Partners
-
Centrul Național al Cinematografiei
-
Goethe-Institut
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- You are here: Home > THE SEISMIC FORM
You are here
Online -
Friday, November 27, 2020 - 21:00
Written by:
Antoinette Zwirchmayr, Jean Baudrillard (original text)
Cast:
Johannes Gerhart, Eryca Green
Cinematography:
Antoinette Zwirchmayr
Editing:
Antoinette Zwirchmayr
Sound:
Matthias Peyker
Music:
Matthias Peyker
Producer:
Antoinette Zwirchmayr
ZWIRCHMAYR does not fight theory with theory. Starting from a text written by Jean Baudrillard, the director makes small case studies, surreal or performative vignettes that revolve around seismic movements and ruins, the topics covered in the essay. A man poses nude by the sea. Earlier, he was completely covered with gravel. Two empty bodies haunt a historic building. Frozen time, suspended time, an alternative reality, resurrections - the director's response to all this is, of course, the act of filming, which also concludes her film. (Călin Boto, BIEFF 2020)
Director:
ANTOINETTE ZWIRCHMAYR was born in 1989 in Salzburg, Austria and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Her work consists of concise juxtapositions that reveal sensitive relationships between human beings, objects and nature. Her lyrical visual compositions show vulnerable surfaces separating the inner from the outer, where she examines stereotypical ideas of physique and identity. The reduced formal aesthetic that she employs is marked by a critical ambivalence and directs the viewer’s attention to details that are correlated in the transient and physical quality of analog film. She has exhibited work at Berlinale, Toronto International Film Festival and Austrian Film Museum, among others.
Contact:
LIGHT CONE
Festivals, awards:
Oberhausen 2020 / CPH:DOX 2020 / IndieLisboa 2020
“ANTOINETTE ZWIRCHMAYR creates enigmatic and evocative films which leave out as much as they show. In her poetry and practice, the tactile and analogue film image is almost spiritually linked to the physical materiality of the world. Her latest work looks at geological and seismic conditions as a metaphor for a physical scale that transcends that of human beings. 'The Seismic Form' is based on a text by Jean Baudrillard, edited down to a few sentences in line with ZWIRCHMAYR's elliptical and suggestive aesthetics, and read out in three different languages with selective subtitles. The French theoretician combines the interest in the phenomena of nature with a cultural narrative and a critique of civilisation. A historical timeline of fractures and new beginnings, which starts in Pompeii and continues at a museum. No matter how conceptually tight it may seem, Zwirchmayer's vision is free of dogma and structures other than those she imposes on herself. Her latest work is probably her most beautiful to date.” (CPH:DOX 2020)