MOUNTAIN TRIP
Mountain Trip is a cinematic myriorama constructed of hundreds of Austrian postcards, which reflect a country’s hackneyed trappings as no other medium can.
Austria 1999 / 16 mm / 4:00 / Director: Siegfried A. Fruhauf
I AM ME
Twins look alike. Sometimes they even think alike. But they are two rather than one. I Am Me is in part about the fact that an individual is more than the sum of his or her characteristics, and partly about the fact that a person is neither what other people say about them nor their own description of themselves. And photographs and moving images are nothing more than representations.
Austria 2006 / 33:00 / Director: Kathrin Resetarits
OUTER SPACE
A woman, terrorised by an invisible and aggressive force, is also exposed to the audience’s gaze, a prisoner in two senses. Outer Space agitates this construction, which is prototypical for gender hierarchies and classic cinema’s viewing regime, and allows the protagonist to turn them upside down.
Austria 1999 / 35 mm / 10:00 / Director: Peter Tscherkassky
JOHN LAUTNER, THE DESERT HOT SPRINGS MOTEL
“Ten days after I stopped writing pornographic stories, I met William Burroughs,” is how the voiceover in Sasha Pirker’s short film begins an autobiographical story. The picture shows a few views of wind turbines in the barren area around the spa of Desert Hot Springs, which is located about 150 kilometres east of Los Angeles. Like the person which belongs to the voice, the building at which the camera stops is revealed gradually. It’s the Desert Hot Springs Motel (built in 1947), which was designed by the architect John Lautner (1911-1994).
Austria 2007 / 10:34 / Director: Sasha Pirker
COPY SHOP
The story of a man who copies himself until he fills up the entire world.
Austria 2001 / 35 mm / 12:00 / Director: Virgil Widrich
ALGO-RHYTHM
Convenience, not choice. Efficiency, not freedom. Frictionless experience: a data musical against automated propaganda. The film, shot in Dakar with the participation of leading Senegalese musicians, poets, and graffiti artists, probes the insidious but comprehensive threats to human rights and agency posed by the rise of the quantification and algorithmic management of daily life.
Austria, United Kingdom, Senegal 2019 / 14:00 / Director: Manu Luksch
VINTAGE PRINT
A triptych of media over time turns into a stunning journey of discovery as a photographic landscape scenario becomes animated to the rhythm of chirping crickets hopping back and forth between the filmic medium and the digital.
Austria 2015 / 13:00 / Director: Siegfried A. Fruhauf