Over the past decade or so, the German artist Gabriele Stellbaum, who lives and works in Berlin, has become known for severe narrative films and installations that often have a distinctly dystopian, Orwellian air. Stellbaum is director, cinematographer, script writer, editor and usually the only actor in her films. Speaking in English with a slight German accent, she cuts a striking figure on the screen, with stylish bobbed hair and clothes that come from an earlier 20th-century era.
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