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"It is a fine thing to see that, despite their obvious impossibility, teasing, ambiguous images of non-identity could exist. The three films which Rosemarie Trockel showed in the German pavilion of the 1999 Venice Biennial Exhibition and which are the subiect of this book allow us to see that. How? Perhaps because they address the problematic of so-called femininity and pose the associated questions of non-identity.
The film Sleepingpill shows coming, resting and going in a public' dormitory whose interior and exterior architecture was especially designed and realized for the film by Rosemarie Trockel, in cooperation with Tim Power.
The film Kinderspielplatz fails to provide any indirect representation of time like today's action films frantically still try to do. Instead, it confronts viewers with a direct presentation of time.
The film Eye forms an intermediate link, an intermezzo which unsettles and diverts the temporal relations in the other two films which could be identified with atmospheres of future and past. It evokes an apparent being-seen although no gaze can be fixated, nor is the viewer transfixed by a gaze, such as the observing gaze of power.". Extract from the Pre-Setting by Wilfried Dickhoff
