As If Memories Could Deceive Me

Name: As If Memories Could Deceive Me
Released: 01 Jan 1986
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In As if Memories Could Deceive Me, a piano keyboard, symbol of German bourgeois tradition, is the metaphorical ground upon which Odenbach devises a dynamic associative discourse on the construction of personal and cultural identity. A haunted theater of collective and subjective memory is constructed from archival film and mass media representations. Signifiers of German history and cultural heritage — Wagnerian opera, Hitler's rallies, the Nuremberg trials, Bavarian folk dancers — are orchestrated and conjoined on the screen with male fashion iconography and autobiographical references. From ornate, 19th-century Baroque architecture to a contemporary menswear emporium, the artist traces an historical trajectory of cultural excess. Confronting his bourgeois German past, Odenbach achieves a personal history that questions the construction of identity within this cultural context.

Year: 1986

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Director: Marcel Odenbach

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Crew: Marcel Odenbach (Director), Marcel Odenbach (Editor)

Runtime: 18 minutes

Release: Jan 01, 1986

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