Two channel HD video installation with sound I Duration: 36:29 min. loop I Screening format:16×9 I 2010- 2011 I Edition: 7+1 AP I Featuring: Agneta Ekmanner, Udo Kier, Greta Elettra Broms, Amanda Mallia (voice over) I Distribution: Inter Media Art Institute, Düsseldorf I © Helen Broms Sandberg
The story about a writer who has succumbed to an obsession: to narrate and relive the life of a dead queen, Christina of Sweden. Following her father’s death, the five-year-old sole heir ascended the throne as queen. Because her true sex was concealed at birth, she received a traditional male upbringing. The Queen relives through the three characters: The Actor, her male alter ego, the Child and the present time Writer that are in reality her different identities in other times and spaces. The Writer is seen through a surveillance camera closed in with his obsessions, constrained to construct a parallel reality and with writing as the only way to escape his madness where the border between reality and fantasy no longer exist. Based on the life of a Swedish writer who ended his days in a psychiatric clinic. His book was never published.
