With a highly abstract and minimalist staging and a strong dreamlike component, Bady Minck and Angela Summereder made, with Blut in der Spur, a courageous and innovative work at a time when certain themes could still be considered ‘problematic’. At the Viennale 2025, monography Angela Summereder.
In The Man with Modern Nerves Bady Minck and Stefan Stratil had fun playing with shapes and details, in order to realise a true hymn to beauty and art in all its forms. Time and space become essential players. With the passage of time, Adolf Loos’ project finally became reality in a completely innovative form. In space – understood as both physical space and filmic space – his creation finds its highest fulfilment.
In its complex simplicity, MappaMundi successfully depicts the history not only of our planet, but also of mankind, even hypothesising a (not) too distant, but practically inevitable future. Can there ever really be a definitive end, however? Bady Minck does not want to formulate any precise theory on the matter.
It immediately presents itself as a good blend of arts, Being and Nothingness. Music and film thus give rise to a completely innovative and unique product. And to this end, director Bady Minck has opted for a quite minimalist approach.
If we think of Austrian animation cinema, particularly significant is artist Stefan Stratil’s statement “Austria is a nation of animation films without animation films”. In short: of all possible film genres, animation is the least explored in Austria today. At least apparently.