Karl-Heinz Klopf

My art work orbits the subject of the constructed environment and urban living spaces which are negotiated in different ways in the films selected for the program. Abstraction, narration and documentation are explored using experimental work methods. While in the animation Studio the spatial skeleton of my own studio and e-mail messages become the starting point for a fragile space time continuum, in 60 Seconds in the Color of my Shirt it is the elapse of time and the color of my own shirt that form a fictitious diagrammatic curve. The filmic concept for Tower House originates in the connective structure of the stairway of the eponymous building by Takamitsu Azuma (Tokyo, 1966). The circling panorama shots, carried out step by step, become the determining element of the directing. (Karl-Heinz Klopf)

Film Program

Karl-Heinz Klopf
Studio, 2000, 8 min
60 Sekunden in den Farben meines Hemdes (60 Seconds in the Color of my Shirt), 2006, 1 min
Tower House, 2013, 62 min

Followed by a conversation between Karl-Heinz Klopf and Christa Blümlinger.

Karl-Heinz Klopf lives in Vienna. Exhibitions/Festivals (selection): Display of the Century – Frederick Kiesler and Contemporary Art, Austrian Cultural Forum New York (2015); Duisburger Filmwoche (2014); Image Forum Festival, Tokyo (2014); Liverpool Biennale (2010); Istanbul Biennale (2005); Planen, Secession, Vienna (1993); Cities on the Move (1997–2000).

Christa Blümlinger is a professor of film studies at the Université Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis and is also active as a critic and curator. Numerous published articles and books especially on film theory, documentary and avantgarde film and media art. Publications in German include: Kino aus zweiter Hand. Formen materieller Aneignung im Film und in der Medienkunst (2009). Most recent publication: Cinémas (24/2–3), 2014, “Attrait de l’archive“ (guest issue).