The photo-series “EXT. NOC.” shows nightly film sets from different feature film productions. “EXT. NOC.” primarily examines the existing light and lighting situation.

The series is shot mainly in New York City and Austria.

“EXT. NOC.” is less interested in the scenes themselves, but rather focuses on the surrounding environment – places apart from the actual cinematic plot; where lighting, and in some cases the lighting technology for partially very remote film scenes, can be seen. While the massive luminous bodies and their output sometimes only set a minimal accent on the recordings of the actual filmed scenes, they dominate the space behind or next to the film camera.

They redefine the space in the otherwise pitch black night, or even completely define it anew. While on one hand the images trace the construction of reality in narrative film in a documentary and descriptive way, on the other hand they themselves are to the highest degree narrative and show spaces that themselves have much to communicate.

In the images of the series, I photographically capture the dark spots where the construction of the cinematic world meets the real one – where diegetic and extradiegetic image narratives collide with each other: I not only try to tie in content and aesthetics to a cinematic environment, but also formally borrow from cinematic narrative strategies, which I use for an independent photographic image finding.