* 1971 in Mürzzuschlag.

Lotte Schreiber studied architecture at the TU Graz, at the University of Edinburgh and in Naples. Since 2000, she has engaged in several projects in the field of film, video and installations. Lotte Schreiber is currently assistant at the Institut für Raum und Design at the University of Arts in Linz. Numerous exhibitions and publications.

Official website: http://www.pfaffenbichlerschreiber.org/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1115189/

Austria/Italy 2007, 15 min, language: Italien, subtitles: German
Schreiber consistently transfers Don Bosco, which was designed by the city’s urban planning department, into rigidly framed images and sequences of serial montage.
In the interplay of these mainly static shots and relaxed pans across facades and structural details, combined with quotes from Pasolini and Fellini to Antonioni, Borgate produces a visual and acoustic showcase of failed urban utopias. All this is underlined by Bernhard Lang’s symphonic composition, which gives the “petrification” of the images a wholly dramatic component. (Gerald Weber)

Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2008, International Competition 4

Other presentations:
Diagonale 2008
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2008
Jihlava Documentary Festival 2008
Vila do Conde - Festival Internacional de Curtas-Metragens 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 Norbert Pfaffenbichler.

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, 8 min, language: without dialogue
Stromboli appears briefly, as though lifted by a flash from out of the darkness into which it once again disappears. We then approach the Aeolian Islands. In their cinematic representation, movement and motionlessness collide as do the materiality of Super 8 and video. In the space, which arises as the camera surveys the scene, the landscape is studied as a sensual experience, but also as an aesthetic object of representation. (Barbara Pichler)

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

Other presentations (selection):
Isfahan International Short Film Festival 2005
Sonar International Festival of Advanced Music Barcelona 2005
Diagonale 2004
Helsinki Avanto Media Art Festival 2004
Viennale 2004 

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 Norbert Pfaffenbichler.

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

Austria 2002, 10 min, language: without dialogue
The video quadro (Italian for square, picture, frame) is a film portrait of a monumental 1960s apartment block built in the Italian coastal city of Trieste. Resembling a fortress, this imposing structure, laid out in the shape of a square, floats on top of a hill overlooking the city. This video is not an architectural documentary in a conventional sense. Its sole foundation is solely the filmmaker’s subjective fascination with the constructed manifestation of a radical design idea and a failed social utopia. (Norbert Pfaffenbichler)

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

Other presentations (selection):
Filmwinter Stuttgart 2004
Diagonale 2003
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2003
Dokumentarfilm- & Videofest Kassel 2003
Visions du réel Nyon 2003
Viennale 2002 

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 Norbert Pfaffenbichler.

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