Toilette is the contemplation of simple everyday actions, the rediscovery of new rhythms, the enhancement of oneself and of the human body, concrete becoming abstract and vice versa. The black and white images are more alive than ever. Actions and details become pure cinema. Cinema and metacinema. At the Diagonale’22.
Tales from the Vienna Woods is set in the early 1930s, but tells a story that could happen today, as well as tomorrow. Two stage actors introduce the audience to the stories of the protagonists at the Belvedere Gardens. Maximilian Schell’s camera immediately shows us a man from the back as the sun sets. An image that will recur frequently throughout the feature film along with numerous totals and pan shots necessary to maintain a certain detachment.
VALIE EXPORT, born Waltraud Lehner, in Human Females draws her inspiration from past works, while at the same time developing her own language, without being afraid to experiment. The focus is on women in all their possible aspects.