The Falling Eye by huubkoch

Saskia Olde Wolbers [short clips or trailers of her work]

Saskia Olde Wolbers is a Dutch Video Artist based in London. She films small intricate sets made out of a variety of materials, which are often shot under water. Fictional stories told in the form of reportage are used as voice-overs for the images. Her 2002 DVD projection Placebo was exhibited at the Tate Britain. Placebo and Interloper (2003) are loosely based on the case of Jean-Claude Romand, who pretended to be a successful doctor before going on a killing spree in 1993. In 2005 her work Trailers was shown at the South London Gallery, Trailers tells the story of a man watching a movie trailer.

New Contemporaries - Saskia Olde Wolbers makes complex, multi-layered films, whose narratives often take their starting point from overheard conversations, newspaper articles or television programmes. Factual incidents are then filtered into fictional narratives, which move away from an actual identification with the real event, person or conversation that may have inspired the idea. Whilst reportage and documentary style are used to relay the story, the visual imagery draws on surreal, fantastical or dream-like interiors and environments. The process of making is integral to her practice and, rather than using computer animation techniques, Olde Wolbers constructs the film sets by hand – in miniature – in the studio.