Stefanie Schneider Art

Reload! - I changed my mind (Wastelands) - 2003 Edition 2/5, 57x56cm, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, Artist invent...

Hallway III (Suburbia) - 2004, 20x24cm, Edition of 1/10, digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, Not mounted. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 430.01. This pro...

Frenzy (Sidewinder) - 2005 125x156cm, Edition 5/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive paper, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 3048.05, Not mounted. This piece was used by the Salzburger Festspiele 2008 for the main image campaign. Stefanie Schneider, Sidewinder Exhibit • Galeries of the City of Salzburg • Galerie am Mozartplatz July 16 – August 29, 2008 “For love is as strong as death” – this motto, taken from King Salomon’s Song of Songs, is at the programmatic center of the Salzburg Festival...

Desert Bike Biscuits riding in the Folly of Illusions (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x24cm, Edition of 10. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature la...

'Untitled (Oilfields), 2004, 60x60cm, Edition 3/10. Analog C-Print, based on the original Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #1206.03. Not mounted. O...

The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 13866. Not mounted. Offered is a piece from the movie: The Girl behind the White Picket Fence A tale told with blemished and expired Polaroid film about the hopes and dreams of an newly orphaned girl after loosing her parents who lived in Californian desert in an vintage Spartan travel-trailer . -filmed with Polaroid film stock and Super-8 footage, overlaid with poetic voice over monoloque - this feature film creates a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick, Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girls journal (Palms Springs life magazine / Caroline Ryder) Stefanie Schneider By Caroline Ryder Travel up a bumpy dirt road in Morongo Valley, the trail strewn with rocks, and you’ll come upon a gigantic 1950s trailer in pristine condition, ringed by a white picket fence, with cottontail rabbits hopping among neat little rose bushes that bloom in spite of the broiling desert heat. Inside the trailer are period accents—a vintage radio, vintage fridge, little crocheted doilies and dusty gilt-framed photographs. It’s a surreal home-sweet-home, an Americana fantasy as imagined by German artist and experimental filmmaker Stefanie Schneider whose work is so inspired by the desert landscape, she made it her home in 2005. “There’s a completely different light here than in Germany, a beautiful light,” says Schneider, whose 10 acre property in Morongo is dotted with vintage trailers. They surround her midcentury home, and serve as sets for her photo shoots or as guest lodgings for her friends from Hollywood and Berlin. “But what I really love about the desert is the desolation,” she continues. “The sense of hope for something that might or might not come. It’s easy to see our dreams projected in the desert.” Famed for shooting trailer park chic fine art photographs exclusively on vintage Polaroid film, Schneider recently completed her most ambitious project to date—a feature film made entirely of Polaroid stills (4000 images in total), the story set around her magnificent 1950s trailer. The film, called “The Girl Behind The White Picket Fence” tells the story of a broken-hearted girl who lives in the trailer. Her name is Heather, and she is played by model Heather Megan Christie, girlfriend of actor Joaquin Phoenix, and former partner of Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, with whom she has a son. Heather stars opposite Kyle Larson (who plays ‘Hank’), a real-life gypsy fisherman who catches crab in Alaska when he’s not surfing in Southern California. Neither of the two had ever acted before, and never in the history of movie making has a director shot a film entirely on Polaroid film. “There was great difficulty shooting a film this way,” says Schneider, who, with her long straight hair, wide innocent eyes and thick-framed glasses, conjures an art-house Gretel. “If I had used a regular camera I would have had 36 exposures per minute, much faster and easier than using the old Polaroid camera which takes a long time to shoot one frame. Also, sometimes it doesn’t shoot at the exact moment you think it’s going to—but that’s really great because then you miss the perfect moment…and often those are the best shots.” Individually, the Polaroid photographs that comprise 29 PALMS, CA stand alone, but together and in sequence, filmed with super 8 and 16mm film stock and overlaid with poetic voice-over monologues, they create a dynamic kaleidoscope of words and pictures, a dreamy tale that channels Terrence Malick. Gus Van Sant, and pages torn from a lonely girl’s journal. The idea to shoot a movie in this way came about in 2004, when Schneider was working with leading German director Mark Forster (Monster’s Ball, Finding Neverland, Quantum of Solace) on his film Stay. She had met Forster at director Wim Wender’s birthday party in Hollywood. A few years later, Forster asked Schneider to shoot Polaroids of scenes from Stay as he filmed; he used those photographs for dream and memory sequences in the movie. For the first time, Schneider saw her Polaroids strung together in sequence, moving with rhythm like a flipbook, in the context of a story. When Forster urged her to consider making a feature film using that technique, the seed of 29 PALMS, CA was sown. She mentioned the idea to her good friend German actor Udo Kier, who also gave the idea a big thumbs up, and agreed to play the part of a mysterious shaman in the film. Thanks to her strong reputation in the art world and her Hollywood connections, getting talented people on board was the easy part (for a while, Charlotte Gainsbourg was pegged to play the starring role, although she pulled out two weeks before shooting commenced because she was pregnant and not fit to travel to the desert.) The hard part was finding the perfect trailer—and bringing it to the desert. “This trailer almost killed us,” says Schneider’s partner Lance Waterman, who lives and works with Schneider in Morongo Valley. After finding it on eBay, the couple drove to Utah to pick it up, the plan being to tow it all the way back to the high desert themselves. Bad idea. “We were driving down a hill with this enormous trailer behind us when we realized that if we wanted to stop, there would be no way to do so without the trailer crushing us,” says Waterman. Adds Schneider: “Lance was even giving me instructions on how to jump out of the truck, if we needed to.” Thankfully the road leveled and as soon as they were able to slow down and pull over, they called a professional towing company, which transported the trailer the remaining distance to Morongo Valley. Filming took place in Spring 2011 and 2012. Schneider recently submitted the film to major film festivals in Europe and the US, and it will be broadcast in 2013 by leading German television channel, Arte. While Schneider may come from a long tradition of photographers-turned-filmmakers—Stanley Kubrick started out as a photographer, as did Ken Russell (Tommy, Women in Love...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The Last Picture Show - 2004 50x50cm. Edition of 5, and 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artis...

