Miranda Pennell, originally a trained dancer, creates not only a dance in the image in her video work, but also a dance with the image - from upset situations to still moments that are able to contrast and emphasise the movement. The dancing people are never on their own - they dance for and with the camera. As a dancer, Pennell's affinity for rhy…

Eve Heller's films are characterised by a fleetingness that you want to hold on to, that constantly lets your gaze slip away - similar to the clear yet fragmented images of a dream. Shimmering light, multiple exposures, the grain of the emulsion (greatly magnified by the optical printer), and sometimes slowed down movements emphasise this effect.

Lis Rhodes is one of the central artists in British experimental film since the early 1970s and yet has been presented in this country with only a few works. She was Cinema Curator at the London Filmmakers' Co-op, and in 1979 also co-founded Circles, the first distributor of films and videos by women, later called Cinenova. This commitment to wome…

With his first film The Flicker, Tony Conrad produced an authoritative work of structural film in 1966 and became a central figure of the US avantgarde. By focusing on the film material itself and the media-specific conditions of the cinematic apparatus, the viewer's attention is drawn to his or her own perceptual processes. The rhythmic puls…

Ivan Ladislav Galeta from Zagreb is the neo-platonist among the directors of European experimental film. Behind the clear, mathematically abstract, frame-by-frame, meticulously rhythmically built structure of his films and video works, all of which are at the same time analyses of the medium film, Galeta conceals a veritable chamber of wonders: he…

As practicing architect, Bruce McClure has lived and worked in New York, Brooklyn since 1985. He began publicly showing his Projector Performances in 1994, and has been a celebrated guest at festivals, cinematheques, and museums for several years. McClure "plays" his projectors as if they were instruments of light and sound. Up to four 16mm machin…

After initially facing fierce hostility, VALIE EXPORT is considered one of the essential and internationally most influential artists in Austria, combining multimedia art practice and theory with a feminist concern. Her forms of expression range from drawing and conceptual photography to installations, sculptures and performances. The running imag…

Nathaniel Dorsky, born in 1943, lives and works in San Francisco. In the USA he is considered one of the great avant-garde film artists.
As early as 1964, Dorsky presented his first films in the style of psychodrama, which opened the doors for his pay job as a cameraman and editor of commercial films. But he soon abandoned the narrative element in…

Józef Robakowski was born in Poznan in 1939. He studied art history at the Copernicus University in Torun and later attended the State Film School in Lodz ́. In the 1960s he began as a photographer and filmmaker (35mm and 16mm format) and belonged to the first generation of Polish artists to work with video. From 1974 onwards, he made his o…

Corinna Schnitt works on everyday life and the private in her films and videos. The staged micro-scenarios deal with regulated processes in the corset of family structures, petty-bourgeois ideals and life problems, "West German sense of order", punctuality and cleanliness.

Corinna Schnitt reduces monologues and images to the essential. Her storie…