Dóra Maurer — Thinking in Proportions

A sheet is folded: a total of seven times, each time completed by a folding process. The resulting grid corresponds in each case to the projection format of a 16mm film, which in turn measures exactly the length of Dóra Maurer's two outstretched arms: Timing - a conceptually and visually haunting key work of structural film. The cinematographic recording apparatus and its synesthetic possibilities represent a core theme of Maurer's film work. Inter-Images 1-3 explores cinematic masking techniques, while Triolets explores perceptual boundaries via lens changes, motion sequences, and varying sound. Maurer's visually forced image and sound work also leads into abstraction. Kalah translates an ancient Arabic game into a visual piece of music; Relative Schwingungen uses recording techniques for a composition of light and movement. (ds)  

Program
Timing / Idömérés, 1973/1980, s/w, 10 min (16mm)Learned Perfunctorily Movements / Angelernte unwillkürliche Bewegungen, 1973, s/w, 9 min (16mm)Inter-Images 1-3, 1989/90, Farbe, 17 min (16mm) Triolets / Triolák, 1980/81, s/w, 12 min  Relative Swingings / Relative Schwingungen, 1973/75, s/w, 10 min  Kalah, 1980, Farbe, 10 min   

The program will be accompanied by a conversation with Dóra Maurer and Dietmar Schwärzler (sixpackfilm).

Dóra Maurer (*1937 in Budapest); filmmaker, graphic artist and painter. From 1955-1961 she attended the Budapest College of Fine Arts (graphic arts). In addition to international awards, she receives a working scholarship for Vienna in 1967; the Austrian State Scholarship for Fine Arts in 1987; Austrian Working Scholarship for Film in 1989. After teaching in intermedia free schools in Hungary she gets a guest professorship (audiovisual course) at the Academy of Applied Arts in Budapest in 1987 and her own interdisciplinary painting class at the Academy of Fine Arts Budapest in 1990. Lively international exhibition activity. Since the late 1960s she has lived and worked in Vienna and Budapest.   

A joint event of Mumok and sixpackfilm.