Maria Lassing
Austria 1971, 2'
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)
Maria Lassing
Director

Maria Lassing

Maria Lassing (1919-2014) was an awarded painter and a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. Together with Arnulf Rainer and Oswald Oberhuber, she founded informal painting in Austria; a key concept of her art is body awareness. Since 1970, she has made films which she created autodidacticly,…

Read More

Films