Friedl vom Gröller Movies

A young man spitting cherry pits, with an off-screen accomplice, attempts to hit the camera´s lens with one of them. Various moods become...

A pan along a gallery of large washing machines in a laundromat. Two women speak sign language and a third feeds coins into the machine. Language is...

Portraits and fragmented views of Paris intertwine.

Past the newsstand, the hairdressers, by the dry cleaners. A door opens into a sick room. A very old woman lies there in her bed. Her body is...

Photo session is a film about a pair. A human pair: man and woman, no longer young but when they laugh together they´re as exuberant as...

In a series of films made in the 1990s Friedl Kubelka introduced a new element: her participation in the film by interacting with the subject. These...

Filmed photo portraits Erwin, Toni, Ilse, is one of Friedl Kubelka’s first films. Influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and Existentialism, it was...

Men, their faces in close-up, gazing face first into the camera one after the other is the opening motif of this barely three-minute film, which only...

A silent, black and white film portrait of two children set against the eponymous Swiss river, Ticino takes its cue from Franz West's famous...

Im Wiener Prater is not about the amusement park that one normally associates with this name. The spectacle in the film takes place in a much more...

A small, cheerful homage to one of Friedl vom Gröller's favorite directors – Carl Theodor Dreyer – or perhaps a game of telephone...

Endure tension, endure intimacy.

The filmmaker Friedl vom Gröller films herself and her colleague, the filmmaker Christiana Perschon. A projector casts images from an earlier...

A bowl on the ground. The fallen leaves around it reference autumn. A letter enters the frame—aged hands tear it up, and its pieces fall into...

“This unwavering attitude as well as his decision to develop his own film style under and with financially difficult circumstances are the...

A short film with music written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.

“La mia Camera” means my room, a balcony with curtains, (and my film camera). The main characters are the wind and its dancing playmate,...

In Maya Deren’s AT LAND, each vision of a foot hitting the ground took us into a new space via the magic of montage. DAS RAD works a similar...

16mm short film