Different/Same/Both/Neither
This film establishes a tactile connection between personal body and the filmic body. It delves into the flexible and versatile aspects of the human body. On the other hand, it reveals the body of the film material, the filmstrip itself. It x-rays the concrete images on its surface and its abstract elements exposed to light. […]
Hacking at Leaves
Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts to come to terms with the United States’ colonial past, Navajo tribal history, and the hacker movement. The story hones in on a small tinker space in Durango, Colorado, that made significant contributions to worldwide COVID relief efforts. But things go awry […]
Hacking the Streets
This experimental video deals with the appropriation of urban space and the perception of architecture by the subculture of skateboarders. The book: “Skateboarding, Space and the City: Architecture and the Body” by contemporary architectural theoretician Iain Borden provides the notional basis for the film. A dense visual texture of manipulated found footage of various skate […]
Another Europe
Another Europe is an essay film rooted in experimental cinema and queer storytelling. A female narrator (fellow artist Kathi Hofer) provides the Voice Over for this film, making it a reflection on my life and my journey through Europe from 2019-2020. Associative spaces unfold. A train of thoughts. The boundaries between factual and memories become […]
Mono
A mystical film on monolithic architecture, monophonic music and the ancient female* old. A piece about stones and single tones. A celebration of slowness. Ghost shots. Ghost space. A phantom (of the past). A dense video-audio dynamic, demanding and minimal, suggests a mysterious background story, a genesis of drone and stones. Alongside with atmospheric static […]
Gefrorene Musik (Frozen Music)
“Arthur Schopenhauer once said that architecture is frozen music. There seems to be a relationship between architecture and music” -are the first words of this essayistic short film. A female narrator talks about the connection between architecture and music. There is talk about certain music genres, portable mp3-players, modern industrial society, architectural history, sound art […]