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with works by Renate Billensteiner, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Alexandra Kahl, Klara Kohler, Markus Moser, Rainer Nöbauer-Kammerer, Marion Reisinger, Klaus Peter Scheuringer

December 9 - 15, 2022

OVNI FESTIVAL - Carte Blanche to LIGHT CONE, Espace d'Arte [EAC], Mouans-Sartoux (France)

BLED part of CHEMIN DES PIXELS #2

As part of OVNi Festival, the EAC (Espace d'Art Concret à Mouans-Sartoux, Alpes Maritimes) hosts a carte blanche to Light Cone where video works from the collection will be exhibited.

November 19 - December 4, 2022

PORTO/POST/DOC film & media festival - framing reality

Camera Test & Ballet Anémic part of the program Poetry in Motion

November 16 - 26, 2022

LIGHT MATTER Film Festival dedicated to experimental film and media art, Holmes Auditorium, Alfred, NY (USA)

Camera Test Part part of the program Tilted Perception

November 4 - 6, 2022

SPURENSUCHE | TRACES, Exhibition at Galerie Hinterland, Vienna (Austria)

with works by Babak Kazemi, Ali Kazim, Clemens Krauss, Siegfried A. Fruhauf

October 26 - December 17, 2022

FESTIFREAK Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de La Plata, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

Camera Test part of the program Selección Cortos Internacionales

October 19 - 30, 2022

UNDER|DOX Internationales Filmfestival für Dokument und Experiment München (Germany)

Ballet anémic & Camera Test part of the program Underdox Kurzfilmrolle

October 6 - 12, 2022

CURTOCIRCUITO Festival Internacional de Cine, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

Camera Test part of the program Sección Oficial Explora

!!! "Camera Test" got an honourable mention from the Young Jury !!!

October 1 - 9, 2022

Akademie des Österreichischen Films / Kunstmesse viennacontemporary

Wie kommt die Kunst zum Film? Wie kommt der Film zur Kunst?

Filmschau und Panel

September 10, 2022

In Kooperation mit der Kunstmesse viennacontemporary (8. bis 11. September 2022 im Wiener Kursalon) veranstaltet die Akademie des Österreichischen Films am 10. September im METRO Kinokulturhaus einen Tag zur Schnittstelle von Kunst und Film. Gezeigt werden Filme, die einen Kontext zur (bildenden) Kunst haben und/oder deren Filmemacher:innen sich als Vertreter:innen beider Welten sehen.

12 bis 20 Uhr: Filmschau

Ort: METRO Kinokulturhaus (Eric-Pleskow-Saal)

20 Uhr: Podiumsdiskussion „Wie kommt die Kunst zum Film? Wie kommt der Film zur Kunst?“

mit Barbara Fränzen (BMKÖS Filmabteilung), Katrina Daschner (Filmemacherin/Künstlerin), Siegfried A. Fruhauf (Filmemacher/Künstler) und Edgar Honetschläger (Filmemacher/Künstler). Moderation: Dietmar Schwärzler (sixpackfilm)

Ort: METRO Kinokulturhaus (Historischer Saal)

21 bis 22 Uhr: Filme der Podiumsgäste

Ort: METRO Kinokulturhaus (Historischer Saal)

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25FPS International Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb

Ballet anémic part of the Competition Program

September 22 - 24, 2022

CINEMATECA PORTUGUESA - Museu do Cinema

Mirror Mechanics part of the program Apropriação, Manipulação

August 30, 2022

MIFF Melbourne International Film Festival

CAMERA TEST Part of the Program Experimental Shorts

August 4 - 21, 2022

CURTAS VILA DO CONDE International Film Festival, Portugal

CAMERA TEST part of the program Experimental Competition

July 9 - 17, 2022

LIGHT CONE CELEBRATES ITS 40TH ANNIVERSARY

BLED part of Scratch Expanded #10, Les Voûtes, Paris (France)

June 17 - 18, 2022

Sprachspiel. Biennale West. Festival für Literatur und Film, Wien

Screening HÖHENRAUSCH

June 10 - 12, 2022

FRACTO Experimental Film Encounter- Kunsthaus ACUD, Berlin

DISSOLUTION PROLOGUE (Extended Version) part of Selection #1, In and Out Window

May 27 - 29, 2022

ONE WORLD ROMANIA International Human Rights & Documentary Festival - Bucharest

FLURSCHADEN (Landscape Damage) part of Special Program sixpackfilm

May 13 - 22, 2022

VIS - Vienna Shorts

Attwenger - REAL part of Selection MUVI Austrian Music Video Award

May 6, 2022

MONOQUINI - Cinéma Utopia, Bordeaux, France

MIRROR MECHANICS part of the program ÉPISODE 3 / MACHINES DE VISION

May 6, 2022

SONIC CINEMA - Cafe OTO London

THORAX part of the program AUSTRIAN SYNAESTHETIC CINEMA FEAT. TWIXT LIVE A/V

May 6, 2022

ITFS - Festival of animated Film Stuttgart

FUDDY DUDDY part of the program Fokus Austria: Shorts 1

May 3 - 8, 2022

SCREEN - Exhibition at MAERZ KünstlerInnenvereinigung Linz

Viktoria Schmid, Katharina Müller, Michael Loebenstein (unter Mitwirkung von Aki Beckmann), Siegfried A. Fruhauf

