Artist: Pia Rönicke (DK)
Genre: Art Film
Denmark, 2003 / 21 min (DVCam and Animation),
colour & sound

The Film
The storyboard for the film collides with ideas of an urban plan, where the urban fiction becomes the point of interest. An everyday urban subject narrates different urban ideologies. You find him sitting in a café, going to the Laundromat, driving through the city, sitting in a park. The urban ideologies take form around a ’conversation’ between Le Corbusier and Constant - with no defined borders of what statement belongs to one or the other. This conversation develops into an undefined territory of new statements about the urban landscape. The storyboard of the film shifts between the activities of the urban subject and the drawings, and the mapping of the urban ideologies. The activities of the urban subject become a text of different ideologies, and the mapping of the city a landscape for the urban fiction to take place. The structure of the film borrows parts from Godard’s Masculin-Féminin (1966). The »conversation« between two subjects is represented as poles, redrawn and repulsed by each other, unable to exist without the other. As Constant could not exist without Le Corbusier, and as the latter could not be defined as the master without a revolting other.
Text: Pia Rönicke

Pia Rönicke
Pia Rönicke (b. 1974 in Roskilde, Denmark) studied at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Art . 1995-1999 and at the Californian Institute of the Arts 1999-2001.