Dietmar Brehm, who celebrates his 75th birthday this year, is one of Austria's most distinguished artists. Most recently, in 2020, he was awarded the "Alfred Kubin Prize" by the state of Upper Austria for his extensive Œvre of paintings, drawings and films. Brehm has produced more than 200 cinematic works since the 1970s, initially on Super8…
Today's film bears little resemblance to its zoetrope beginnings. Nevertheless, there are some that take up the original circulation and render it as a thematic or stylistic aspect. In a variety of ways, RICHTUNGSWECHSEL shows images that draw circles. In doing so, they oscillate between movement and standstill, change and permanence.
Fahrtwind, a…
Friedl vom Gröller is a photographer and filmmaker, her first film was made in 1968. Since then, she has realized far more than 100 others. On the occasion of her 75th birthday, we take a look back, which is also intended as a look into the future. In the title film of the program L'AVENIR? DE F.V.G?, the latter is read from kauri shells in a…
We watch films by women* and they watch them: Yes, what then?
The "Views by Women*" programme brings together different ways of looking. Here, female* filmmakers attempt to present their personal, unbiased perspective on the world. Many of these views are not based on film conventions. New perspectives are explored. Beauties are exposed. The scenes…
Austrian experimental and avant-garde cinema has been exploring the deconstruction of female sexuality for more than 50 years. With works by VALIE EXPORT, Maria Lassnig, Anna Spanlang, Kurdwin Ayub, Nana Swiczinsky, Ashley Hans Scheirl and Katrina Daschner, the programme shows positions ranging from queer femininity avant-la-lettre to the gender c…
Adam's Ending begins in a nuanced, light-footed way, as a play with allusions. We accompany two couples, first through the city, then on holiday and back again. One of them, Conrad (David Winter) and Carmen (Paula Kalenberg), is only just getting together (and quickly drifting apart again); for the other, Adam (Robert Stadlober) and Anna (Eva-Mari…
I look in the mirror and see myself. I look through the camera and see someone else. I look at the camera, what do I see? Using these three parameters, the films in this program can be sketched, the central theme is the staging of the self or the other. Kren and Muhr portray the travesty artists Dame Edna and Lucy McEvil while Scheirl / Pürre…
Film 1:
Severin Fiala, Ulrike Putzer: Elephant Skin, 2004, 34 min, 35mm (eUT)
Elfi is around fifty and shares a small flat with her mother in provincial Lower Austria. After work, she looks after the old woman, who constantly makes requests and complains, but never has a good word for her daughter.
Over the years, Elfi has acquired a protective la…
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The desire for knowledge was a driving force behind Muybridge's (animal) movement studies and thus the birth of chronophotography as a precursor to cinema. Animals have always been protagonists of film, even in its experimental manifestations: as strange creatures, as objects of study and as mirrors for man's own bestiality. A programme of encount…
We watch films by women* and they watch them: Yes, what then?
The "Views by Women*" programme brings together different ways of looking. Here, female* filmmakers attempt to present their personal, unbiased perspective on the world. Many of these views are not based on film conventions. New perspectives are explored. Beauties are exposed. The scenes…