Thomas Renoldner
* 1960 in Linz.
Since 1976, the artist Thomas Renoldner works in the fields of film, music, installations and performance. He studied educational theory and psychology in Innsbruck from 1979 to 1983 and animation film and experimental design at the University for Applied Arts in Vienna from 1988 to 1994. He is a board member of ASIFA and ASIFA Austria, and head of the Studio for Artistic Animation Film of the Academy for Fine Arts in Vienna.
From 2006 to 2009, Thomas Renoldner curated the series "Animation Schools of the World" for VIS Vienna Independent Shorts: ENSAD Paris (VIS 2006), Royal College of Art London (VIS 2007), Academy for Fine Arts Cracow (VIS 2008), CalArts (VIS 2009); as well as Sharks and Bees (VIS 2009) about propaganda and subversion in animated film during World War II. Futhermore, he conveyed to VIS Special Guest Paul Bush (VIS 2007) and Special Guest Jerzy Kucia (VIS 2008). For VIS 2010 he curated the international competition programmes of Animation Avantgarde and other film programmes.
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FILMS directed by THOMAS RENOLDNER
Mozart Party ’06
Austria 2006, 1 min
director, screenplay, production: Thomas Renoldner | music: Andi Haller
There is hardly any other artist whose name is exploited around the world so excessively and in so many different ways. The Mozart moniker has been used for airports, ski slopes, hotels and cafés in addition to numerous food products. Mozart Party ’06 is a caricature of this constant exploitation and at the same time an ominous prediction for the jubilee year of 2006.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2006, The Mozart-Minute
Other presentations:
Balkanima Belgrade Animation Film Festival 2006
Rhythmus 94
Austria 1994, 5 min
director, screenplay, editing, music: Thomas Renoldner | cinematography: Manfred Haspel, Thomas Renoldner
This film is a musical piece. The sounds, their pitches, their relationships to one another, and especially the (poly)rhythmic structures are to be read as a score for the organization and the multiple overlaying of images and vice versa. Image and sound become one; they have grown together, have been invented for one another. A perfect, homogenous piece of "Visual Music".
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2010, Animated Music in Austria 1937-2008
Other presentations (selection):
DOK Leipzig 1995
Melbourne International Film Festival 1995
Sydney International Film Festival 1995
Viper Festival Luzern 1995
Filmwinter Stuttgart 1996
Hiroshima International Animation Festival 1996
Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart 1996
Diagonale 2001
OTHER FILMS:
Sophia's Year (1998)
Zeit Raum (1998)
Wos nu (1995)
More Money for the Fight Against Aids (1994)
Käpt'n Knödl im Dreck (1993; together with Georg Dienz, Pepi Öttl and Nana Swiczinsky)
Lonely Cowboy in 1992 (1992)
Bunt (1991)
Würfel (1990)
Haus/Frau (1989)