Intrigue and Ronches
“No matter when, no matter where I´ll be, I´m looking for a woman that will satisfy me.” A penis performs a cult hit by the Sonics, swings its “hips” and gathers a group of vaginas around it. As groupies do, they are looking to be close to the lead singer, but things turn out differently.
Chairs
Apparently drawn quickly on paper with a felt-tip pen, various kinds of chairs resemble breathing beings. Accompanied by an out-of-tune piano playing music for a silent film, they begin to move. Sketches of the objects’ incarnation resemble both slapstick and a threat. (Maya McKechneay)
Syntagma
My work in the area of short film focuses on working out what is essential to a film, to define it as a self-sufficient and closed artistic system; so that I can make use of the single operators, such as image and sound and expand on their creative possibilities of association. The actual significant operators […]
NabelFabel
In NavelFable Mara Mattuschka subject herself to a second birth through endless pairs of tights. Her body struggles so hard and in such a deformed manner from out of the layers of nylon that the sheer struggle for survival becomes visible. (Peter Tscherkassky)
C-TV (If I Tell You I Like You…)
The earth has been shaken, the television studio destroyed, C-TV goes on air: Hedi, the plush talk show host welcomes people with disabilities who offer insight into their daily lives and their artistic and political work. An (unfortunately) fictitious TV show opposing the tyranny of a heteronormative and ableist society: radical, critical of representation, humorous, […]
Prototipo
Exploding with saturated light, colour, movement and synaesthetic sound, ’Prototipo is a perception shifting audiovisual work based on two live recordings by General Magic ∞ Tina Frank in 2022 in Vienna and London. Having pioneered advanced relationships between audio and visual at the dawn of the digital age this collaborative project resurrected itself in 2022 […]
Smoked Sauna Sisterhood
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
Fallen Leaves
The story of two lonely people who meet each other by chance in the Helsinki night and try to find the first, only, and ultimate love of their lives. Their path towards this honourable goal is clouded by the man’s alcoholism, lost phone numbers, not knowing each other’s names or addresses, and life’s general tendency […]
The Teachers’ Lounge
“What happens in the staff room stays in the staff room,” says Carla Nowak in an interview with the school newspaper. Even if that is purely wishful thinking for the teacher at this point. This is her first job, and she is committed to teaching mathematics and physical education to her class of seventh graders. […]
Sur l’ Adamant
The “Adamant” day care centre is one of a kind: it is floating. Located on the Seine, in the heart of Paris, it welcomes adults suffering from mental disorders, offering them care that grounds them in time and space and helps them to recover or maintain their morale. The team that runs the center is […]