Special film 4 - tricky women, Austria
Date & Time: 10/23 (WED) 18:30
Location: Literary Arts Ecology Hall K301
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| On The Bottom of the Laundrybag | Adele Razkövi | 0+ | Austria | 2021 | 07:00 | The short film deals with a common myth—the empty laundry basket. Starting from the documentary, most likely autobiographical, and in any case philosophical question of what might be hiding at the bottom of the laundry basket if it were ever to be reached, the protagonist positions herself for the leap. |
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| Lava Garden | Ingrid Gaier | 0+ | Austria | 2021 | 04:02 | A tribute to the Austrian philosopher, sculptor and poet Melitta Urbancic, who fled with her family to Iceland in 1938 to escape the National Socialists. This film is dedicated to Lava Garden, to one of her poems, in which she describes the impressive landscape of Iceland and the simultaneous longing for her place of origin. |
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| Mindset | Veronika Schubert | 0+ | Austria | 2021 | 06:00 | As in a modified computer game from bygone times, we glide through an animated labyrinth in a point-of-view perspective. We first turn the corners over and over, past walls tiled with circular visual elements from various advertising brochures. |
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| The Goose and the Common | Shadab Shayegan | 0+ | Austria | 2021 | 03:59 | A goose is robbed of her eggs – and of the ground beneath her feet – when a road is rolled out in the countryside. Searching in vain for her eggs, she gets lost in labyrinthine buildings. Together with other geese she eventually forms a resistance movement. A music video for Heaven Sent Cat, based on a 17th-century protest song against land-grabbing by the privileged classes. |  |
| Collapsing Mies | Claudia Larcher | 0+ | Austria | 2020 | 07:00 | An exploration of Mies van der Rohe that does not present his architectural innovation as a perfect greater whole. Instead, animated photographs break it down into its individual elements, intertwining inside and outside. This creates spaces that deconstruct, rotate, overlap, recompose - and open up completely new perspectives. |  |
| Sympoietic Bodies | Flavia Mazzanti | 15+ | Austria | 2020 | 11:12 | The body is decentred, deconstructed, and considered to be the result of various interactions and relations. Borders are substituted by linking network systems, rigid walls by flexible membranes. Fragments dissolve and transform into new skins, new bodies. |
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| Under the Microscope | Michaela Grill | 12+ | Austria, Canada | 2021 | 07:05 | An experimental work builds on scientific films from the 1920s, with close-ups of cell divisions, timelapse footage of growing fungi, pollen distribution and so on. They become a psychedelic feast for the third eye, where the screen seems to be exploding time and again. Welcome to the Pleasure Dome! |
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| Me, Myself and I | Claudia Larcher | AI 12+ |
Austria | 2022 | 05:29 | The self is an elusive thing. It exists, is essential, present, active, and yet we cannot grasp it. This film tries, nevertheless. From 350 photographs of herself and using artificial intelligence (GAN: Generative Adversarial Network), Claudia Larcher generates a constantly morphing, distorting and deforming self-portrait. |  |
| Issues with My Other Half | Anna Vasof | 15+ | Austria | 2022 | 05:30 | The unpleasant loss of controllability of the body is mixed in with the pleasurable and imaginative transformation of everyday objects and processes to make tangible the illusionary character of cinema and the persistence of vision. |
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| Sammer-Frau Sammer | Katarina Michelitsch | 6+ | Austria | 2019 | 03:41 | At the bottom of the sea, we meet feminist underwater creatures who face a neighbourhood conflict. Four women playing: with themselves, with social expectations, with the computer, keyboard, bass and vocals - shrill and quiet, virtuoso and virtual, amateurish and absolutely professional. A music video as an ode to the joy of living. |  |