THE BIRTH OF VENUS
The Birth of Venus is a little gem that deserves special attention. A short film that tells the story of the world we live in and also gives us powerful, magnetic images.
Category: 1970
THE ENDLESS SANDWICH
The endless Sandwich does not simply want to reflect on the act of watching. Likewise, what Peter Weibel wanted to show us is how images (and, in a more general sense, cinema) are closely related to the spectator himself and the effect they have on him.
ALKESTE – DIE BEDEUTUNG, PROTEKTION ZU HABEN
Greek mythology has found an ideal adaptation in Alkeste – Die Bedeutung, Protektion zu haben, for a story of love and death set in a rugged – but extremely poetic – Vienna of the 1970s. And Euripides’ Alcestis is here staged in a never banal or predictable way, with a directorial approach that at times recalls the French Nouvelle Vague.
BAROQUE STATUES
The short film Baroque Statues proves to be a decisive forerunner of the turn that would take painter Maria Lassnig’s poetics in the years to come. Perfectly faithful to what the artist had already realised in painting, the central figure is precisely the human body, always seen as a prison, whose forms take on ever less defined characteristics, aiming for an ideal final liberation.