Suchbilder

Three lucid confrontations with artefacts charged with contemporary and life history: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński enters into conversation with nameless people depicted in ethnographic photos from the colonial past of today's Democratic Republic of Congo. Klub Zwei uses the Phaidon publishing house to illuminate a chapter in Austrian publishing and exile history. Hito Steyerl spins a fantastically elastic web of pop-cultural limbo from the search for bondage photographs for which she herself modelled in Tokyo twenty years earlier. (ir)

Program
Unearthing. In Conversation (Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, 2017, DCP, 15min.)
Phaidon - Publishers in Exile (Klub Zwei, 2006, video, 23min.)
Lovely Andrea (Hito Steyerl, 2007, video, 30min.)

LIVING COLLECTION sixpackfilm

After 25 years of mediation work, sixpackfilm's collection brings together a rich selection of all genres, represented by more than 1,500 cinematic works that call out to be shown regularly in Vienna in various contexts. One focus of our collection is on the classics of Austrian experimental film, almost all of which are represented. Many of the historical works are now part of the canon of international film or art history and have a permanent place in international cinemas and museums. The reopening of the Metro Kinokulturhaus and the intimate atmosphere of the Eric Pleskow Hall inspired sixpackfilm to enter into this long-term co-operation with the Filmarchiv Austria.

Short fiction films, avant-garde films, animations, cinematic essays, documentaries and much more that oscillates between these categories will be brought together in individual programmes in the Living Collection sixpackfilm series, not neatly separated according to the usual categorisations. Rather, the focus is on the search for thematic connections, developments, different perspectives and connecting lines, sometimes also in the context of international filmmaking. Historical and contemporary "classics" meet works by filmmakers who have not yet or no longer received the attention they deserve. Socio-political, social and aesthetic issues interact with purely formal experiments. Radical or actionist performances are combined with surreal stories, commissioned works for trailers or TV with abstract beauties. A lively montage, not a fixed history of masterpieces. The unifying element in all the films and videos is their unmistakable, idiosyncratic visual grammar. When we offer a personal screening of works by a filmmaker, a mediating discussion with the artist will bring their themes and cinematic realisation closer to the audience. Otherwise, the film event is accompanied by a short introduction on the first Monday of every month. 

(Brigitta Burger-Utzer)