Siegfried A. Fruhauf

The fact that Siegfried Fruhauf’s films have a certain hypnotic effect cannot be denied. Battles of material take place in them, they contain reflections and illusions, soundtracks filled with noise and visual interference signals run riot; at the same time all the structural experiments the filmmaker risks never rigidify in the merely theoretical. Fruhauf’s cinema is extremely atmospheric and decidedly non­academic. On the contrary, it presents itself as being radically undogmatic, alternating between ab­ straction and representation, between punk and classicism. (Stefan Grissemann)