Faces

Mirrors of the soul, breathtaking facial landscapes, places of emotion and empathy. It was not only feature films that discovered the human face early and permanently and subsequently made it a preferred object of the camera. The face has also always been a popular motif in film and video art.

The approaches collected in Faces could hardly be more different: from the structural short-cut montage by Kren and Schmidt jr, the almost motionless portrait, which is not motionless after all (vom Gröller / Goldt), the precisely and humorously edited advertising film finds (Kubelka) to the painted and computer-generated animations (Lassnig/Bruckmayr) and the observations of people in ecstasy and maximum concentration (Russell/Dijkstra). The same applies to all of them: faces tell stories. (Gerald Weber)

Program
49/95 tausendjahrekino (Kurt Kren, A 1995, 5 min.)
Poetry and Truth (Peter Kubelka, A 1996/2003, 13 min, silent)
Parents (father/mother) (Friedl vom Gröller, A 1997, 6 min, silent)
Selfportrait (Maria Lassnig, A 1971, 5 min.)
36/78 Rischart (Kurt Kren, A1978, 3min, silent)
Mein Begräbnis ein Erlebnis (Ernst Schmidt jr., A 1977, 1 min, silent)
12 o'clock noon - High Noon (Ernst Schmidt jr., A 1977, 4 min.)
Hen Party (Friedl vom Gröller, A 2009, 3 min, silent)
i deeply regret (Karø Goldt, A/D 2009, 2 min.)
i am sad (Didi Bruckmayr, A 2003, 4 min.)
Black and White Trypps nr. 3 (Ben Russell, CDN 2007, 12 min.)
Annemiek (Rineke Dijkstra, NL 1999, 4 min.)