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Exquisite Ectasies
Approaching the Exquisite Corpus was an alternative title we considered for this DVD release. It would have indicated how the films introduced here from my early Super 8 phase already evidence an artistically consistent path leading to my most recent…
Praxis selection
Brehm's Praxis series is driven by a spirit of enterprise that is clearly palpable: Since 1974 Dietmar Brehm has been sensuously modulating his private iconography in ever new variations, ceaselessly engaged with his ever growing image and sound a…
Burning Down the Palace
All of these work deal somewhat with a fake factor. Part Time Heroes handles the star concept, in a larger than life way; Running Sushi refers to comics and manga. Burning Palace, on the other hand, is based on The Art of Seduction. (...) For the hum…
Optical Vacuum
Nowhere else is talk of the »panoptic era« an eye that sees everything yet remains elusive clearer than in the medium that has taken omnipresence and fleetingness to a global scale: the Internet. On the Internet, the paradigm known thus far for ou…
Exposed
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 sa…
Notes on Marie Menken
Notes on Marie Menken explores the almost forgotten story of the legendary artist Marie Menken (1909-1970) who became one of New York´s outstanding underground experimental filmmakers of the 1940s through the 1960s, inspiring artists such as Stan Bra…
Thomas Bernhard - Three Days
Thomas Bernhard - Three Days A Film by Ferry RadaxOriginal version with English, French and Spanish subtitles I Germany 1970, 52 min, Concept & Image: Ferry Radax I Cinematography: Michael Wingens (film), Ferry Radax (video) I Sound: Ben Janse, Editi…
Korperaktionen Bodyworks 1967 - 2003
Most performance artists developed their actions from painting, or to be more precise, from action painting, to which they also remained visually and conceptually bound. My performances differ from other actions performed in the 1960s, for instanc…
ViennaFilm 1896 - 1976
"ViennaFilm 18961976 constitutes the first feature length film completed by Schmidt Jr. It premieres on January 28, 1977 at the Austrian Film Museum; it is screened at Vienna´s Inter-national Film Festival, the Seventh International Forum of New …
Stones & 20 Action and Destruction Films
Stones & 20 Action and Destruction Films 1965-1979. “If I had to name a single Austrian filmmaker who to this day has not received the international recognition deserved for the artistic level his work attained, I would unhesitatingly name him. When…
VISIONARY - Contemporary Short Documentaries and Experimental Fi
This compilation offers an opportunity for a substantial view of Austrian experimental and documentary film´s varied status quo. The works on this DVD range from subjective to rigidly structural documentary approaches, from abstract music videos and …
The Seconds Strike Reality
Wien 17, Schumanngasse (1967, 3 minutes), Hernals (1967, 11 minutes), Safety film (1968, 6 minutes), Sugar daddies (1968, 9 minutes), Eroticon sublim (1968, 2 minutes), Der ort der zeit (1985, 40 minutes), Prince of peace (1993, 8 minutes), (Calcutta…
Animation Films
'Baroque statues' (1970-74, 15 min), 'Iris' (1971, 10 min), 'Chairs' (1971, 2 min), 'Selfportrait' (1971, 4:30 min), 'Shapes' (1972, 9 min), 'Couples' (1972, 9 min), 'Palmistry' (1973, 10 min), 'Art education' (1976, 8 min), 'Maria Lassnig Kantate-th…
Invisible adversaries
Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with …
3 experimental short films
Austrian artist Valie Export has been an influential and provocative figure on the international art scene for over three decades. Her practice includes film, video, photography, text and performance. Initially expanding the Actionist project to conf…
Synaesthetic videos from Austria
A DVD release celebrating the extraordinary young video and electronic music scene in Austria. These are radical avant-garde works that emerge logically from modern electronic music. The images sometimes tie in with the earliest pure abstract avant-g…
Depiction is a crime. Video works 1969-1975
Born on March 5, 1945 in Odessa, Ukraine. Having fled to Austria, he grew up in Ried im Innkreis, Upper Austria. When graduating from school in 1963 he studied French, film and comparative literature for a year in Paris before transferring to medicin…