Bettina Hutschek

I write stories: through the narration, I analyze contemporary phenomena and trans- late them into poetical “mythologies”. My work takes on the form of essay-films, fictive documentaries, narrated performances and works with text.

Starting from observations and documentary material (often archives, found footage, old photographs etc.), I develop stories which are situated between facts and fiction. The different layers of “reality” are interwoven through the thread of narration. Like this, “transitory spaces” come up, where the imaginary, the mythical and a phantasmagoric reinterpretation of history becomes possible.

In all my works I try to meld layers of “truth” and fiction, in order to question “reality” and History in an absurd and ironic, however mostly poetic way.