Friedl vom Gröller
a.k.a. Friedl Kubelka.
* 1946 in London.
Friedl vom Gröller spent her childhood in Vienna and Berlin. From 1965 to 1969, she studied photography at the Grafische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna. Her first films were made in 1968. In 2005, she received the Austrian Photography State Award. Friedl vom Gröller founded the School for Artistic Photography in Vienna in 1990 and the School for Independent Film in Vienna in 2006.
FILMS directed by FRIEDL VOM GRÖLLER
Polterabend (Hen-Night)
Austria 2009, 3 min, language: without dialogue
The setting is simple: a group picture with six elderly women arranged in two rows, everyone looks into the camera. One of them sniffs at a vial. The occasion for the film’s production was Kubelka’s upcoming wedding. Night before the Wedding shows friends’ reactions, which are expressed pointedly in their faces. Faces, as is well known, are able to tell stories. (Dietmar Schwärzler)
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Faces
Other presentations:
Diagonale 2009
Eltern (Mutter / Vater) (Parents (Mother / Father))
Austria 1997, 6 min, language: without dialogue
In this work the situation of shooting film as experienced by the subject and filmmaker is most clearly visible in the loving and then hurt facial expression of the mother, who in the end disregards the filmmaker’s instruction and disappears from the picture. The variety in the characters’ reactions is made apparent by the way the father, who does not show his feelings, "sticks it out". While this is happening the viewer is left to deal with this discomfort by him or herself.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Faces
OTHER FILMS:
Passage Briare (2009)
Eingreifen (2001/2005)
Spucken (2000)
Peter Kubelka und Jonas Mekas (1994)
Ohne Titel (1981/2000)
Heidi (1974)
Graf Zokan (Franz West) (1969)
Erwin, Toni, Ilse (1968/1969)