SNOW, ALWAYS SNOW

A CONVERSATION BETWEEN STANLEY SCHTINTER
& GARETH EVANS ON THE IMPLICATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS 
RELATIVE TO A FILM, SCHNEEWITTCHEN
(S. Schtinter, 70m / 35mm, MMXXV)

Tenement Press / Harry Caul #1
978-1-917304-07-8
100pp [Approx.]

£12.50

 <sub>PREORDER DIRECT FROM TENEMENT HERE 

 FOR A FURTHER WORD ON SCHNEEWITTCHEN, SEE HERE</sub> 


Publishing 21st March 2025



The first in a series of collaborative “in conversation”
publications, Caul Editions, a release to mark and
commemorate the domestic and international
premiere(s) of Schtinter’s feature.

^{Joshua Bonnetta & Valerio Tricoli
Excerpt / purge.xxx / see purge.xxx/purrrrrj043.}



Schneewittchen (2025) is a feature film by the artist and author Stanley Schtinter. An auditorium only, 35mm presentation of which only one print exists. In this volume, director Stanley Schtinter and producer Gareth Evans consider their co-work on Schneewittchen—discuss the project’s implications and associations—and consider the film a catalyst fit to enable a wide-ranging conversation.

Evans and Schtinter touch on the water damage done by mainstream culture to our contemporary critical faculty; consider sight and storytelling; imagination and image-making; creativity and light; the luminosity of the dark; and riff on the implications borne by an ownership of the means of production in an age of extinction. A feature-length discussion grounded in their collaboration; their exchange is a commons composed of 18181 words.

The Tenement / Caul publication of Snow, Always Snow is curtained by a fleeting portfolio of photographs by Joshua Bonnetta, taken on location during the production of Schneewittchen, and an abridged iteration of Evans and Schtinter’s dialogue was broadcast via the London-based radio station, Resonance 104.4FM, 13.02.25.






Sound supersedes sight in Stanley Schtinter’s austere anti-fairy tale Schneewittchen, an English-language remake of João César Monteiro’s Branca de Neve (2000), made largely of an audio performance of Robert Walser’s titular play set to a black screen, occasionally relieved by shots of passing clouds. In Walser’s radical reworking of the Grimm fable, a resurrected Snow White reconciles with the Evil Queen, denying any foul play and even seeking forgiveness for provoking her jealousy.

A parable for our post-truth times, Schtinter’s film provokes reflection on the ontology of a tale as it travels across languages, mediums, geographies and eras. If Walser’s play breaks the reader’s foundational trust in a benevolent, just world, Schneewittchen breaches the implicit contract with the film spectator, offering a motion picture emptied of both motion and pictures: a work where the visual can only appear as excess.

Srikanth Srinivasan,
IFFR: The International Film Festival Rotterdam


 



For the attention of ‘brick & mortar’ bookshops,
order copies of Schtinter & Evans’s Always Snow
via our distributor, Asterism Books.




Schneewittchen
            35mm / 70m / 2025
Stanley Schtinter
            Director                        
Gareth Evans
            Producer
Sean Price Williams
            Cinematography
Joshua Bonnetta
            Sound

Cast of Characters           

_{Joshua Bonnetta, ‘Night Sky,’
Herisau Sketches (October 8)}




For Schtinter’s Last Movies (2023), see here.