Mara Mattuschka
* 1959 in Sofia.
Mara Mattuschka lives in Vienna since 1976. From 1977 to 1983, she studied ethnology and linguistics at the University of Vienna, subsequently painting and animation film at the Univerity for Applied Arts in Vienna. She works as film director, painter, singer and performance artist.
Mara Mattuschka was member of the jury of the international competition at VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2008.
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0560510/
FILMS directed by MARA MATTUSCHKA
Burning Palace
Austria 2009, 32 min, language: English
The body as an eternally burning palace: Mara Mattuschkas fourth collaboration with choreographer Chris Haring is sometimes evocative of David Lynch, while mostly remaining a blurred play of deceit. A dance performance in a hotel as a cinematic spectacle.
Präsentiert von VIS im Rahmen von:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Panorama 1
Running Sushi
Austria 2008, 28 min, language: German, English
A film made up of a dialog between two people. Steffi and Johnny are in a running sushi restaurant. The first conversation soon explodes into a performative parallel world of unspoken thoughts and emotions. Every coming sushi evokes a story from the unconscious repertoire of the chaos of human relationships. Wish-machines are cranked up, creating grotesque parallel worlds and extreme situations.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2008, Tribute to Chantal Akerman
Other presentations (selection):
Rio de Janeiro Femina Women Film Festival 2008
Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid 2008
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2008
Awards:
Award for Innovative Cinema, Diagonale Graz 2008
Part Time Heroes
Austria 2007, 33 min, language: English
The search for fame’s elevator goes up and down, the ego’s bust and boom. Each character is isolated in his or her anachronistic, film-star dressing room, left alone, subjected to the sinister fittings: a hopelessly out-dated microphone, radio, crutches for communication. - Together with Chris Haring.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, Tribute to Miranda July
Other presentations (selection):
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2007
Videofestival Bochum 2007
Diagonale Graz 2007
London Film Festival 2007
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 2007
Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz 2008
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008
Awards:
Bester Kurzfilm im internationalen Wettbewerb, Filmwinter Stuttgart 2008
Königin der Nacht
Austria 2006, 1 min, language: without dialogue
Without any kind of warning or introduction, the Queen of the Night’s aria explodes as rock music of its time. The famous coloratura parts are as ecstatic as a sung orgasm. The Queen of the Night sings women’s names: She is all women, she addresses them all by name. A call and an appeal. Like a hurricane, a night owl, a sexual diva, she flies toward the camera before a starry night sky with a full moon.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, The Mozart-Minute
Comeback
Austria 2005, 15 min, language: German
An opera diva (Mimi Minus) makes her grand solo appearance.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations:
Diagonale Graz 2006
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2006
San Diego Women's Festival 2006
Legal Errorist
Austria 2005, 15 min, language: English
A performance of transformation, a transformance, changes its medium and encounters a camera, which plays dance music - under the secret eye of a room that bends and twists along with it. - Together with Chris Haring.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Brief Encounters Bristol 2005
Viennale 2005
VIDEOEX Zürich 2005
Diagonale Graz 2005
Videofestival Bochum 2006
Internationales Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg 2005
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2005
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2005
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2006
ID
Austria 2003, 10 min, language: German
Mimi Minus on the escalator of horror. Mara Mattuschka’s alter ego once again sets off on a tour de force of physical renunciation.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Diagonale 2003
Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart 2004
Stuttgart Filmwinter 2005
Unternehmen Arschmaschine
Austria 1997, 17 min, language: German
Two obsessive and (deriving from the principle of symmetry) very similar women scientists investigate the various stages of evolutionary development. And this all without screwing. - Together with Gabriele Szekatsch.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Diagonale Graz 1998
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 1998
Ars Electronica Linz 2000
SOS Extraterrestria
Austria / Germany 1993, 10 min, language: without dialogue
The world as a plaything for a giantess from outer space.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Ankara International Film Festival 1995
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 1995
Stuttgart Filmwinter 1995
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2000
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2002
Diagonale Graz 2005
Danke, es hat mich sehr gefreut
Austria 1987, 2 min, language: German
And our old Emperor said: "Thank you, it´s been very nice, it was a pleasure!"
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart 1996
Locarno International Film Festival 1997
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 1999
Buenos Aires Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente 2004
Les Miserables
Austria 1987, 2 min, language: German
In this film, Mattuschka works exclusively with animation.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart 1996
Diagonale Graz 2001
feminale Köln 2004
Kugelkopf
Austria 1985, 6 min, language: without dialogue
Hands vigorously pull scraps of paper from an antiquated printing press, while their owner remains invisible. Then Mimi Minus and a razor blade - the incident is still shocking.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Locarno International Film Festival 1997
Diagonale Graz 1997
Rotterdam International Film Festival 1998
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 1999
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2000
Festival du Film Court de Brest 2001
Sao Paolo Short Film Festival 2001
Cork International Film Festival 2002
Parasympathica
Austria 1985, 5 min
Using animated imagery, Mattuschka let the juices which are stimulated by the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system, flow over the body.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Viper Luzern 1996
Locarno International Film Festival 1997
Hiroshima International Animation Festival 1998
Diagonale Graz 1998
Der Untergang der Titania
Austria 1985, 4 min, language: German
Nobody understands love better than a woman, who enjoys it for the last time.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
Other presentations (selection):
Filmfest Braunschweig 2000
Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche 2002
Cerolax
Austria 1983, 1 min
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, Tribute to Mara Mattuschka
OTHER FILMS:
10 kurze Rollen auf Umkehrmaterial (1983)
Begegnungen der 4. Art (1985)
Beitrag für Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken - Teil 1 von Ernst Schmidt jr. (1987)
Beitrag für Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken - Teil 2 von Schmidt jr. (1988)
Beitrag für Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken - Teil 3 nach Schmidt jr. (1993)
Cerolax II (1985)
Das 1x1 des glücklichen Lebens (1987)
Der Einzug des Rokoko ins Inselreich der Huzzis (1989)
Der Schöne, die Biest (1993)
Die Schule der Ausschweifung (1986)
Die Unbilden des Schicksals (1996)
Die vollkommene Bedeutungslosigkeit der Frau für die Musikgeschichte (1987)
Furchtbar-schrecklich (1986)
Gebet (1983)
Grüße aus Wien (1985)
Kaiser Schnitt (1987)
Kammeropern (1983)
Leibesgeschichten (1984)
Loading Ludwig (1989)
m2 (1987)
Mein Kampf (1987)
Midas (1986)
Moody Blues (1983)
NabelFabel (1984)
Pascal - Gödel (1986)
Plasma (2004)
Rosa Alexander (1986)
Suvlaki ist Babylon: komm, iss mit mir (1994)
Tagesmenü (1984)