April 29 - May 17, 2022

CROSSING EUROPE - Filmfestival Linz

CAMERA TEST part of the program Local Artists - Experimental Shorts

April 27 - May 2, 2022

BEST AUSTRIAN ANIMATION FESTIVAL - Vienna

Attwenger - REAL part of Wettbewerbsprogramm 3 MUSIKVIDEOS - "Vielfalt in allen Geschwindigkeiten"

April 25 - 30, 2022

NOMADICA at LABA 2022 - Brescia (Italy)

THORAX part of the program MACHINALIVE

April 21 - 25, 2022

DIAGONALE - Festival des österreichischen Films Graz

CAMERA TEST part of the program Innovatives Kino

April 5 - 10, 2022

KULTURJOURNAL - Ö1 Radiobericht

DIE EXPERIMENTALFILM VON SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF

Anlässlich der Veröffentlichung der DVD/Bluray NATURE AND ABSTRACTIONS im renommierten Label RE:VOIR hat Wolfgang Popp einen kleinen Beitrag für das Ö1 Kulturjournal gestaltet.Der österreichische Experimentalfilmer Siegfried A. Fruhauf kreiert aus einem alten schwarzweißen Landschaftsfoto einen kleinen Weltuntergang, nimmt stillgelegte Bahntrassen wieder in Betrieb oder bringt die Nacht zum Schwitzen. Seine Filme laufen bei den Festivals in Cannes oder Berlin und wurden in Argentinien, den USA, Spanien und in Wien ausgezeichnet. Eine DVD-Edition versammelt die wichtigsten Arbeiten der letzten Jahre und trägt den Titel „Nature and Abstractions“. (oe1.orf.at)

February 4, 2022

STUTTGARTER FILMWINTER - Festival for Expanded Media

DISSOLUTION PROLOGUE (Extended Version) part of the program Internationaler Wettbewerb Kurzfilme 4

January 7 - 16, 2022

RE:VOIR DVD & Blu-ray combo set with 8 short films and 4 bonus films

SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF | NATURE AND ABSTRACTIONS

Siegfried A. Fruhauf sees cinema as a natural process in the broad sense. It is that nature as a subject in his films always serves as a poetic investigation into the laws of the cosmos and the universe. His aesthetic enterprise therefore consists in projecting us beyond perceptual habits, to see the celestial bodies that hide in the lining of a landscape. To do this he uses the camera like a scientific device, that is, as an instrument capable of taking what is invisible to the human eye. The images that will appear next can no longer be deciphered by physics or mathematics. What they show stems from the disaster of burning and dying stars.

In order to carry out this translation where the camera gives us a way to interpret the language of the stars, the filmmaker pushes the limits of the camera as a tool. It is by accentuating the decomposition of the film or the interference of the grain that he realizes sincere odes to disorder. Thus, his images derive their power from the fact that they bring the device to the fore, that they bring the life of the machine to the screen. New filmic manifestations arise from representation "errors", proving that there is a cosmos in every image, however small.

In fact, among cosmic phenomena, it is perhaps "dissolution" which constitutes the central leitmotif of the works of Siegfried A. Fruhauf. In Night Sweat (2008) the dialogue between nature and the nature of the film continues to question the limits of the machine, but sublimates the interferences. The zooming assaults in the night eventually liquefy the image to suck us into a chaotic universe where our minds project black holes on the dance of pixels. By disorganizing the image in this way through a craft of intoxication, the filmmaker breaks with the idea of classical representation. It dissolves matter and plunges us into a plastic mess that only our inner world can rearrange. The real then opens up to new modes of structuring imagination. This creates a political approach by filmmaker, who brings into play the foundations of objectivity as if to better invite us to rethink the world.

“We live with the idea that there is no alternative, that if the world turned out otherwise everything would fall apart. This is not true. There is another order, and it works too. When the Earth was flat, it worked too.“ Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Talk at The Austrian Film Museum, video recording, January 11, 2020.

Drawing on this history of cinema which brings together Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, the work of Siegfried A. Fruhauf constantly sheds new light on the limits of moving image. His free and non-academic approach to the Austrian heritage (Kren, Kubelka, etc.) indicates that it is less for him to "show something else" than to find a "new way of seeing" the familiar. As a result, as evidenced by the archaeological montage of his films, his work indeed finds it’s place in a process of updating our reality. We think here of his way of piling up traces of images, to make the disappeared and the dissimilar coexist at the "infinitely small point of the present". Fruhauf's cinema apprehends time and phenomena through the prism of repetition; and everything is reborn to the rhythm of the hypnotic sound loops of Anna Katharina Laggner and Jürgen Gruber.

- Etienne Bomba, trad. Jim Stickel, Re:voir (2021)

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