Childhood Memories (Stay), from Ryan Gosling's memory sequence - 2006 58x56cm, Edition of 5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, matte surfa...

A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 60x80cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist ...

Zabriskie Point (Stranger than Paradise) - PART IV - 2003 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. ...

'Radha Pink' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 38x36cm, Edition of 30, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #616...

Vivienne VII (Desert Nudes) - 2016 - 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature l...

Actor Girl - part I (29 Palms, CA) - 2008, 60x75cm, Edition 1/5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte surface, based on a Polaroid. Sign...

Skydive (Vegas) - 1999 Edition of 10, 50x60cm, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #541. Not moun...

'Oilfields I' (Stranger than Paradise), 1999, 60x60cm, Edition 5/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory Nr. 1214.05, not mounte...

Soraya, the foreign Princess (The Princess and her Lover) part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label a...

Orange Flowered Couch at Sunset (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition 1/10, 20x20cm, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Artist inventory Number 19762 Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider:...

Shells (Wastelands) Edition 2/5, 57x56cm, 2003 Analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, Artist inventory Number ...

'A Memory' (Strange Love) - 2010, 20x24cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, signature label and certificate, artist Inventory No. 6131.01, Not mounted. “I nev...

Landed (Long Way Home) - 1999, 50x50cm, Edition of 25, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory #834. No...

The other day I was sure I knew what is good and what is bad (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based o...

Indian Summer II (The Last Picture Show) - 2005, 128x125cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, mounted ...

'Small Town Love' (Last Picture Show), 2006, 20x20cm, Edition 3/10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory No 1029.15, not mounted ...

