SISTERS OF VALERIE IRIS CAMP

Sisters of Valerie Iris Camp, 2018 - HD film 13:55 min

Sisters of Valerie Iris Camp is a video piece that I did for my graduation at Funen Art Academy in 2018.

It's a poetic movie about Valeries desperate attempt to avoid loneliness. She has made 4 dolls that she calls her sisters.

In different scenarios she experience how it's not possible for the dolls to help her avoid the loneliness despite their

appearance. The story is told by the dolls.

Like many of the other pieces in the Degree Show, " The Drama", this work is based on a manuscript. Written as a play

in seven acts, we follow the main character shape the dolls, then watch as her puppets come to life. Enacted in a color-

saturated universe filled with decorations, disco lights, crystal glass and rose quartz - ‘love stones’, Pernille Kragh

Christensen plays herself in the main role where she, again, ‘performs’ as a woman in a series of staged self-promoting

musical numbers. The film is a cross between a music video and a musical – with party songs, karaoke shows, and a choir of

loneliness, self-hate / maternal-hatred, and the search for love.

It plays off the relationship between masking and unmasking, between lifelike and dead. The main character steps in

and out of her role as performer – puts on makeup, performs with the dolls, then suddenly, stops performing.

“ In my film, Valerie and her sisters are exposed to various scenarios.

These scenarios stem from Valerie’s’ desperate attempt to cast off her loneliness.

She has made the dolls in such a way that they can represent all the events of her life.

The dolls are her.

When I create a character, it is not so much to create a history for her.

The character can be anonymous, coming to life through the visual expression and scenarios she is coupled with.

Valerie Iris Camp exists through her sisters (the dolls).

She is nothing without them and they would be nothing without her.