Conditio Humana is a perfect example of how a short film can be about contrasts, be personal and speak to all of humanity at the same time, and ultimately keep us thinking about human beings, who have always been caught between important opposites like past and present, good and evil, fragility and stability. At the Viennale 2025.
Jelena is a particularly poetic and contemplative work, which draws heavily on what has been made in the past, while showing its own identity and personality. At the Viennale 2024.
In Uscita di Sicurezza, a (seemingly) simple and essential directorial approach conveyed perfectly what Friedl vom Gröller wanted to communicate to us. The intense close-up of the protagonist then did the rest. At the Viennale 2024.
Rudimentary black-and-white and images shot exclusively on film are further protagonists in Palmer. Friedl vom Gröller has an unmistakable style and with her essential approach she manages to give each individual frame a profound meaning every time. At the Viennale 2023.
Der gestohlene Brief slowly reveals itself to be much more complex and symbolic than it might initially seem. Cinema has the task of acting as an essential messenger, but also of ensuring that old letters belonging to the past can also have their own impact on the present. At the Viennale 2023.
Neue Fenster is a kind of “return to the origins”, when we still had to become familiar with this new, bizarre invention that was the cinematograph. Just as the light from the projector illuminates the screen, the light coming in through the new windows at vom Gröller’s house is about to offer us not one, but many new spectacles. At the Viennale 2022.
In Drowned, we see how Friedl vom Gröller staged her own death. To this end, therefore, the director made use of no less than two forms of artistic expression (poetry and music), in order to realise an entirely new and subjective work that finds its definitive fulfilment in film. At the Viennale 2022.
2020 shows us what we have not been able to see in recent months. And it does so in an ironic but also highly provocative way. Friedl vom Gröller shows us an unusual 2020, a ‘forbidden’ 2020, which in sharp black and white almost takes on the connotations of a dream. At the Viennale 2021.
Das Rad by Friedl vom Gröller is the dream of a child. Or rather, of two children. Das Rad is a journey back in time, a return to childhood, a new discovery of oneself and the world around us. A new way of understanding reality that also reminds us of the great cinema of the past. At the Viennale 2021.