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Stefanie Schneider
My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter

1999

$400
£299.92
€347.71
CA$558.22
A$623.48
CHF 323.98
MX$7,592.76
NOK 4,115.27
SEK 3,877.77
DKK 2,594.35
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My own private Travel Diary - Bishop, CA - Winter - 2001, 20x29cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid Slide. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. 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.

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