All Can Become A Rose. Films by Linda Christanell

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 play around fragmentary portraits of women. The artificial female existence composed of cultural codes, represented by still lifes and lavish decorations, presents them in their ambivalence: as accessories of a self-confident eroticism and as mementos of past injuries and transient ecstasy. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)

Program
It was a strange day (A 1979, 16 mm, stumm, 7 min.)
Meomsa // nach Texten von Friederike Mayröcker (A 1988, 16mm, 43 min.)
Aline Carola (A 1990, 16mm, 7 min.)
Picture Again (A 2002, 16mm, stumm, 10 min.)