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11/65 Bild Helga Philipp is an optical abstraction of an optical abstraction: Kren has simply intercut filmed movements and sections from an Op painting by Helga Philipp - the result is motion opticals.
Sometimes the camera films of its own volition. Macumba shows an optical tangle in 13 scenes. As a start signal one hears a double hammer blow arising from a black screen, a sound like the nailing shut of a coffin. Macumba develops slowly out of the black. A black porno couple on the telephone in London. Then they meet on a snake in a park and are, together with Kalahari Bushmen mixed to a film matrix which is as incomprehensible as real life.
Sometimes I film so that the actors seem to belong to the undead. The construction of the Found-Footage-Party shows Russian, Japanese, American and my own material which is hallucinated into a matrix in which functioning and non-functioning body parts appear as optical lubricant whilst simultaneously we hear someone shaving.
"Sometimes I ask myself what KIND of films I make + and I think they are horror films. Do I make horror films?"
Experimental short based on a car ride.
A special unit called the Uncut Police is created and is tasked with stopping the censorship by any means necessary. Under the leadership of Mrs. Fulci, the Uncut Police cops—consisting of Joe, Umberto, and Dario—take up the fight against censored media. To finally put an end to the censorship, the three cops must track down and arrest the ominous Ilsa. She is known to reside in the Gray Zone, and on the way there, the three cops are confronted with vengeful martial arts fighters, shipments of heavily censored VHS tapes, kidnapped horror film directors, rare fish, and customers of censored media.
Documentary about young people in a small town in Austria.
Extremely confident in her mastery of style and taking obvious delight in her citations, in PAROLE ROSETTE, Katrina Daschner uses the performance by a well-rehearsed group of queer couples to stage a controlled game around/about social conventions and (sexual) self-determination, interwoven into an architecturally sublime setting (the Carlo Mollino's Teatro Regio in Turin). - Barbara Reumüller
The entrance to a men's toilet in an underground pedestrian passage in Vienna. Church bells are heard in the distance. In a merciless editing rhythm, anonymous men are brought ever closer to the opaque glass door, in rhythmic stanzas they are stucked ever deeper inside the room one can't see into. In between there are photos from a pornographic magazine, in which a tattooed Saviour is placed in a direct connection with the sexual intercourse between two men - all to the sounds of ghastly brass band music. Prince of Peace is written under the Redeemer's face.
Arnulf Rainer—every which way but loose.
Experimental film depicting military service in a grotesque way.
Trailer for Crossing Europe Film Festival, Linz 2004.
Austria's largest housing complex erected in one building stage is situated in the Northeast of Vienna. It lies on the former premises of a horse racetrack and comprises 2.400 flats. 59 blocks and long hall-like corridors lead more than 8.000 people to their living rooms: The film offers glimpses into the lives of more than 20 people - the life of an individual behind one of the countless doors.
"In 2012 the Viennale invited La Blogothèque to film in Vienna. We decided early on to take on board artists of the Montréal based label Constellation Records, which was celebrating its 15th birthday, to play stripped down versions of their catalogue. The film has been shot during four days, gathering unheard versions of an eclectic and yet coherent musical chore. This "post-rockumentary" must be regarded as a musical album, taking you from place to place, melting visual feelings with acoustic resonance, mixing the shared experience with the most introspective performance." - François Clos, Thomas Lallier
This documentary accompanies the truck squad Treibstoff („Fuel“) for one year in their search for a home. The idea of vehicle sites is fairly new in Austria and confronted with quite a few problems. We experience first hand their major efforts for a political solution to legalize vehicle sites in Vienna. They express their hopes, wishes, motivations, fears or anger and move like an odyssey from fallow land to fallow land. The landowners are not interested in this alternative life-style and always come up with the same excuse: Something will be built here! With every removal tensions are rising...
Four nude girls prance about in a small clearing in a dense wood or green garden. Two stay coyly to the left, one dances in the front with a flowing, flimsy veil, and another, far right, mimics the dancer's movements.
This film is an essay about the struggle to define the borders of democracy in Austria between the rise to power of the far right wing leader Jörg Haider in 2000, and the situation today. The film aesthetic of the anti-Haider activists contrasts to today's official news footage. This gives emphasis to the multilayered clash of different political visions that occurred throughout the decade. In this sense the archive footage does not just transport information about the events it depicts, but though the contrasting materiality encapsulates the tensions between its many creators.
A short found footage trailer made for a film program dedicated to the depiction of Jesus in cinema.
When the mind is an evolute of matter, ‘Why day is it’ opens a field of possibilities, combining and fusing symbolic values (condensation) extracted from the material world into psychoanalytic representation of thoughts, objects or ideas. The work explores mental experiments in which the common logic of space, the self and materiality no longer serves as a limiting framework. A dreamlike essence remains.
Monteverdi's Vespers performed by the Wiltener Sängerknaben and its soloists together with the Academia Jacobus Stainer, conducted by Johannes Stecher, in the Pfarrkirche Sterzing on 12 August 2024.
