False Friends
Sylvia Schedelbauer – 2007, 4:45 min, 16mm/MiniDV, San Francisco, CA
A montage of mid-century found footage: mysterious strands are obsessively braided to create a poetic reflection about an anxious interplay of memory and projection.
Sylvia Schedelbauer is a half German-Japanese filmmaker who graduated from the University of Arts in Berlin. In her work she often deals with identities oscillating between different states of belonging. Her short films have screened at numerous festivals in Europe, and she is currently in San Francisco on a research and production grant from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).