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Stefanie SchneiderWind Power (California Badlands) - Polaroid, Contemporary, Desert, Dream2009
2009
About the Item
Wind Power (California Badlands) - 2021
24x34cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory No. 4595.
Not mounted.
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen.
“It was Stefanie Schneider, who inspired me to start the company THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT after seeing her work, which seems to achieve the possible from the impossible, creating the finest of art out of the most basic of mediums and materials. Indeed, after that one day, I was so impressed with her photography that I realized Polaroid film could not be allowed to disappear. Being at the precise moment in time where the world was about to lose Polaroid, I seized the moment and have put all my efforts and passion into saving Polaroid film. For that, I thank Stefanie Schneider almost exclusively, who played a bigger role than anyone in saving this American symbol of photography.”
–Florian Kaps, March 8th 2010 (“Doc” Dr. Florian Kaps, founder of “The Impossible Project”)
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence
A film by Stefanie Schneider
Polaroid stills, Super-8 footage, poetic monologue
Color / 76 min / USA / Experimental Narrative
Set in the heat-blurred landscape of the California desert, The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence is Stefanie Schneider’s haunting feature-length dreamscape—a coming-of-age story told through the decaying beauty of expired Polaroid film and whispering Super-8 fragments. At the center is a young orphaned woman, newly adrift after the death of her parents, inhabiting a vintage Spartan trailer like a ghost caught between memory and longing.
Schneider, known internationally for her singular ability to capture the ephemeral with expired instant film, builds an atmospheric poem in motion. Her visuals bleed and blur, mirroring the fragility of time, identity, and place. The voiceover—fragmented, intimate, and evocative—guides us like pages from a private diary or intercepted transmissions from a drifting soul.
Shot over several years with a rotating cast of muses and non-actors, and unfolding without conventional plot, the film resists traditional narrative structure. Instead, it channels emotional truth through visual texture—sunlight spilling over cracked surfaces, skin rendered in haloes of fading color, the Polaroid’s inherent vulnerability echoing the protagonist’s own.
Rather than nostalgia, Schneider’s approach evokes an altered reality—an alternate history of cinema itself—where the raw physicality of analog film speaks more eloquently than dialogue ever could. Her work engages in a quiet conversation with avant-garde cinema, echoing the poetic rhythms of Maya Deren, the existential openness of Chantal Akerman, and the tone poems of early Gus Van Sant. Yet it is unmistakably her own voice.
The Girl Behind the White Picket Fence is not a film to be watched so much as absorbed—experienced in the gut. It is a meditation on loss, transformation, and female interiority. It’s also a rare example of an artist refusing to separate their photographic and cinematic practices. Every frame is a painting. Every edit, a heartbeat.
Schneider’s desert is not just a place—it’s a psychological terrain, a container for everything that cannot be said in words.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2009
- Dimensions:Height: 9.45 in (24 cm)Width: 13.39 in (34 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:Seller: STSCH #0431stDibs: LU652316368912
Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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