Nan Goldin. I'll Be Your Mirror

Der selten gezeigte, 1995 von Nan Goldin in Kooperation mit dem britischen Filmemacher Edmund Coulthard realisierte, autobiografische Dokumentarfilm rekonstruiert in einer Montage aus Interviewsequenzen mit Weggefährt_innen und Stills von Goldins Fotografien das außergewöhnliche Leben der Künstlerin und die Entstehung eines einzigartigen Generationenporträts – dazu liefert der Soundtrack Titel von The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, Television, Eartha Kitt und vielen anderen.

Nan Goldin über den Film: “I’ll Be Your Mirror traces my life from my suburban childhood home which I left early to find my own family of friends. Focusing on five of these friends, whom I’ve been close to for up to 25 years, it extends the portrait from the individual to the group. In the end it is both a self-portrait and a family album, one in which the voices of the people who have been photographed are heard. Being suspicious of the traditional style of documentary film and photography in which the artist is outside looking in, we strived to make a document: from the inside reaching out”.

I’ll Be Your Mirror, UK 1995, 16 mm, Farbe, 50 Min., Regie: Nan Goldin & Edmund Coulthard, mit Bruce Balboni, Sharon Niesp, Gotscho, Greer Lankton, David Armstrong u.a.