Merchants Freely Enter

Merchants Freely Enter explores new technologies to capture images and their impact on sight, representation and control on western landscape and nature. The picture and sound collage navigates through a world of an arcane imagination (costumes and masks), archaic appropriation (agriculture) and digital empowerment (drone mounted cameras). Similar to a visual archaeology of the future- the film calibrates the sight into an ongoing interplay between attraction and rejection.

Merchants Freely Enter was supported by Kunststiftung NRW.

Film Credits:
Performer: Ella CB, Inga Danysz, Jonny Isaak, Klaus Weiler
Cinematography: Nicolas C. Geissler
Sound and Music: Filip Caranica / Contemporary Sound Producer / Colour Grading: Patrick Alan Banfield

Reviews and texts:
Imagination Machine, published in SchirnMag 2017, Text by Daniel Urban
https://www.schirn.de/en/magazine/context/double_feature_ani_schulze_merchants_freely_enter_screening/

Conversation between Ani Schulze and Katharina Dohm, Kunsthalle Schirn, 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sM78_KfAfk0

Under the Jaguar Sun
Text by Dorothee Mosters, 2017 (German)
http://anischulze.net/texts.html#underthejaguarsun

Conversation between Ani Schulze and Helene Romakin, artfridge, 2018
http://www.artfridge.de/2018/08/interview-ani-schulze.html