Kanzleramt (Federal Chancellery) /Sleeper House A video by Elke Mohr und Ingeborg Lockemann The film Sleeper by Woody Allen is an important inspiration for the video: The unique architecture of the Sculpted House is used as a setting. The futuristic appearance of the house by Denver functions as a command center for people of the future. Here resides the ruling class. Thanks to the guidance of a strong leader they live and enjoy a carefree life and render homage to a pure appreciation for everything beautiful. The rebels live and hide in the forest surrounding the Sleeper House. Miles Monroe (W. Allen), a person of the 70´s, is forced to land in this futuristic world and wants to save his individualism and life. He tries in various, curious ways, to conquer the border between the Sleeper House and forest. Or, the programmed house residents and outlaws. Mohr and Lockemann are also shown in the video in two positions: outside and inside the Federal Chancellery in Berlin, office of the German president. The futuristic building shares similar details to the architecture of the Sleeper House. Mohr and Lockemann place themselves in the role of rebels outside the fence: prowling, sneaking and hiding. They are also shown inside the building, behaving like the residents of the Sleeper House: they speak of wonderful art, the mysterious rebels, and pretend to search for a meaning. The video plays with various rolls of the artists and functionalized art: as a gesture to resistance and the established, representative form. The video uses fragments of text from the film Sleeper. Sponsored by the Cultural Affairs Department of the Berlin Senate

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