Stefanie Schneider Art

North Shore Yacht Club II (Back in the 80's) - 1999 48x46cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...

Untitled (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1456. N...

Memory Lane (Haley and the Birds) - 29 Palms, CA - 2013 50x50cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. ...

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 ...

The Girl III (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Archive Crystal Paper, matte surface, base...

Accident II (Stay) -2006 20x20cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 5444. ...

Running rings around the moon (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 50x60cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 195...

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

Palm Springs Palm Trees (Californication) - 2021 20x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist I...

Mayfair Lane, #03 (The last Picture Show) - 2004 58x56cm, Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid, Signatu...

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 Sc...

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...

Dawn (Deconstructivism) - 2015 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x24cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 20272. Signature label...

Boccia VI (Beachshoot) - 2005 38x36cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1467. Not mounted. featuring Cami...

Desert Center (Stranger than Paradise) - 2000 Edition of 10, 58x56cm Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist In...

Trade Wind (Sidewinder) 2005 58x56 cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certifica...

'Radha doing her Nails by the Pool' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 38x36cm, Edition of 30, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist Inventory Nr. ...

Daisy and Austen in front of Trailer (Till Death do Us Part) - 2005 Edition 5/5, 125x123cm each. 125x520cm installed. 4 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Cristal Archive Paper, matte surface, based on the 4 Polaroids. Artist inventory 9250.05. Signature label and certificate. Not mounted. Stefanie Schneider’s Till Death Do Us Part or “There is Only the Desert for You.” BY DREW HAMMOND Stefanie Schneider’s Til Death...

Hacienda Mobile Park (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. ...

Toy Boat (Malibu) - 2004 Edition 1/5, 39x37cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Artist inventory Number 662.01. Mounted...

'Penelope and Hans' from the movie Immaculate Springs - 1998 - Edition of 10, 50x50cm, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Digital C-Print, based on an expired Polaroid. Signature Label and Ce...

Untitled (Olancha) - 2006 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist I...

'I'm frozen in my Memory of Love that once was' (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 122x122cm, Edition 2/5, analog C-Print print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid, arti...

Lone Pine Motel (from Last Picture Show) - 2009 20x20cm, sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Art...

The Dance (Wastelands), Edition 1/5, 128x125 cm, 2003. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, based on a Polaroid, mounted on Aluminum with matte...

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

Subliminal (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007, 20x24cm, sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Inventor...

Untitled (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inventory N...

Blue Fingernails (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 - 50x50cm, Edition of 10. digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory number: 21083. Not mo...

Running with Guns (Long Way Home) - 1999, 58x56cm, published in 'Stranger than Paradise', Edition 2/10 (last available Edition). analog C-Print based on a Polaroid, hand-printed ...

Contact (Ensign Broderick record Shoot 'Blood Crush') - Bombay Beach, CA - 2019 48x46cm, Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature labe...

Four Corners (The Last Picture Show) - 2005 Edition 1/5, 58x57cm. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist on Archive Fuji Chrystal Paper, based on the original Polaroid. Artis...

Felix and Dominique (California Blue Screen) - 1997 44x59cm, sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 1/2. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Artist In...

Palm Springs E-Type (Californication) - 2021 24x20cm. Edition of 10 plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inven...

Dominique and Felix (Stranger than Paradise) - 1997 38x48cm, Edition of 30, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid Not mounted, Signature label and Certificate, artist Inventory N...

Memories (Oxana's 30th Birthday) - 2007 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inve...

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...

Playing in Heaven (Zuma Beach) - 2004 29x28cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #2...

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 (Beachshoot) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory # 1456. N...

Revisions. (Deconstructivism) - 2020 - about the narrative potential of images. 20x24cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Artist Inventory 15714. Signatur...

Red Desert (Stranger than Paradise) - 2006, 38x37cm. Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist Inven...

When we were friends (Suburbia) - 2004, 28x37cm, Edition of 10, digital C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signature label with Certificate, unmounted. The project "Suburbia" was sho...

'Red Shoes' (Stage of Consciousness) - 2007 20x24cm, sold out Edition of 10, Artist Proof 2/2, digital C-Print, based on the Polaroid, Certificate and Signature label, artist In...

Leaving in a Jet Plane (29 Palms, CA) diptych - 2005 38x36cm each, installed 38x80cm. sold out Edition of 5, Artist Proof 2/2. 2 Archival C-Prints, hand printed by the artist, ba...

Hemispheres Away (The Girl behind the White Picket Fence) - 2013 75x93cm, Edition 1/5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature...

Life on Mars (My Desert Living Project) - Hatching Edition of 10, 40x30cm, Archival C-Print. Artist inventory E007. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. Life on Mars ...

Leaving Town (Sidewinder) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Invent...

A Beautiful Day (Till Death Do Us Part) - 2007, 20x24cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist In...

Lioness (Heavenly Falls) - 2016 20x24cm, Edition 9/10. Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Certificate and signature label. Artist inventory number: 19578. Not mounted. Stefa...

Renée's Dream - The Boys (Days of Heaven). Part of the 29 Palms, CA project. - 2006, 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signat...

'Eavesdropping' (29 Palms, CA) - 1999 Edition of 10, 50x50cm. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Signature Label and Certificate. Artist inventory No. 18257. Not mounted. ...

Untitled (Olancha) - 2006, 38x37cm. Edition of 5, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Arti...

Life on Mars - 2022 - Hatching Edition of 10, 40x30cm, Archival C-Print. Artist inventory E006. Signature label and Certificate. Not mounted. 'Life on Mars' series is part of ...

The Games we played (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 20x20cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 artist proofs. Archival C-Print print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label, a...

Otherworldly (Zuma Beach) - 2004 29x28cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs. Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist Inventory #20430....

Like a Snowball down a Mountain (Stranger than Paradise) - diptych - 1998 43x59 cm each, 91x59cm installed. Edition 4/5. 2 Analog C-Prints, hand-printed by the artist, based on 2...

Lipstick (Sidewinder) - 2005 20 x 24 cm, Edition of 10, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid, signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory 3045. Not mounted. sidewinder ...