Two architecturally minded miniatures by Philipp Fleischmann punctuate this programme of works that offer diverse reflections on the ways the world is seen, heard, and felt. Also featuring films by Helena Wittmann, Mary Helena Clark, Ben Rivers, Toshio Matsumoto, Laida Lexturndi, and Lawrence Abu Hamdan.
Wavelengths 2: Another Brick In The Wall
Playing as part of this programme:
mumok kino
Philipp Fleischmann's mumok kino is a thrilling miniature portrait of the Viennese cinema, as seen through stuttering, flickering glimpses of walls and other surfaces in a pure play of light and shadow.
Walled Unwalled
In the haunting Walled Unwalled the artist and self-described "private ear" Lawrence Abu Hamdan recounts three different stories related to walls, alongside their concomitant social, legal, and psychological ramifications.
TREES DOWN HERE
Wedding architecture, animals, John Cage, and John Ashbery... artist and filmmaker Ben Rivers returns to the festival with the beautiful, enigmatic TREES DOWN HERE.
1986 Summer
A previously unseen short by the Japanese avant-garde titan, Toshio Matsumoto's 1986 Summer locates faces and bodies within superimpositions, zooms, a lightning-fast montage of brick structures and verdant trees.
Ada Kaleh
An indeterminate location, summer. The inhabitants of a shared apartment ask themselves where they might live. They imagine countries, communities, and places. Time passes and nothing can change that — neither human action nor objects and their states. At some point, they all drift into a deep sleep.
The Glass Note
With The Glass Note, the ever-inventive Mary Helena Clark offers an eerie and surprising reflection on cinema, voice and embodiment, by way of stones, skin, and CGI.
The Invisible Cinema 3
A work of maximalist minimalism, a chorus of lights dance in darkness in Philipp Fleischmann's The Invisible Cinema 3, inspired by Peter Kubelka's famed movie-going structure of the same name.
Words, Planets
Shot in Cuba and California, Laida Lertxundi's Words, Planets extends from the filmmaker's twin interests in landscapes and portraiture by incorporating fruit, Wong Kar-wai, Raúl Ruiz, cacti, the words of Lucy Lippard and R.D Laing, and power-pop.