A proof-of-concept film for an upcoming short film...
This educational film cynically explores the causes and depressive effects of tourism on the physical and social environment of the Alpine region.
Holzfeind’s documentary style video artwork addresses the wider social and political phenomena of globalisation by diving into the fragmented scenes of the lives of Romanian refugees whose lives oscillate between their current ‘home’ in Austria and their original home in Romania. From the harsh working conditions that are embedded in their middle-class jobs to the poverty of refugee camps, the Holzfeind casts a light on the larger totality of globalisation by deciphering the blurred identities of these refugees, and by large, any immigrant that are going through similar, perhaps more poignant experiences around the globe.
Waclaw Nijinski, exiled from the Russian Ballets, exiled from marriage and his home, exiled within a psychiatric hospital, finds himself in a process of transformation — he is becoming a sheep, with the purpose of settling forever in the Alps. Will he succeed?
Under a cloudless sky, Hansi Hinterseer hosts a communal mountain fair in the alpine idyll of Kitzbühel. Observing – without judgment – the camera follows along amidst the throng of fans, waiting patiently for the revered skiing and entertainment legend to appear. Eventually, Hansi does emerge and proceeds to sing, pray, and bring people together. This is a film about a movement of both the body and the mind.
This 16mm film reflects VALIE EXPORT's dialogue with the medium film: "Back then I was occupied with trying to find out how you can use this small machine to do things with various formal, artistic or performance-like sequences on celluloid: cross-fading, rewinding and starting over again, not having any clear pictures. In this project I was interested in moving towards the camera and moving away again."
The short film – the third in a trilogy – is inspired by the work of Adam Curtis and introduced by his synthetic voice. Like his original documentary series, the movie is a compilation of archival materials gathered from the endless stream of news and oddities that the internet still is.
Two women exchange cinematic letters that connect the past and present. Heidrun, a Viennese woman, and Sara, a Colombian migrant, live in the city at different times—whether in fiction or reality is not always clear.
A forest must make way for an industrial park, but before the ugly nothingness destroys all beauty, it finds itself one last time in this equally beautiful film. Michael Heindl has assembled this impressively bitter swan song from thousands of photographs of tree bark from the forest that was later cleared.
At historically significant sites in Kyoto, young people create ritualistic dances of invocation. From off-screen come natural sounds and whispered poetry implicating the patriarchy. The butterfly promises radical transformation: a film like a spell cast against power and gender roles.
The Vienna University of Economics and Business, first built in the 1980s, is facing a not so certain future despite grand announcements: should the building be demolished or can it possibly be renovated? And if so, how? Christoph Schwarz poses questions that go beyond the redesign of the site and the building itself.
Joerg Burger attempts to grasp its essence from different approaches. Through factual interviews with experts in archaeology, physics, psychology, mathematics, and music as well as abstract, almost otherworldly aerial imagery, a sensuous-intellectual bridge emerges between the humanities and natural sciences—inspiring contemplation and wonder.
A man returns home.
Guiseppe Verdi's Lusia Miller returns to the Wiener Staatsoper after an absence of 36 years. This production is conducted by Michele Mariotti and stars Nadine Sierra and Freddie DeTommaso. Stage direction by Philipp Grigorian.
The film was almost completely destroyed by a mistake during manual film development. Only ruins of a film remain – a film that was supposed to show the heart of winter tourism: a cable car ride. The error was caused by using water that was too warm – an apt metaphor for how even a few degrees of warming will fundamentally change the Earth, leaving only remnants of snow and ice behind.
“Morning,” “Noon,” “Evening”: a day set to music by Joseph Haydn. Italian conductor Giovanni Antonini and his ensemble Il Giardino Armonico perform the Austrian composer’s symphonic trilogy in the sumptuous Haydn Hall of the Esterházy Palace in Austria, the very place where it was first performed. More than 250 years later, a true alchemy unfolds in this historic setting between the musicians and the three works.
A Flock of Rotations hurls the senses into dizzying abstraction. Chromatic patterns flicker and multiply, shrinking until they paradoxically loom large again. The synaesthetic spirals first plummet and then soar ad infinitum, or so it seems. As orientation tilts from horizontal to vertical to diagonal, shifting speeds play tricks on perception.
Ikea fetish
Directed and animated by Elizabeth Hobbs whilst on an artist's residency in Vienna in the summer of 2009.
A film by Hofedl 18
Several young actresses, mostly fresh from theatre school, follow the casting call for a role tailored to their lives: that of an actress auditioning for the role of an actress… An intriguing mix of documentary and fiction that examines the complexities of womanhood as role play and acting as social practice.
Short documentary on the world-famous Vienna Boys' Choir.
Two rival athletes navigate the extreme pressure imposed by their coach. Caught between passion and professionalism, Alex faces a devastating decision that threatens not only his career but also his personal integrity.