* 1967 in Steyr.

Norbert Pfaffenbichler studied at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna, media master class, from 1994 to 2001. He works as artist and curator and participated in numerous festivals and exhibitions. He is a founding member of VIDOK and lanolin.

Offizielle Homepage: http://www.pfaffenbichlerschreiber.org/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1114961/

Austria 2007, 10 min, language: without dialogue
The audience is not only confronted with an unmediated visuality, it is torn back and forth between an analytic way of seeing rhythmic patterns or refracting motifs, and the impulse to (re)construct a plot. Picture and sound - Bernhard Lang composed an analog soundtrack in conjunction with the film loops – demand undivided attention. The mosaic presented is a kaleidoscope or a crystal that short-circuits temporal and spatial dimensions as well as different media and their historicity. (Claudia Slanar)

Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Tribute to Norbert Pfaffenbichler / Lotte Schreiber

Other presentations (selection):
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2008
Toronto International Film Festival 2008
Melbourne International Film Festival 2008
Hamburg International Short Film Festival 2008
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2008
Tampere Short Film Festival 2008
Wiesbaden exground on screen 2008
Diagonale 2008
Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz 2008

Awards:
Special mention, Leeds International Film Festival 2008 

Austria 2006, 5 min, language: without dialogue
The work is based on the idea of making a video with a minimum number of parameters. A uniform white grid on a blue background structures the picture. This grid moves orthogonally to the left, right, upward and downward at four different speeds. All of the audiovisual composition’s parameters are based on the ratio of the screen’s dimensions in digital video, 720 x 576. These figures or multiples or fractions of them define the speed and length of the animation. Bernhard Lang’s soundtrack follows the same logic: The frequencies of a synthetically generated square sound were modulated on the basis of the given numerical values. - Together with Lotte Schreiber. 

Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, Responsive Eye   
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Tribute to Norbert Pfaffenbichler / Lotte Schreiber

Other presentations:
Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz 2007

Austria 2004, 18 min, language: without dialogue
The Ars Electronica invited several media artists to visualize minimalistic music from the 1960s for the DVD compilation images 4 music. The video is a precise translation of Steve Reich's Piano Phase into series of images. The number of film loops used corresponds to the number of notes in the composition, and the black-and-white film sequences are pervaded with monochrome fields of primary colors. The picture is divided into two identically sized sections. Analogously to the playing of the two pianos, the two halves of the on-screen imagery are played at slightly different speeds, thus with dynamic asynchrony. This dialectic study thematizes phenomena such as "chaos and order" and "difference and repetition". (Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Lotte Schreiber) - Together with Lotte Schreiber.

Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Tribute to Norbert Pfaffenbichler / Lotte Schreiber

Austria 2001, 2 min, language: without dialogue
36 refers to both aesthetic traditions of abstract painting and the structural approaches of early geometric films (such as those of Walther Ruttmann and Hans Richter). At the same time, other associations arise, such as early video games and their restricted movement, which was limited to the main axes. When watching 36, an unbelievable tension and concentration develops for the viewer, caused not least by the clarity of the concept and the reduction of the means. (Gerald Weber) - Together with Lotte Schreiber.

Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Tribute to Norbert Pfaffenbichler / Lotte Schreiber

Other presentations (selection):
Tampere Short Film Festival 2004
Buenos Aires Festival Int. de Cine Independiente 2004
Videofestival Bochum 2003
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2002
Videoex Zurich 2002
VIPER Festival Lucerne 2001
Helsinki Avanto Media Art Festival 2001
Diagonale 2001
backup Festival Weimar 2001