Jan Soldat is one of the most unconventional filmmakers of our time, his films have been shown at renowned festivals such as Cannes, the Berlinale, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary, as well as at short, porn and niche festivals. His films can be roughly categorized into two groups of works:
1. date films, special documentary forms, which successively cr…
MONOGRAPHIE / Viennale
A cooperation between Viennale and sixpackfilm, curated by Daniela Zahlner and Dietmar Schwärzler.
Programm 1: TRANCE
with a concert/Live act by JUNG AN TAGEN
TEOCALLI, 2024, 41 min
20.10.2024, 7.00 p.m., Filmmuseum
TEOCALLI is one of the most recent productions by Los Ingrávidos, whose ever-…
"The beginning began with a downfall as always when I begin," wrote artist and filmmaker Friederike Pezold in 1979 about the creation of her film Toilette. At this point the work had already celebrated its premiere at the Berlinale Forum. Downfall was averted and a virtue was made out of necessity. This already establishes some of the core, resist…
Cause of Death (AT/ZA 2020, 20 min)
When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Black Man (AT/ZA 2017, 10 min)
Loving in Between (AT/ZA 2023, 18 min)
Jyoti Mistry’s archival trilogy on race, gender, and sexuality deals with the racialization of Black masculinity and racist violence, intersectional sexism and femicide, queer sexuality and love. The footage …
Who is Susan Mogul? Part of the answer to this question can be found in the pioneering video artworks she made in the early 1970s, which took the form of a performative autobiography staged before the camera. If what we see is to be believed, then Susan Mogul is a decidedly witty feminist with an engaging and expressive laugh, whose work focuses o…
Hito Steyerl needs no introduction. The Munich-born artist, filmmaker, theorist and professor and her work have in the past few years been present at nearly every major event in the art world (documenta, Venice Biennale, Skulptur Projekte Münster, etc.) and she is perceived as one of the most influential contemporary artists. Encompassing eve…
Christiana Perschon approaches her “chosen relatives” Tatjana Gamerith, Linda Christanell, Karin Mack, Lieselott Beschorner, and Isolde Maria Joham without putting the act of documenting or visualizing in the limelight. “To me, this is about the instant of recording,” says Perschon, “a total experience in the moment.&…
How we speak to each other is always shaped by our relationship to the other person, by our social ties. Serpil Turhan, filmmaker, visiting professor at the HfG Karlsruhe and actress in films by Thomas Arslan or Rudolf Thome, among others, emphasizes the form of conversation as a social act that points in different directions and does not automati…
Flatform calls itself a "collective artist" rather than an "artists collective", all steps in the development and production of new projects are defined as collaborative work. Flatform was founded in 2006 by originally three media artists in Milan, today the core consists of Annamaria Martena and Roberto Taroni with changing collaborators.
In their…
Angela Christlieb (born 1965, Southern Germany) studied under VALIE EXPORT and Heinz Emigholz at Berlin's University of the Arts. In 1997, after a series of short film works on S8 and 16mm, she relocated to New York where in 2002 she completed Cinemania, her successful documentary about "movie nerds" (co-directed by Stephen Kijak). Christlieb has …