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  • Tutorial 6.11

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    Annalisa Rhein

    failed attempt to prototype

    disliked it, so i didn’t finish it

    i was feeling super lost..

    where is my red thread? T^T

    mini-map about leather jackets as symbol of working class

    combing through the luxembourgish archive

    hm

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    {insert mind-map of the 80s}

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    tryouts with filming+editing

    https://base.uni-ak.ac.at/cloud/index.php/apps/files/files/27012464?dir=/STUDENTS/2026W%20What%20Stories%20do%20Objects%20Tell%3F/Semester/solo%202

    next steps

    • more physical prototypes inspired by Stuart Candy (“to make a future tangible”)
    • a map for the 80s in luxembourg (to help with the archival work)
    • have more fun with film

  • Tutorial 30.10

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    Annalisa Rhein

    first draft:

    exploring the tension between an exhibited object and its untold story.

    how to reveal the emotional value?

    tryouts through context:

    putting the jacket in a museum context, it sometimes:

    • fits the context
    • changes the meaning of the jacket
    • parodises the other objects

    daily context:

    • you need to accentuate the jacket somehow

    research about ethnographic work:

    mini “museum-ish” work on my wall

    moving forward:

    my own family as base for ethnographic work

    -> best way for me to explore the missing stories

    plan:

    in november:

    22nd: arrival, going to the attic, finding a few objects

    23rd: reducing the objects to a few, mapping it out

    24th: detailing it out, make single interviews

    25th: finishing single interviews, make the final interview

    26th: going back to vienna

  • First Tutorial

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    Annalisa Rhein

    My object, still the jacket:

    Then:

    Brainstorm

    Crystalisation:

    • revealing the hidden story of objects
    • object as a connection to my family/culture/heritage (if I have heritage)
    • me vs aunt: who wore it better? (analyzing the different circumstances, expectations)

    Questions I had afterwards:

    • What’s the story behind my object?
    • What exact expectations are tied to it?
    • What was it like being young in the 70-80’s in Luxembourg?
    • What does wearing this jacket mean to me/to my aunt?
    • How can ethnological museums represent that emotional value?

    I felt kind of stuck…

    Then I did some free writing and some…

    Research:

    • Museum of Broken Relationships Zagreb
    • La rĂ©sistance des bijoux by Ariella AĂŻsha Azoulay and The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
    • No man’s Land, 2010, Christian Boltanski

    some lil sketches:

    Next Steps:

    • Actually talk to my family
    • Explore and experiment with the tension between an ethnological description and personal value

  • Tutorial 19.12

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    Annalisa Rhein

    ,

    Janek Beau

    ,

    Nina Heimel

    and

    Franziska Anna Herzog

    Saturday 13.12

    Read through and script rewrite

    Tryouts with lighting

    First SnorriCam Shot

    Tuesday 16.12

    Setting up the location

    Shooting

    Final Test Results

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lhXs3-VspYypB2AqD7TG2Si-xn_XwJpa/view?usp=sharing

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/11yD2-N5Jf_SYeVBDicqcgqwqepZckokh/view?usp=sharing

  • Research

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    Annalisa Rhein

    Reaching out to people in the sex work industry to ask them about the impact of AI in their field:

    Questions:

    • What is intimacy?
      • What are the sociological and psychological aspects of it?
      • What is digital intimacy?
    • What is sexual autonomy?
      • How did feminist movements create sexual autonomy for women?
    • …

    Intimacy is not a fixed state, but a process of negotiation. It arises through relationship, communication, and consent. Feminist and queer productions portray intimacy as something real, contradictory, sometimes imperfect — and that is their strength. Especially in times of AI, intimacy is being renegotiated — also between humans and technology.

    – Jasmin Hagendorfer

    Second Session with Soph

    • choosing Intimacy as our broad topic (keeping the porn industry aspect in the background)

    Saeed’s workshop

    Workshop product itself: Satirical aspect

    • We didn’t like that our video “made fun” of people that want to experience sexuality in ways common people are not used to

    => Led our community towards activism

    In the ‘solved world’, the image of women, their bodies and sex is twisted and warped into unrealistic standards

    • our community would fight against that

    for us: difficult to imagine how that could look like, still explicit because of the porn aspect

    Matthew’s workshop

    (see other post)

    We moved away from sex and toward intimacy through gestures (specifically hands and touch), including intimacy outside of romantic relationships, for example: friendships, family, intimacy in comforting and listening, etc. Also intimacy in encounters with strangers, and so on.

    Creating a story

    • instead of creating a community around intimacy => focus on creating intimacy (and maybe community) throughout the story
      • focus on one or fewer characters = more personal
    • What’s the situation and environment for our character?

    We decided that in our film, we want to represent intimacy through storytelling rather than focusing directly on a community.
    We want to show one or two people in our documentary who, in some way, are involved with AI companions (owning AI companions, “programming” or finalizing AI companions for others = character trainers) and portray their intimacy as well as the related problems, questions, lifestyles, and so on.

    We moved away from the porn industry, but we’re not completely ruling out that it might still have an influence on our subjects or on the AI companions.

    • How does intimacy appear for our character?
    • What is the message we want to convey with our movie?