Rooms, Conversations
TITLE
Rooms, Conversations
DIRECTOR
Dora García
COUNTRY
Belgium
YEAR
2006
DURATION
28′
GENRE
Experimental
Rooms, Conversations
In an apartment in Leipzig, an encounter takes place between a Stasi officer and a civilian informer. Although the film draws on the historical context of East Germany in the years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, neither the Stasi nor Leipzig is explicitly mentioned. Through the characters’ dialogue, gestures, clothing, and behavior, Dora García explores fear, control, authority, obedience, power, and surveillance. The film deliberately avoids being either documentary or conventional fiction, creating an ambiguous space between historical reality, performance, and constructed behavior.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Dora García
Dora García (born 1965, Valladolid, Spain) is a Spanish contemporary artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses experimental film, video, performance, installation, and text. Her work explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, often examining questions of control, freedom, identity, and the relationship between performer and audience. García studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Since the late 1990s, she has developed a body of work that frequently combines scripted situations, performance, and moving image. Her films include The Breathing Lesson (2001), The Deviant Majority (2010), The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018), and Amor Rojo (2024). Her work has been presented internationally at major exhibitions and festivals, including the Venice Biennale, documenta, Manifesta, and the Sydney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2011, she represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2021, she was awarded Spain’s National Award for Plastic Arts in recognition of her innovative and interdisciplinary artistic practice.
- DirectorDora García
- Screenplay
- Cinematography
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- Editing
- Producer/s Dora García
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- Project TitleRooms, Conversations
- Project Type Experimental
- Completion Date01 Jan 2006
- Country of originBelgium
- Country of filmingBelgium
- LanguageGerman
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Dora García
Dora García (born 1965, Valladolid, Spain) is a Spanish contemporary artist and filmmaker whose multidisciplinary practice encompasses experimental film, video, performance, installation, and text. Her work explores the boundaries between reality and fiction, often examining questions of control, freedom, identity, and the relationship between performer and audience. García studied Fine Arts at the University of Salamanca and at the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam. Since the late 1990s, she has developed a body of work that frequently combines scripted situations, performance, and moving image. Her films include The Breathing Lesson (2001), The Deviant Majority (2010), The Joycean Society (2013), Segunda Vez (2018), and Amor Rojo (2024). Her work has been presented internationally at major exhibitions and festivals, including the Venice Biennale, documenta, Manifesta, and the Sydney and São Paulo Biennials. In 2011, she represented Spain at the 54th Venice Biennale. In 2021, she was awarded Spain’s National Award for Plastic Arts in recognition of her innovative and interdisciplinary artistic practice.