Clothesline (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 from the 29 Palms, CA Project 70x90cm, Edition of 5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, matte s...

The Dancer (Stay), 2006, 37x36cm, Edition of 2/5, Lambda Print, based on a Stefanie Schneider expired Polaroid photograph Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory Nr. 5315.10...

A Vision you can't Capture (29 Palms, CA) - 2007 125x172cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, signatur...

'The Patriot' (Haley and the Birds) 2013, 128x125cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Crystal Fuji Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and sign...

Untitled (Oilfields), triptych, 2004, 60x60cm each, installed 60x200cm, Edition 6/10. 3 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist based on 3 original Polaroids. Certificate and ...

Untitled (Oilfields) - 2004 50x50cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory # 1201. Not mounted. OILFIELDS, 2004 ...

The Fabric of the Mind I (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. A...

'Untitled' (Oilfields) 2004, - diptych. Edition of 10, plus 2 artist Proofs. 20x20cm each, installed with gaps 20x43cm, 2 Archival C-Prints, based on 2 expired Polaroids. Signat...

Radha doing her Nails by the Pool (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 126x125cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label,...

A piece of art from the movie 'Stay' by Stefanie Schneider Stefanie created the art for both main actors Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling in the movie 'Stay' directed by Marc Forster. S...

'Untitled II' (Cricket on the Nose Scene) from the 29 Palms, CA series - 2009 56x56cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid signed on verso,...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 78x77cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artis...

Salton Sea Life (American Depression) - 1999 58x56cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. 1 analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label an...

Untitled (Train tracks) - The Last Picture Show - 2004 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Art...

Untitled (Traintracks) - The last Picture Show - 2004 40x39ccm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...

Clothesline (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 from the 29 Palms, CA Project 70x90cm, Edition of 5. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, matte s...

Max in front of Motel (29 Palms, CA) - diptych Edition of 10, 67x60 each, 67x125cm installed with white 'Polaroid' frame. 2 analog C-Prints, based on 2 Polaroids. Mounted on Alu...

'Radha Pink' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 130x128cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2 (last), analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a...

Vegas (Stranger than Paradise) - 2000 38x47cm, Edition of 30, Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory #537. Not mounted. THE GREAT...

'Untitled' (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition 5/5, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory #6595.05, Not mounted. ...

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - 2005, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invento...

LAST EDITION 'Radha Pink' (29 Palms, CA), 1999, 58x56cm, Edition 7/10, Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, not mounted,...

'Today, good is bad II' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) 2013, 20x24cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Invento...

Inclined (Wastelands), 2003 Edition of 1/10, 38x37cm, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory No 1185.01 Not mounted. Offered is a p...

'Hemispheres Away' (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence), 75x93cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed and enlarged by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a ...

Lollipop (Beachshoot) 80x80cm, Edition 4/5, 2005. Analog C-Print, hand-Printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, a...

Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's ...

'Untitled' (Oilfields) 2004, 60x60cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory No 119...

Kelly (Beachshoot) - 2005 80x80cm, Edition 3/5, analog C-Print, hand-Printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, matte finish, based on a Polaroid. Certificate and signatu...

Oilfields I (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999, 60x60cm, Edition 5/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...

Burning (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2015, 20x20cm, Edition 8/10. Archival Print based on a Polaroid. Artist Inventory 16077. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider liv...

'Untitled' (Oilfields) 2004, 128x126cm each, installed with gaps 125x260cm, Edition 2/3, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, signed on verso, artist ...

Flower (29 Palms, CA), 1999, 20x20cm, Edition 1/10, digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label artist Inventory No. 197639, not mounted THE GREATER TH...

Untitled (Oilfields) 2004, 60x60cm, Edition 2/10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signed on back with Certificate. Artist Inventory No. 1211.02. Unm...

Copper Penny Sunday School (Sidewinder) 2005, Edition of 4/5, 125x154cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signed on back. artist Inventory No. 3056.0...