Career
Schneider"s photographic work exhibit the distinct appearance of expired Polaroid instant film. Her photographs are enlarged in her Berlin "Labudio" laboratory dream laboratory Chemical mutations can be found in the resulting imagery, a consequence of deterioration of the chemicals, the film involved and the experience/skill of the photographer.
Schneider"s preferred choice of location is the American West (especially Twentynine Palms, California, which served as location and title to one of her books), and the mounting of sequential images in a panel, the photographs evoke the impression of faded dreamy film stills.
Schneider"s work is released in books and exhibition catalogs. She holds an Master of Fine Arts in photography from the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany.
Schneider completed "29 Palms, California" in 2014. A feature film, art piece that explores the dreams and fantasies of a group of people who live in a trailer community in the Californian desert.
The project includes six films: "Hitchhiker", "Rene"s dream", "Sidewinder", "Till death do us part", "Heather"s dream" and "The girl behind the white picket fence".
A defining feature is the use of still Polaroid images in succession and voice over. Characters talk to themselves about their ambitions, memories, hopes and dreams. The latest of these short film is "Heather"s dream", starring Heather Megan Christie and Udo Kier, and was selected in May 2013 by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and is also nominated for the 2013 German short film award.
Schneider has done album covers for the Red Hot Chili Peppers 2006 "Desecration Smile" single and Cyndi Lauper"s 2008 "Bring Ya to the Brink" album cover.
Schneider produced all the artwork in the 2005 film Stay directed by Marc Forster for the character played by Ryan Gosling The end credits were also done with expired Polaroid film. Schneider"s new Berlin analog "Labudio" dream lab was completed in 2015.
