Pools, parks, beaches, a cemetery, an apartment, a hedge, a shopping street, garbage and scrap metal—interspersed with animals and people, plants and plastic, pillars, accessories, colors, and melodies. Between reality and fantasy, simulation and parody, this film program brings together idiosyncratic artistic positions that move through surreal landscapes, industrial ruins, iconic architecture or eclectic, trashy, and everyday backdrops in different times. The films reference each other and offer loose ends and commentaries on the present. “It's all about the future, although the future never comes” (Pippa Garner).

Program

Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, Im Garten der gelben G., 1985, 9 min
M.M. Serra, Jack Smith’s Apartment, 1990, 9 min
Jack Smith, Yellow Sequence, 1963, 15 min
Barbara Hammer, Barbara Klutinis, Pools, 1982, 6 min
Vivienne Dick, Two Little Pigeons, 1990, 5 min
Kamilla Bischof, Princess Bone, 2022, 10 min
P. Staff, La Nuit Américaine, 2023, 13 min
Mariah Garnett, Dynasty Handbag (Jibz Cameron), Oh, Hummingbird, 2017, 3 min

In the white space:
Jack Goldstein, Some Butterflies, 1975, 30 s (looped)

Presented by Kathrin Wojtowicz

Kathrin Wojtowicz is an artist living in Vienna. She is interested in the connections between social conditions, body politics, and media. She has curated film programs for Kunsthalle Bremerhaven and Kunstraum Schwaz. She currently teaches photography and contemporary art at the University of Arts Linz.