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Kenya
video, 9 min, 2001

A videowork between documentary and fiction about the 23 year old security guard Kenya.
The "documentary" mixes the life story of Kenya with the actress’ interpretations and imagination of Kenya’s life. The work not only focuses on the question of what is documentary and what is fiction, what is real, what is projection and interpretation, but also on the working process and the integration or infiltration of the actresses’ character into Kenya’s story.
The film focuses on how Kenya deals with the fact that her husband disappeared one day mysteriously and left her alone (explaining in a letter weeks later that he had to go back to Africa to take care of his family), her thoughts about relationships, marriage and her dreams and hopes in her career and personal life (becoming a model, actress or dancer).

Concept: Heidrun Holzfeind. Camera: Ruth Kaaserer. Editing: Heidrun Holzfeind, Reynold Reynolds. Cast: Nafeesha Pasha, Myriam Myika Day. Music: Jay-Z, Lil’ Kim, Outkast

Kenya working at the New York Auto Show, 2000; two C prints, 8x10"

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