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s Studio (Stay) - Polaroid, 21st Century, Contemporary, Color2006
2006
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Stefanie Schneider's work was used for Marc Forster's movie 'Stay'. Featuring Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling. Naomi and Ryan were both portraying artists and Stefanie's art was the art both created during the movie. Stefanie's images were also used for Ryan Gosling's memory sequence, for the end titles, for edits in between and as art paintings hanging in several scenes within the movie.
“I never remember the details of a Stefanie Schneider image, just the whole. She treads a third path between reality and dream that connects the two and truly sparks my artistic, visual freedom.” (Marc Forster)
This piece:
Lila's Studio (Stay) with Noami Watts and Ewan McGregor - 2006
50x50cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 5109.
Not mounted.
Torsten Scheid, “Fotografie, Kunst, Kino. Revisited.”, FilmDienst 3/2006, page 11-13
Photography Art Cinema. Revisited
Blurring Boundaries: Photography and Film in Stay
The relationship between photography and film has long been rich and complex—ranging from Chris Marker’s photo-montage masterpiece La Jetée (1962) to cinematic depictions of photographers in films like Memento (2000) and One Hour Photo (2002). Artists like Cindy Sherman, Wim Wenders, and Larry Clark have crossed this boundary, shaping both media with a hybrid language of stillness and motion.
Historically, film portrayed photographers as technical rather than artistic figures—voyeurs more than creators. From Fred Astaire’s cheerful fashion photographer in Funny Face (1957) to the alienated lensman in Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966), photography often stood in contrast to “real” art. But by the 1990s, films like High Art and Pecker redefined photography as an art form in its own right, embedded in the language of contemporary cinema.
Marc Forster’s Stay (2005) continues this conversation, but shifts the focus. Rather than celebrating photography as a technical or institutional art, the film explores painting as a metaphor for the subconscious. Art here is intuition, madness, and memory. The story—centered around psychiatrist Sam (Ewan McGregor), his artist girlfriend Lila (Naomi Watts), and suicidal student Henry (Ryan Gosling)—unfolds in a surreal blur of time loops, shifting identities, and dreamlike distortions.
Stefanie Schneider’s ethereal Polaroids play a subtle but key role in this atmosphere. Her faded, chemically altered images—based on expired film—appear throughout the film, printed on canvas as Lila’s paintings. These dreamlike visuals echo the film’s themes of memory, disintegration, and perception. Though used sparingly on screen, Schneider’s work deepens the film’s ambiguity, serving less as set decoration and more as symbolic signposts.
In Stay, photographs aren’t just props—they are metaphors. They dissolve the line between dream and reality, asking viewers to actively engage and interpret. As one art professor in the film suggests: “Everything is meaningful. Everything is connected.” Schneider’s images extend this message beyond the screen, lingering after the credits roll. They don’t document—they reinterpret.
Ultimately, Stay is not just a film but a collaborative artwork. The dialogue between Forster’s direction and Schneider’s aesthetic invites viewers to look again—and maybe see something new.
- Creator:Stefanie Schneider (1968, German)
- Creation Year:2006
- Dimensions:Height: 19.69 in (50 cm)Width: 19.69 in (50 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
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- Gallery Location:Morongo Valley, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU652316363902
Stefanie Schneider
Stefanie Schneider received her MFA in Communication Design at the Folkwang Schule Essen, Germany. Her work has been shown at the Museum for Photography, Braunschweig, Museum für Kommunikation, Berlin, the Institut für Neue Medien, Frankfurt, the Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Museum für Moderne Kunst Passau, Les Rencontres d'Arles, Foto -Triennale Esslingen., Bombay Beach Biennale 2018, 2019.
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