Don’t Touch Me When I Start to Feel Safe, Brigitta Bödenauer, AT 2003
Focus Austria
(Gl)itchy Skins
Animation that blurs the boundaries between body and image to reinterpret the permeability between the self and the world, inside and outside. Skin becomes a membrane, a projection surface, a screen that stretches and expands into a landscape. Flat expanses and wrinkled canyons are transformed until the organic becomes surreal. Fragile, porous and irritated. Skins tear, morph, slip and overlap. Multiple facets and epidermal film surfaces emerge from complex tissues that defy the boundaries between tactile perception and disembodiment.
Appointments & Tickets
Wed 4.9. • 22:45
Cinema Trafo
Fri 6.9. • 20:45
Cinema Sterk
Sun 8.9. • 10:00
Cinema Trafo
18+
60'
Artist present
In collaboration
Tricky Women/Tricky Realities
Curated by
Djamila Grandits & Lara Bellon
In cooperation with
Supported by
Österreichisches Kulturforum Bern & SWISSLOS Kanton Aargau
Unter dem Ehrenschutz der Österreichischen Botschafterin in der Schweiz, Maria Rotheiser-Scotti
Films
SELF, Claudia Larcher, AT 2015, SELF, Claudia Larcher, AT 2015
SELF
Skin as surface, as material, as landscape. Slow movements through changing terrain, wrinkled ravines and flat expanses. New and mysterious structures keep appearing until the image itself becomes porous and the focus disappears. Direction Claudia Larcher Duration 8' Country Austria Year 2015
Die Geburt der Venus, Moucle Blackout, AT 1970, Die Geburt der Venus, Moucle Blackout, AT 1970
Die Geburt der Venus
Like folded ink blot images, pictures are reflected over their axis and form a kaleidoscope of ecstatic bodies and lustful frolics. New scope for interpretation appears upside down, reversed, mirror inverted and negatively inverted: “Open up your eyes now, tell me what you see.” Direction Moucle Blackout Duration 5' Country Austria Year 1970
Galaxy, Dagmar Schürer, AT 2020, Galaxy, Dagmar Schürer, AT 2020
Galaxy
A fleeting encounter between Touch and Long Swipe becomes an algorithmic love story. Distortions appear: a breakdown of the image, an aberration in the story. While hands and objects move in continuous circles, surprisingly sensory tales emerge outside the orbit. Direction Dagmar Schürer Duration 4' Country Austria Year 2020
Sympoetic Bodies, Flavia Mazzanti, AT 2020, Sympoetic Bodies, Flavia Mazzanti, AT 2020
Sympoetic Bodies
Hybrid organisms break away from the idea of a physical entity. Rigid boundaries become permeable, membranes expand, mutate, are crossed, penetrated. A complex network in constant flux proves that bodies, as Donna Haraway says, don’t end at the skin. Direction Flavia Mazzanti Duration 11' Country Austria Year 2020
slugs'n'tongues, Margareta Klose & Peter Várnai, AT 2022, slugs'n'tongues, Margareta Klose & Peter Várnai, AT 2022
Slugs'n'Tongues
A tangle of whispering, murmuring voices becomes a polyphonic love poem. Tongues flick, smack and roll in moist, soft, crude sounds. A being, sometimes tongue, sometimes slug, against a hairy background.
Direction Margareta Klose, Peter Várnai Duration 4' Country Austria Year 2022
Animation
Peter Várnai
Music
Margareta Klose and Peter Várnai
Sound design
Margareta Klose and Peter Várnai
La Belle est la Bête, Bady Minck, AT 2005, La Belle est la Bête, Bady Minck, AT 2005
La belle est la bête
A furry tongue. Who is the beautiful beast? Fantastical speculations about the internal and external. Surreal arrays and fluffy surfaces conjure up physical sensations. Cosy dream worlds and eerie objects evade inspection and promote liberation.
Direction Bady Minck Duration 3' Country Austria Year 2005
NabelFabel, Mara Mattuschka, AT 1984, NabelFabel, Mara Mattuschka, AT 1984
NabelFabel
Layers of newspaper, mouths and nylon peel away in sync with a heartbeat. A face sheds its skin rebelliously. Distorted grimaces twist and turn through holes – openings to the outside. At the end it feels like there has been an act of liberation. It’s much more than fabric that’s being torn open here. Direction Mara Mattuschka Duration 3' Country Austria Year 1984
Don’t Touch Me When I Start to Feel Safe, Brigitta Bödenauer, AT 2003
Don’t Touch Me When I Start to Feel Safe
Architectural forms morph, expand and fall into each other. The beat becomes more complex, outlines turn into human silhouettes that blur into one another and dissipate. If perception itself is thrown into question, there is no basic structure, no skeleton to rely on. Direction Brigitta Bödenauer Duration 5' Country Austria Year 2003
Embodied Structures - Come Feel My Skins, Cristian Anutoiu, AT 2021, Embodied Structures - Come Feel My Skins, Cristian Anutoiu, AT 2021
Embodied Structures - Come Feel My Skins
Movements through dark silvery waters, from darkness into a glossy space. Islands of fleshy sculptural figures and sleek surfaces that fold into skins. Beyond the binary between the organic and artificial, the digital and physical, speculative bodies grant access to magical realities. (Comissioned by CIVA / sound:frame)
Direction Cristian Anutoiu Duration 5' Country Austria Year 2021
Lezzieflick, Nana Swiczinsky, AT 2008, Lezzieflick, Nana Swiczinsky, AT 2008
Lezzieflick
Bodies and two-dimensional images fold into one another, achieving unexpected depth in the zooming in, in the pixelation. A sensual choreography of desires emerges from the manipulation. A blown tyre, shortness of breath and deep sighing. A reappropriation of lesbian pornography. A photo love story, poster sex. Direction Nana Swiczinsky Duration 7' Country Austria Year 2008
Selfportrait, Maria Lassnig, AT 1971, Selfportrait, Maria Lassnig, AT 1971