Sonia Leimer

“The film program Encounter shows works by various artists who look at the subject of territory and the occupation of space. They make use of different filmic means to achieve the appropriation in film of both real and imaginary spaces. They both extend and compress time, they use repetition and enactment. Further strategies include trickery, performative sets, and scripts with holes. These are all filmic attempts to come closer, to build or destroy a space in time.” Sonia Leimer

Film program

Nicolas Jasmin, In the bush of ghosts, 2001, 2 min
John Smith, The Girl Chewing Gum, 1976, 12 min
Barbara Hammer, Bent Time, 1983, 21 min
Alice Könitz, Premonition, 2009, 7 min
Sonia Leimer, Neues Land/New Land/Nowaja Semlja, 2014, 8 min
Sonia Leimer, Western, 2012, 5 min
Catrin Bolt, Parcours, 2010 18 min

Presented by Sonia Leimer

Sonia Leimer lives in Vienna. Exhibitions (selection): WOW!, LAMOA, Los Angeles Museum of Art (2014); Reassembling Past Futures, Austrian Cultural Forum, London (2014); Neither in Motion nor at Rest, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna (2010)