WORKING GIRL
video, 16mm, 4,56’’, 2004

Music: Amon Tobin, Proper Hoodidge © Ninja Tune // Director: Corine Stübi // Cameraman: Dirk Lütter // Production: Corine Stübi/ KHM

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"...The promo is a curious, immensely stylish collection of images, called Working girl", that depict a woman playing various roles, from cleaner to pole dancer to air hostess and mother.."

Belinda Archer, Shots Magazine # 85

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"Corine Stübi is a rare combination of fine artist,
director and actor – the voiceless roles she plays in her videos make her a kind of performance artist
too. In Working Girl, her film set to Amon Tobin’s
“Proper Hoodidge” (which his label, Ninja Tune,
has accepted as the song’s video), she plays an
assortment of working women, drawing attention
to social stereotypes. Her provocative approach to
ideas of femininity and her artistic range make
Stübi unique."

RES Magazine, march/april 2005

"...Household robots with various qualifications introduce themselves to an eager audience of buyers. It turns out, however, that these seemingly excellent "maids" have serious technical defects.."

"Working Girl is a music video in the broadest sense. It makes do without words. A minimalist soundtrack intensifies the standardized images. Working Girls: Mom, teacher, stewardess, doctor, table dancer, secretary, masturbator, cleaner. What they do is secondary. In midst a sterile, innocent white their work is reduced to recognizable gestures and mimics. Asigned or self-imposed perfection with the purpose of keeping things running smoothly. In-between moments of anger. Something eerie is spreading. The dream of buying one's own home is undermined by the will to dysfunction."

Anna Jacobsen, Feminale's catalogue

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"Le clip vidéo "working girl" de Corine Stübi baigne dans une blancheur innocente et pourtant l'ambiance y est glauque.La vidéo égrène les principaux rôles de la femme moderne: consommatrice de culture, secrétaire, gogo danseuse, chanteuse de pop, coiffeuse, enseignante, mère, médecin, femme de ménage, bouchère, masturbatrice, infirmière. Une succession de gestes automatisés et d'actions mécanisées, une galerie sous forme de bloc de glace. Un film qui pourrait passer pour la suite d' "identification d'une femme" d'Antonioni, en plus pervers."

Olaf Karnik, Arte

"Working Girl' was sent into Ninja without any warning, raw and unguided, from German student Corine Stubi, who used Amon's 'Propa Hoodige' as the sound track to her short film. We think it seriously cuts it as a stunning music video.Since then "Working Girl" has caused a storm with some serious music industry big wigs and it's now looking like Corine is now well on her way to becoming a fully fledged music video director. We love it so much, we've put it up on our video page."

Ninja Tune homepage, News 22.11.2004

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"Alles schön in unschuldigem Weiß gehalten, und doch macht sich gespenstische Atmosphäre breit. Tobins TripHop-Instrumental ist so was von egal, die Bilder sind viel stärker und spielen moderne Frauenrollen durch: Kunstkonsumentin, Sekretärin, Go-go-Tänzerin, Pop-Sängerin, Friseurin, Lehrerin, Mutter, Ärztin, Putzfrau, Fleischerin, Masturbatorin, Krankenschwester. Alles automatisierte Gesten und mechanisierte Bewegungsabläufe, und der white cube ist ein Eisblock. Klasse Anti-Identitätspolitik-Clip!"

Olaf Karnik, Intro # April 2004

"Allein Corine Stübi wahrt mit Working girl im diesjährigen MuVi-Programm den schönen Schein und spinnt Chris Cunnighams Clip zu Björks "All is full of love" ein wenig weiter: Puppenhafte Frauen verkörpern weibliche Rollenmuster in klinisch reiner Atmosphäre, wobei die heilige Zweifaltigkeit von Mutter und Kind durch eine beigefügte Schere etwas Beängstigendes bekommt. Für manchen dürfte dieser in seiner eleganten Künstlichkeit ruhende Clip eine Erholung vom eher ruppingen Realismus der disejährigen Auswahl sein."

Michael Kohler, 50. Kurzfilmtage (Oberhausen) Programm