
Loretta Fahrenholz
The half-dozen films Loretta Fahrenholz has made to date employ the filmic forms of a wide range of genres as they engage with particular social coteries (from art students sharing a flat in Leipzig to New York street dancers) whose group dynamics, codes, and visual markers Fahrenholz abstracts and extrapolates into highly aestheticized portraits. Staging systems rather than story lines, vocabularies rather than dialogue, and bodies rather than subjects, her films bring a merciless perspective to the language games and body languages through which power relations are