American Night (2009)

The five-channel film installation "American Night" reflects upon the Western film genre by combining 'the myth of the frontier' with allusions to today's hegemonial foreign policy in the USA. Titled after a technique that allows the shooting of night scenes during the day, and François Truffaut's "La Nuit Américaine" (1973), the film features fundamental motifs of the Western in its characteristically opulent, extended total shots and its celebration of a sublime nature: the deserted town's main street, the saloon, the waiting woman, etc.