Direction: Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Synopsis The contemplative serenity Antoinette Zwirchmayr creates in House and Universe is offset by notions of restlessness and unease, that the images of a dormant, naked young woman – alter- natingly shown in a sparse, bright motel room and the blooming...

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Synopsis The full moon on the black night sky, a swinging pendulum, constellations, three women seen from behind, an ensemble of sparking crystals, half-transparent stripes in motion, light plays in black-and-white and in color. Images, perspectives, bodies, spaces, worlds set in...

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Synopsis A place essentially bound up with dismal memories and the smell of old leather and sweat becomes a stage for enraptured performances. The setting and habitat of At the Edge of the Curtain is a gymnasium. Its occupants: three women...

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Cast Edita Malovcic · Veronika Glatzner · Julia Franz Richter · Salka Weber

Synopsis A woman painter meditates on her art, on art and its history, and more specifically on the possibilities and impossibilities for art to represent the reality of a violent, war-torn world.

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Synopsis The world of ‘The Seismic Form’ is one of tactile, textured surfaces, brilliantly responsive to light. As solid as these planes and contours may seem in a moment, they are not stable – nor, despite our delusions of permanence and...

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr · Manfred Schwaba

Synopsis From the spring of 2018 to the spring of 2019, Austrian filmmakers Manfred Schwaba and Antoinette Zwirchmayr —who up to this point had maintained a faithful, intense “letter friendship” —switched to an unusual, artistic and intense method of communication. Their...

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Synopsis This film acts as a childhood memory, playful and full of discovery, transformation, tenderness and melancholy. It opens with a clear image: we see geometric shapes, accompanied by a pair of hands, probably feminine. The hands fold the paper. A...

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Synopsis Antoinette Zwirchmayr's serenely composed images create a calm, surrealistic atmosphere of transformation. As if time were suspended, her still lifes linger with lucid clarity in a state be- tween dream and consciousness. A male body, seen through the filmmaker's lens,...

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr

Direction Antoinette Zwirchmayr