With her characteristic consistency Gertrude Moser-Wagner has viewed her work as a sculptress in the conceptual tradition ­ even at a time when other approaches were more in the limelight. She uses very precise artistic stategies, such as the transferral

A DVD release celebrating the extraordinary young video and electronic music scene in Austria. These are radical avant-garde works that emerge logically from modern electronic music. The images sometimes tie in with the earliest pure abstract avant-garde

In Oliver Ressler´s works art becomes a political position. (Ursula Maria Probst)

The moods of his films resemble an atmosphere between the dream and trauma. Brehm treats the dream as a source of strategies for association, similar to the secondary process to which according to Freud all the workings of the unconscious are subject. Die

The subversive, ironic analysis of systems of social control; pseudo-scientific technical experiments, for example with objects of daily use; and the »manipulation« of our visual habits with the help of technical apparatus ­ these are central aspects of

The cinema of Hollywood is a cinema of exclusion, reduction and denial, a cinema of repression. There is always something behind that which is being represented, which was not represented. And it is exactly that that is most interesting to consider. (Mar

Of course Peters the filmmaker blurs the individual of the same name with his dense textual and visual system of symbols to create something else: Jan Peters the fictional character. (Claus Löser)

What does it mean to recognize a documentary gesture in Kren´s films? What is being documented? The documentary images that Kren uses in his works do not arise out of a plan, but instead, come from the right moment, a coincidence, a momentary observation

Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with colou

Józef Robakowski is one of the most famous Polish artists and filmmakers associated with the neo-avant-garde movement of the 1960s and 1970s. His works are characterized by a marked tendency to transgress various genres and media. (Patricia Grzonka)