Mirko Martin

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Street Scripts, Video Installation, 2011/12
L.A. Crash, New Photographs, 2010/11
5th Street, Video Loop, 2010
A Street Story, Documentary, 2009
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Video (HDV transferred onto DVD), sound (English), 60:50 min

The documentary A Street Story is a portrait of the homeless Phillip Saffell, who is telling his tragicomic life story: after he lost his family in the attacks on the Twin Towers on 9/11, he is now trying to get along on being an extra for movies in downtown Los Angeles. I accompanied him for several weeks on his daily routine—at his location close to the Central Library; while he was walking dogs in the suburbia; while he was drawing his crime noir comics—and listened to his often incredible stories, in which the real and the imagined seem to be interwoven in an irresolvable way.

L.A. Crash, Photo Series, 2006 - 2009
Noir, Video, 2008
Where the streets have no name, Photo Series, 2008
Flow, Video Loop, 2007
5 Photographs, 2006/07
Ocean Front Walk, Video Loop, 2006/07
The Legend of Zorro, Video Installation, 2005/06
Traffic, Video, 2005
A Speech, Video, 2005
Les Skateurs, Video, 2004
Vous-êtes allemand?, Video, 2004
Javi, Video Loop, 2003
Untitled, Photo Series, 2003