Norbert Pfaffenbichler - Films, installations, objects, set pieces & conversation

No admission!

36 (together with Lotte Schreiber), 2001, 2 min
Notes on film 01 else, 2002, 6 min
CONFERENCE notes on film 05, 2011, 8 min
Intermezzo (Notes on Film 04), 2012, 4 min
Odessa Crash Test (Notes on Film 09), 2014, 6 min
Notes on Noise 01 Hoffman´s Hymn, 2019, 3 min
2551.01 (Trailer), 2021, 1 min
2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned (Trailer), 2023, 1 min
2551.03 – The End (Trailer), 2025, 1 min

Moderation: Dietmar Schwärzler 

The three-part saga 2551, which has just been completed, is Norbert Pfaffenbichler's latest prank. Since the late 1990s, Pfaffenbichler has been working with great verve on the shaping of Austrian artist film, both artistically, in teaching and as a curator. The trilogy, with its wide range of references to fantastic film and numerous controversial cinematic set pieces, provides the basis for the exhibition, which only takes place on one evening. In combination with a short film program and the installation Pandora's Party Preview (a cooperation with Paul Lechmann), it presents a universe of the deviant: - including the stop motion figures set in motion in the films, obscure masks (some of which were specially cast, but later removed from the film version) or objects, such as a crucified monkey reminiscent of Martin Kippenberger's legendary sculpture “First the Feet”.

Pfaffenbichler, who studied media art with Peter Weibel at the Angewandte, began primarily with abstract concept films inspired by modernism; the set, usually specially composed sound was and is always a defining element. Christian Fennesz, Bernhard Lang, Wolfgang Frisch from the Sofa Surfers, Stefan Németh, Julia Witas & Joannes Wu are the respective sound accomplices who make Pfaffenbichler's cinematic references from film history and popular culture, including Adolf Hitler, Charlie Chaplin or Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin, vibrate and place them in ludicrous constellations. In Pfaffenbichler's unique work, conceptual approach, cinematic precision, deviant humor and a play with excess do not form a contradiction, but rather intertwine and relate to each other in a constructive, almost organic way. You will be surprised - join the conversation. (Dietmar Schwärzler)

Talking Screen aims to explore the question of the diverse forms of presentation of films in the exhibition context, but also the cross-media interferences with other artistic practices. The presentation formats conceived together with the guests are deliberately kept open and are intended to include multifaceted varieties of (performative) self-presentation as well as to enable a critical discourse on cinematic formats and forms. A combination of films, discussion and micro-exhibition is intended as the setting for each evening.

sixpackfilm in cooperation with Künstlerhaus Wien