography, and performances have been exhibited internationally at film festivals and in exhibitions since 1998.


Films by Isabell Spengler (Selection)
Two Days at the Falls 2015 | Inside the Tiger 2014 | Vater, Mutter, was soll ich heute filmen? 2012 | Osmosis of the Unicorn 2009 | LINT LENT LAND 2009 | The Pitch 2008 | Syncpoint 2007 | Mummy 2006 | Balls 2003 | Psychic Tequila Tarot 1998