What is a disability - or just as importantly, what images, sounds and complex forms of behavior go hand in hand with it or can be made tangible? Blind Taste explores this question on the basis of a walk by two blind people. Images or impressions from the staged everyday life of the protagonist Hiltraud Schmidt - a spastic - and her companion Fran…
Three films - three movements. In a 360-degree camera pan, divided into three slightly delayed image fields, Pan undertakes a short, practically endless journey, only to return to the starting point again and again. monroc uses three formal, abstract individual episodes to enter the interiors of a ruined house and suggests a fictitious story, pure…
Being young in the country, a waiting situation on a film set, an idiosyncratic conversation between a man and a woman, and a science fiction story based on a story by American author Samuel R. Dalany: These are the "main features" of a program whose sequence is repeatedly broken up by short animations - the eponymous Boring, Falling, Loving. It i…
It is a cinematic adaptation of the notes of Dr. Daniel Paul Schreber, the son of the famous educator Schreber, the inventor of the so-called "Schreber Gardens", a nervous patient and former director of the regional court in Chemnitz. (...) The individual chapters of his book - in a movie they would be called episodes - are self-contained, therefo…
Since his first relevant film, which he completed at the age of 22, Siegfried A. Fruhauf has been represented at all major international festivals - including Cannes and Venice - and has received numerous awards. The titles of his films and videos illustrate his interest in the elementary building blocks of cinematography. With his metric montage …
The dialog with modernism, which Kren helped shape so decisively, can be traced in most of his 49 films. Dadaist realism was not lacking either - in Venecia Broken, On the Peacock Island, Ready-made and in his Expanded Movies.
In the "bad home movies" made in the USA, Kren finds a late, stylistically new formulation of his visual intelligence. He c…
For years, abstract films and videos from Austria have been causing a sensation at international festivals. Located at the interface between music and moving image, these films are mostly characterized by digital animation, the reduction to small but all the more striking graphic elements, but in any case by a preference for abstract motifs. As sy…
All Can Become A Rose can be read programmatically: Born in 1939, the multimedia artist Linda Christanell uses found objects, especially decorative props, which are associated with women and their erotic fantasies. The sexually connoted objects such as earrings, brooches, feathers, crystals, shoes, mirrors and even roses tell stories of desire or …
On the border between visibility and invisibility. Phantom images of a political reality, merely footnoted in daily reporting.
In FORTRESS:HOME, flickering, disappearing film footage accompanies tourist information texts on the "emergence" of the country as moments of memory of a childhood in the borderland. In the equally disturbing and lyrical …
The art scene is the starting point for Grosse Liebe, an early, smug film by Ferry Radax, in which a young painter loses his patron and lover in a mysterious car accident. As he searches for clues at the scene of the accident, he arrives at a gate that leads him into a kind of afterlife. Acoustically, Josef Dabernig's Rosa coeli leads us into a ca…