Never Meant to Be Seen is a film about the nameless beauties of 35 mm films. Their brief appearances at the start of each film reel may have given them the hope that this could be the start of a movie career but are actually used for laboratory density tests. The so called “China girls” or “girl heads,” being looped, can wink, laugh and start to talk with women’s dialogs from movies of their period. The initial small talk leads into a discussion what the idea of lascivious posing for a material test is about.

Elke Groen * 1969 Gmunden Austria

Films (selection)
The Most Beautiful Place on Earth (2020 d)
Bojo Beach (2017 a-g)
Optical Sound (co-director 2014 a-g)