The films that make up this program are a love song to transgressive, compulsive, in love, hyperbolic and rebellious bodies, bodies that emanate a certain urgency.

In these five short films (plus a bonus track) they resist, break down, find ecstasy, love, undergo surgery or adorn themselves: they carry knowledge, magic, pain with them.

Noski Deville portrays a queer relationship entangled in epileptic visions. From almost dreamlike flowery fields to games of flowers and (trans) bodies of range in the garden of Ashley Hans Scheirl and Ursula Pürrer. Barbara Hammer re-photographs moving X-rays from the 1950s that made the inside of bodies visible while unknowingly exposing them to harmful radiation. Mara Mattuschka invents a cleaning product for a healthier and cleaner body (femme). Friedl vom Gröller shamelessly brings her camera to the dentist’s appointment. Finally, our own skeletons could dance on our graves.

(Text by: Daniela Zahlner)

Daniela Zahlner (curator)

Born in the 80s and based in Vienna, Zahlner studied at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Glasgow School of Arts, Universität Wien and the Schule Friedl Kubelka. She has shown her film work at festivals around the world such as IndieLisboa, Kinoskop Belgrade, London Short Film Festival, Black Canvas Contemporary Film Festival, Analogica, among others, as well as at venues such as the Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Deutschen Filmmuseum, Los Angeles Filmforum, etc Likewise, she has participated in exhibitions in museums and galleries such as the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Turf Projects London, or Bushwick Open Studios NY.