Friedl vom Gröller Movies

The lovesick Jelena spends her afternoons strolling among the tombs and leafless trees at Père-Lachaise cemetery. As she sings...

The setting of the film was simple and straightforward: the now 77-year-old Friedl vom Gröller asks a (homosexual) escort to do a nude film...

May 2012 is composed of three visual elements. In the momentary opening shot the camera spies on riverside joggers from the Donaumarina U-Bahn...

A wink to the reaper that awaits us all, smile on the lips.

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...

Friedl vom Gröller doesn’t give Christiana Perschon an interview. She gives her more: the film of a brief encounter, which in its...

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

An ongoing portrait of Max Turnheim that begun in 2002 when he was 20 years old.

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...

Filmmakers love shooting through windows, the various lockdowns were proof of that. Friedl vom Gröller, however, decided with typical...

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

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...

A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the...

Friedl vom Gröller´s Rust starts by gazing into the strained face of the saint. The artist herself reads "Holzschnitt", or woodcut, rather...

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,...

A young woman's body becomes the medium for the viewer’s projections of the stories and biographies that are imagined about her.

A cheerful ritual in praise of Mami Wata, a mermaid-like water spirit of life, sex and healing. A joyful show of Friedl vom Gröller's particular...

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

Portraits and fragmented views of Paris intertwine.