Like a Dream
(74 minutes, 2024)
Third Space screening - December 1st, 2024
Images Vevey Biennale - September 7th -29th, 2024
Roxy Cinema screening - June 21st, 2024
apartamento - short film about the making of
An experimental and parodic film, Like a Dream retraces Marianna Rothen's 17-year career in modeling. After becoming a photographer/ filmmaker, she spent three years making
this autobiographical behind-the-scenes feature film. The film tells the humorous story of a teenager who left home in the late 1990s to become an international model. Through bizarre,
caricatured stagings, Rothen embodies the figure of the "Young Girl". Her character, confronted by an environment obsessed with perfection, faces abuse of power and depression.
Creating a mise en abyme, the Canadian artist moves among a multitude of plastic mannequins. She animates them like puppets in scenes evoking this dream life. Demystifying the
glamour of catwalks and glossy magazine pages, Like a Dream functions as an intimate diary and authentic testimony to an experience lived between dream and reality.
TRAILER:
PHOTOGRAPHS:
Two girls from Russia (Taipei), 2004
Backstage, first fashion show (Toronto), self-portrait, 1997
At my parent’s house, after my first photoshoot (Bolton), self-portrait, 1997
On my way to Milan, 2001
Getting ready to meet Steven Meisel (48th street, New York), self-portrait, 1998
Sex, hotel room (Milan), 2001
Tokyo photographer, 2000
Twins (Paris), 2002
Miss Tennessee (Taipei), 2004
Girl from Siberia #1 (Taipei), 2004
Bella Engaged, 2001
With Bella (East Village, New York), self-portrait, 2001
Olga shows me around the model apartment (Tokyo), 2000
Olga’s Bed (Tokyo), 2000