Friedl vom Gröller Movies

Although this film does not follow the genre of the city portrait in any way whatsoever, it nonetheless presents a documentation of the...

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...

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...

The film virtually opens with a false lead, showing a poster for for Shiseido cosmetics – the kind of sign we are accustomed to seeing in...

Winter in Paris begins with a still-life of a window sill and beautifully detours to a gruesome-erotic allegory of death.

The title appears in thick boldface print. A short sequence of documentary snapshots, filmed off found paintings. These images pick up on figures...

Oppressive and childlike, erotic symbols and surreal moments.

The natural law of capitalism as expressed by a hungry boa constrictor.

The continuation of a portrait of Gaelle Obiegly. The focus of the film is not a portrait, but rather a wide variety of cable cords in a cellar,...

Portrait of the artist’s mother as an old woman. A farewell vignette, a final sketch from her nursing home, silent, aloof, clumsy, metallic...

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 pan on a dilapidated square, doubled with an another pan showing a series of portraits of local men staring into the camera lens.

Friedl vom Gröller's Poetry for Sale is a portrait of a young man peddling verse on the Paris metro. Reinforcing the antiquated nature of his...

The filming of my discomfort at being a woman between the ages of 60-70 in our society has the function of a valve. It is based on the...

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

A group of people in a room eating pizza, drinking, conversing, perhaps having a party.

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

A salon piece in black and white. The filmmaker circles the amorous play. Gestures and blurs, intuitively precise in-camera edits condense the...