TB01 (Gl)itchy Skins

Self

Skin as surface, as material, as landscape. Slow movements through changing terrain, wrinkled ravines and flat expanses. New and mysterious structures keep appearing until the image itself becomes porous and the focus disappears. Direction Claudia Larcher Duration 8' Country Austria Year 2015

Die Geburt der Venus

Like folded ink blot images, pictures are reflected over their axis and form a kaleidoscope of ecstatic bodies and lustful frolics. New scope for interpretation appears upside down, reversed, mirror inverted and negatively inverted: “Open up your eyes now, tell me what you see.” Direction Moucle Blackout Duration 5' Country Austria Year 1970

Galaxy

A fleeting encounter between Touch and Long Swipe becomes an algorithmic love story. Distortions appear: a breakdown of the image, an aberration in the story. While hands and objects move in continuous circles, surprisingly sensory tales emerge outside the orbit. Direction Dagmar Schürer Duration 4' Country Austria Year 2020

Sympoetic Bodies

Hybrid organisms break away from the idea of a physical entity. Rigid boundaries become permeable, membranes expand, mutate, are crossed, penetrated. A complex network in constant flux proves that bodies, as Donna Haraway says, don’t end at the skin. Direction Flavia Mazzanti Duration 11' Country Austria Year 2020

Slugs'n'Tongues

A tangle of whispering, murmuring voices becomes a polyphonic love poem. Struggling for air. Tongues flick, smack and roll in moist, soft, crude sounds. A being, sometimes tongue, sometimes slug, against a hairy background. Direction Margareta Klose Duration 4' Country Austria Year 2022

La belle est la bête

A furry tongue. Who is the beautiful beast? Fantastical speculations about the internal and external. Surreal arrays and fluffy surfaces conjure up physical sensations. Cosy dream worlds and eerie objects evade inspection and promote liberation.

Direction Bady Minck Duration 3' Country Austria Year 2005

NabelFabel

Layers of newspaper, mouths and nylon peel away in sync with a heartbeat. A face sheds its skin rebelliously. Distorted grimaces twist and turn through holes – openings to the outside. At the end it feels like there has been an act of liberation. It’s much more than fabric that’s being torn open here. Direction Mara Mattuschka Duration 3' Country Austria Year 1984

Don’t Touch Me When I Start to Feel Safe

Architectural forms morph, expand and fall into each other. The beat becomes more complex, outlines turn into human silhouettes that blur into one another and dissipate. If perception itself is thrown into question, there is no basic structure, no skeleton to rely on. Direction Brigitta Bödenauer Duration 5' Country Austria Year 2003

Embodied Structures - Come Feel My Skins

Movements through dark silvery waters, from darkness into a glossy space. Islands of fleshy sculptural figures and sleek surfaces that fold into skins. Beyond the binary between the organic and artificial, the digital and physical, speculative bodies grant access to magical realities. Direction Cristian Anutoiu Duration 5' Country Austria Year 2021

Lezzieflick

Bodies and two-dimensional images fold into one another, achieving unexpected depth in the zooming in, in the pixelation. A sensual choreography of desires emerges from the manipulation. A blown tyre, shortness of breath and deep sighing. A reappropriation of lesbian pornography. A photo love story, poster sex. Direction Nana Swiczinsky Duration 7' Country Austria Year 2008

Selfportrait

A moving painting of physical sensations. Maria Lassnig in an animated self-portrait, a musical. Revolving around her own head. Idols and projections; Garbo, mother, woman. Becoming a different person, circling around herself. Trying herself out, trying herself on, finding outlines to redraw herself while singing. Direction Maria Lassnig Duration 5' Language English Country Austria Year 1971