In legend, the director has always adopted the role of the all-powerful potentate. The greater his genius, the less inhibited his autocratic regime over the actors on the set. Perhaps it is repressed envy that leads the average citizen to conceive film direction as a licence to sadism.<\/p>\n
Jannicke L\u00e5ker does not harbour such prejudice, but she uses direction as a form of power, nonetheless. She develops experimental psychological set-ups from the relations of power involved in film recording and arranges simple situations from the screenplay and other guidelines like an experiment whose test persons are the actors. In the process, L\u00e5ker ruthlessly shows things that the viewers would often prefer not to see: taxing, humiliating or painful situations and the test persons\u2019 attempts to defend themselves. Playing with perspectives, L\u00e5ker simultaneously turns the viewer into a voyeur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","categories":[],"class_list":["post-12154","kb_exhibition","type-kb_exhibition","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"article_image":15314,"article_image_bu_de":"","article_image_bu_en":"","datum_suche":"2014-06-20 10:12:50"},"yoast_head":"\n