Blue Box Blues
- Blue Box Blues (Staging a Photo Shoot), 2004
Staging a Photo Shoot
Michael Brynntrup
Germany 2004
DV, colour, sound, 7 min. 40 sec.
15 times queer crossover: Lesbian filmmakers from Berlin were asked to shoot a short film about their ideas of gay male love and sexuality – and gay male filmmakers were in turn asked to shoot a short film about lesbian sexuality or erotics.
In his contribution BLUE BOX BLUES, Michael Brynntrup sheds light on the difference between the illusionist gesture of photography and the production process itself.
By reconstructing the original procedures behind a photograph, which shows a pair of lesbian lovers in a tender embrace and suggests trust and intimacy, Michael Brynntrup manages to uncover stereotyped reception patterns which come back to the staging of the photograph: The message of the photo stands in striking contrast to the serenely routinized and prolonged staging of the image in the sterile atmosphere of a blue box studio, attended to by numerous personnel.
BLUE BOX BLUES becomes a media critical document of a market structure that attaches complexes of feeling to an industrial process of valuation.
