Friedl vom Gröller Movies

A publication offering a selective retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Friedl Kubelka – known as a filmmaker under the name...

Wedding is a meta-amateur film, a reflection and a condensation of its form: black and white, silent, 16mm, and only two minutes long. A married...

“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...

What goes missing in a time when mouths are covered by masks? At the beginning you see a set of replacement teeth. This still life opens the film,...

This was supposed to be a trial film for the artist to test her defective camera. In Allegory, Friedl vom Gröller stands in the foreground of...

A film like a punch in the stomach. Blind photographer Evgen Bavčar examines the bodies of four women. The women's expressions and gestures...

The theme of this short film is the relationship between psychoanalyst and client. Vom Gröll plays the analyst, a role she knows from real life....

A tiny picaresque set in Paris chronicling Kubelka’s coy encounter with an unnamed man.

Four young women present themselves seductively, self confidently and with some signs of shame. The camera´s low angle creates – in spite...

Friedl vom Gröller invites a stranger to his small apartment in Paris and records his reactions to an unexpected striptease.

Oppressive and childlike, erotic symbols and surreal moments.

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...

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...

Five older women, loosely grouped in two rows, gaze into the camera. At times only details of their faces can be seen, a sixth woman walks through...

Playing a part or stepping outside it. Lisa, who looks like Friedl vom Gröller´s sister, practises looking into the camera. She adjusts...

In this work the situation of shooting film as experienced by the subject and filmmaker is most clearly visible in the loving and then hurt facial...

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...