- Film Poster, Schindler's Houses
The collaboration between the Austrian Cultural Forum New York and the Film Anthology Archives presents a series of film screenings, showcasing Austrian cinema past and present. The July and August 2009 program featured a retrospective devoted to the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidel and included a screening of his latest feature film Import/Export. This fall, the ongoing project will present films by filmmakers Heinz Emigholz, Carmen Tartarotti, and Gustav Deutsch.
Heinz Emigholz’s Schindler’s Houses and Goff in the Desert are both parts of his Photography and Beyond project, a series documenting works of writing, design, and, in particular, architecture. Filmed in and around Los Angeles in 2006, Schindler’s Houses documents 40 houses of Austro-American architect Rudolf M. Schindler. Emigholz shot the documentary Goff in the Desert during a 9,200-mile journey across the US. It shows 62 buildings – from small gas stations to representative museums – designed by Bruce Goff (1904-1982). Goff, a self-taught architect, sparked legendary controversies during his lifetime, and his work paved the way for new, as yet unimaginable avenues in architecture.
> Schindler's Houses Screening Information
> Goff in the Desert Screening Information
- Film still from FILM IST.
Undertaken as a collaboration between Austrian poet and writer Friederike Mayröcker and filmmaker Carmen Tartarotti, Writing and Keeping Silent: The Poet Friederike Mayröcker is a portrait examining the full scope of the writer’s daily life. As Tartarotti herself did, the viewer enters into the rhythms of the poet’s working life, witnessing spontaneous moments and watching as she retreats into her inner world of images. The result is an intimate observation – unspectacular and thus all the more engaging.
Gustav Deutsch’s twelve-part Film Ist: A Girl & a Gun is a breathtakingly ambitious series of found-footage works. In this film, Deutsch patches together a vast collection of silent-film imagery, assembling a wide spectrum of genres, stretching from the erotic to the scientific. He composes a highly suggestive, quasi-narrative, but essentially enigmatic mosaic that demonstrates both the wealth of fascinating early 20th-century documentation, as well as the sheer diversity of human experience reflected through the cinema.
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