Hollywood Movie (single—channel video, 2012) A transformation of Nam June Paik’s text “film scenario” into a movie. Hollywood stars speak Paik: “You can make any Hollywood movie interesting, if you cut the movie several times.” Michael Caine, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, John Torturro, Katharine Hepburn and other protagonists of mainstream cinema are assembled to speak a text about deconstructing film watching.
Volker Schreiner (b. 1957 in Isingerode) — a German sculptor, video artist and media theorist. He studied at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (1977—1983). Since 1988 he works in the field of video, video sculpture and video installation. Lecturer at the Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung in Karlsruhe (1993) and at Hochschule fur Bildende Künste in Braunschweig (1994—1998). Guest professor at the Johannes—Gutenberg Universität Mainz. His works were shown in Berlin, Oberhausen, Rotterdam, Vila do Conde, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, Rome, New York, Montreal, Tokio and Sydney, and awarded, among others, on 5th Hamburger Kurzfilmfestival (Hamburg, 1989), 5th Marler Video—Kunst—Preis (1992), Etrange Festival (Paris, 2006), as well as International Media Art Biennale WRO (Wrocław, 1991, 1993, 2005). His works are owned by Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Mediathek of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe, Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Museum für Neue Kunst in Karlsruhe, Amsterdam Film Museum. He lives and works in Braunschweig.
