Mirko Martin
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Works
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Eagle, Video, 2012
Street Scripts, Video Installation, 2011/12
The Legacy of the Dead, Video Installation, 2011/12
L.A. Crash, Photo Series, since 2006
5th Street, Video Loop, 2010
A Street Story, Documentary, 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
MacArthur Park, Photo Series, 2006
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

Street Scripts
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10-channel monitor Installation (16:9), color, sound (English), ca. 104 min TRT, 2011/12
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For this video work I asked homeless people on Downtown Los Angeles' Skid Row, what kind of movie they would make if they had all the means they wanted and complete artistic freedom. The interviews were conducted in the library of the Midnight Mission, one of numerous missions downtown, with the assistance of one of the mission's case managers. The streets downtown are used as a filming location by the movie industry on a daily basis. By interviewing people on site, I wanted to add marginal stories to Hollywood's fictions—by homeless authors, who can claim street credibility when telling their real or imagined stories. For the exhibition context I selected 10 out of about 30 conducted interviews. Each story is presented on its own monitor.