Breaking Ground 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema
IVAC Valencia Filmoteca Zaragoza Copenhagen Cinematheque @ Danish Film Institute
Paris Centre Pompidou
Caen - Cinematheque
Buenos Aires Bafici Independent Film Festival
Vienna, Filmhaus Spittelberg, February/March 2012
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Sonne halt! Sun Stop! Film ist. - 9 Eroberung Film Is. 1 – movement and time
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In the twentieth century Austria’s film industry was particularly active, with directors like Fritz Lang, Joseph von Sternberg, Billy Wilder and Otto Preminger, all of whom emigrated to the United States, and more recently Michael Haneke, Ulrich Seidl, Barbara Albert and Jessica Hausner. Less known and recognized outside the festival circuit and museums are the various forms of avant-garde moving images that without a doubt have been one of the key artistic forms in Austrian culture these past fifty years and continue to play an increasingly important role in the remarkable richness and diversity of Austrian cultural identity. This identity goes far beyond the clichés of Viennese cafés, Baroque palaces, waltzes and classical music to encompass the radicalism of writers like Thomas Bernhard, Elias Canetti, Franz Kafka and Elfriede Jelinek, and artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Klimt, Hermann Nitsch and Egon Schiele, not to mention the architects and philosophers who have engendered major influences on the world stage. This selection continues in the same vein with cutting-edge films and videos.
Brent Klinkum has directed Transat Vidéo since it’s creation in 1994. Based in Caen, France, Transat Vidéo proposes yearly around a hundred different screening programs in cafés, galleries, museums, cinemas, festivals, fine art schools, in the countryside. With few exceptions programs are inspired by themes in relation to the context in which they are screened. Flipbooks, photos, performances, sound works, readings by actors regularly accompany the films and videos. Transat Vidéo also curates several exhibitions every year, co-produces installations and videos.
Amongst his parallel activities Brent Klinkum has been jury member of numerous international film and media art festivals, jury member of Fine Art school diplomas (Le Fresnoy, École Sup de l’image Angoulème) and participated in the preselection comitees of various festivals. Since 2004 he is member of the New Media collection of the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. His curatorial activities includes exhibition and audiovisual programs in Paris, Caen, Zürich, Amien, Vienna, Brussels, Berlin, Zagreb, ... |
