Kangaroo Court

Fritz Lang and the motifs of his film M – Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931) have been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for multimedia artist Ivan Faktor, who revisited them with the complex work-in-progress project Kangaroo Court. Conceived as a reconstruction of a scene from the film in which members of the Berlin underworld hold an illegal trial for a psychopathic child murderer, the project’s first phase—realized in June 2005—took the form of a photograph. In the devastated setting of a former Zagreb factory, about two hundred anonymous and well-known extras brought the Berlin underworld to life. Three cameramen vigilantly documented the process of their costumed retro-initiation into Lang’s universe. The “trial” continues…

• 39. zagrebački salon, 2005. – Velika nagrada• "Ivan Faktor: retrospektivna izložba", Galerija Klovićevi dvori, 2010.• Izložba "Ivan Faktor: Erstes Programm", Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, 2012.• Izložba "Ivan Faktor Film koji samo ja gledam", Muzej likovnih umjetnosti, Osijek, 2017.• "Hommage Fritzu Langu – trilogija M", MM centar, 2019.