EXPERIMENTAL
Ines has directed close to twenty short experimental videos, 16mm and Super-8 films that have screened at film festivals, cinemas, and alternative venues in the U.S. and Germany. They range from micro-shorts to the docufiction feature Ghost Cities, which follows a woman's downward spiral through an urban dreamscape into social invisibility. Ines' interest in politics, history, and the essay form informed My Germany: Unqualified Remarks of a Distant Observer, an award-winning essay film about her home country's dark past.
Among Ines' 16mm works are the poetic shorts O,A and Portrait mit Huhn, which is one of several collaborative projects with German dancer and gardener Gabriele Oechsle-Ali. A Still Life of Postcards and red shoe focus on women's roles and motherhood, while The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof uses dark humor to skewer consumer culture. Included in a special Super-8 program at the Berlin International Film Festival, Que la lumière soit is Ines' small gauge tribute to the Lumiere Brothers' pioneering films. Full filmography available upon request.
Ines latest short was heating & cooling, an ephemeral summer breeze of a film that was set on fire after a one-time screening at Chicago's historic Music Box Theatre as part of the Destroy Your Art event in September 2023.
Ines latest short was heating & cooling, an ephemeral summer breeze of a film that was set on fire after a one-time screening at Chicago's historic Music Box Theatre as part of the Destroy Your Art event in September 2023.
INSTALLATIONS
The environmental justice documentary The Hills was on view at 6018 I North as part of the 2023-24 Water exhibit, alongside photos from the documentary.
STORMY SEA 2020 I video loop installation
Stormy Sea was exhibited as part of Art-In-Place, a project of CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions that invited artists to exhibit an original work of art outside their home or in a window that was visible to the public. This collective action provided Chicago artists and community members with a sense of hope and connectivity through the experience of public art during an unprecedented moment of isolation during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Other installations have included unmoored as part of the Hyde Park Art Center's exhibit Fast Forward : Rewind : Play and hydrodynamic locomotion for bathtub, a film loop installation at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
Stormy Sea was exhibited as part of Art-In-Place, a project of CNL Projects and Terrain Exhibitions that invited artists to exhibit an original work of art outside their home or in a window that was visible to the public. This collective action provided Chicago artists and community members with a sense of hope and connectivity through the experience of public art during an unprecedented moment of isolation during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Other installations have included unmoored as part of the Hyde Park Art Center's exhibit Fast Forward : Rewind : Play and hydrodynamic locomotion for bathtub, a film loop installation at the Chicago Underground Film Festival.
