The filmmaker Gunvor Nelson wants her works to be called "personal films"; "avant-garde" or "experimental" sound too cool to her. Born in Stockholm in 1931, she went to San Francisco in the early 1950s to study art and painting. There she met her future husband Robert Nelson and, like him, was an important figure in the West Coast art scene, but w…
With Claudio Caldini (*1952, Buenos Aires) and Pablo Marín (*1982, Buenos Aires), two of Argentina's most important experimental filmmakers are showing their works in Austria for the first time. The two individual presentations will be accompanied by both a historical programme, which will give an insight into the different aesthetic orient…
Film Program Sunday June 4, 2017 at the Austrian Film Museum
Live Performance: Space Noise 3D Monday June 5, 2017 at RHIZ Vienna
Makino Takashi, born in 1978 in Tokyo, creates works of ecstatic excess enabling experiences in the moment of their projection that are generally postponed to a later time—as if one remembered the images in t…
In the beginning there was black. The black of the cinema space or the black cube of an exhibition venue envelops us (ideally without exit lights), leaving us disoriented at first, without coordinates for a reliable perception of space. "The darkness that I like is the darkness of a movie theater," is how Anouk de Clercq describes her penchant for…
A sheet is folded: a total of seven times, each time completed by a folding process. The resulting grid corresponds in each case to the projection format of a 16mm film, which in turn measures exactly the length of Dóra Maurer's two outstretched arms: Timing - a conceptually and visually haunting key work of structural film. The cinematogra…
Program
IF 6 WAS 9
1997, 35mm (Dolby Surround), 10 min
CONSOLATION SERVICE
1999, 35mm (Dolby Digital), 25 min
FISHERMEN / Études no. 1
2007, DVD, 5 min
THE ANNUNCIATION
2011, DCP (Dolby Digital), 35 min
Eija-Liisa Ahtila has conceived expansive, cinematographic installations with a narrative core, whose suspension of time and space is characteri…
In May 2014, one program item was devoted to the work of Friedl vom Gröller (known as Friedl Kubelka as a photographer), who has created a cinematographic œuvre in a comparatively short time, the richness of which stems from both the multiplicity of her works and the reduction of her means. The three-part event - a cooperation between A…
Roee Rosen is a person who appears in many guises and tempts speculation. Over several years, he worked in several forms of media expression (painting, book, film/Two Women and a Man) on a feminist prototype with the name Justine Frank, who appeared in the surrealist environment in Paris in the 1920s, had an affair with George Bataille, among othe…
The evening begins with two early documentary videos by Yael Bartana, which express her critical attitude towards the everyday rituals and ceremonies of the Israeli population.
Out of "disappointed love" for her homeland, which she perceives as a huge ghetto, the artist switched to fictional works.
Her Polish Trilogy, which was subsequently shown, …
In recent years, young Canadian experimental filmmaking has attracted increased international attention. The epicentre of this new development is Montréal, where twelve filmmakers joined forces in 2004 to form the Double Negative Collective. The collective's artists are united by the common goal of finding a radically personal film language…