It must be possible to tell history differently. This premise could be read as a guiding principle in the work of Laura Huertas Millán. The Columbian-born artist studied at Studio Le Fresnoy and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris before participating from 2014 to 2017 in the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Lab, founded by Lucien Castaing-…
In Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller’s work, the moving image and still photography are always interrelated. For many of her film projects she first photographs her protagonists as a way of getting closer to them. The earliest films stem from a desire to hold onto a moment by capturing a face or facial expression, inspired by the flair of the …
Since 1992, Simone Bader and Jo Schmeiser have collaborated under the name Klub Zwei at the "intersection of art, film, and new media," to use their words, and have focused especially on socio-political topics and how they are represented.
At one point in Phaidon – Verlage im Exil (2007), the words "De-automatization of perception" appe…
Due to the developments around COVID 19, the screenings from December 9 to 11, 2021 can not take place as originally planned. Our program will resume as scheduled as soon as cinemas can reopen.
The Symposium VALIE EXPORT will be postponed into 2022 - dates tba
One of the most influential artists in the world, VALIE EXPORT's work combines a multime…
In spring, Paul Wenninger's latest short film O had its world premiere in Oberhausen and has been circulating successfully at international festivals ever since. For several years now, the trained dancer and choreographer has been attracting attention in the international film industry with his precise stop-motion animations. VIENNA SHORTS, Vienna…
Styrian-born filmmaker Norbert Pfaffenbichler (b. 1967) is one of the most exciting figures in Austrian experimental film. Invitations to festivals such as Venice and Locarno have also brought him international acclaim. But Pfaffenbichler has always looked beyond the horizon of the avant-garde: an artist and curator, he is a genuine cinephile, con…
Mass for the Dakota Sioux Bruce Baillie. USA, 1964, 16mm, bw, 20 min.
Quixote Bruce Baillie. USA, 1965-68, 16mm, color and bw, 43 min.
Bruce Baillie, who died on April 10 of this year, was the pioneer of "Western American Experimental Film" and the key figure of the pioneering avant-garde awakening in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Sixties.…
Nazlı Dinçel's predominantly analog work is characterized by her work on the body, which she always stages as an object of desire. The use of texts that Dinçel carves into the material by hand, frame by frame, or the use of mirrors are among her trademarks, as are very personal narratives in first-person form. The relationship betwee…
The works of German video and installation artist Bjørn Melhus have received international recognition since the early 1990s, both at film festivals and in exhibition contexts. Melhus, born in 1966, was part of the first generation to grow up with the mass medium of television. He says of himself that American films and series (such as Flip…
The filmmaker Gunvor Nelson wants her works to be called "personal films"; "avant-garde" or "experimental" sound too cool to her. Born in Stockholm in 1931, she went to San Francisco in the early 1950s to study art and painting. There she met her future husband Robert Nelson and, like him, was an important figure in the West Coast art scene, but w…