Kunstuni Linz – Films

A Physical Narration Artwork that serves as visual research for a short film about a woman who lives in a fictional authoritarian Europe.

Alien Harmonies, an intriguing interactive sculpture, captivates with its enigmatic design. Crafted from black glazed clay, this unique artwork features a collection of brass touchpads.

A short film dystopia that leaves a lot of room for speculation with its experimental design. But one thing should be said: we are in a thought experiment in the distant future, society is experiencing a change and an institution is taking radical measures to reduce the human population.

An experimentation of resting and rediscovering human existence, and conflict in human emotions. In a brutal world where we are driven into dealing with a new skin, what would be the feeling of the first touch?

Within thirty minutes and with twenty to thirty reference images, the AI system Stable Diffusion can learn to imitate the style of any human artist. The more time is given to training, the more exact the results will be.

This experimental movie explores the connection between tree bark and human skin by projecting bark onto three dancers in the studio. As the bark dances with the performers, the similarities become apparent, highlighting how both separate and protect us from the world, at the same time they are our tools to explore our surroundings.

The experimental short film is inspired by the photo film genre. It is about platonic relationships and relationships in general. The photo film questions social patterns and does so by giving insights into the relationships and autobiography of the artist herself.

es mucho tiempo is an interdisciplinary project between dance and videography, a collaboration between the artists Juliana Vargas Rodriguez and Friederike Weber. In the project es mucho tiempo, the artists deal with the perception of time.

ESOPTRON, Ancient Greek for mirror, is an experimental dance film, based on a dance duet of the same title. The project is the artists’ response to the changes that accompanied the global pandemic and explores the themes of touch, seclusion, longing for togetherness and the necessity of physical contact.

Scent Of Their Flowers deals with the desire for deep intimacy. The attempt to trust one’s inner light and strengthen it. Even in seemingly dark times. This music video was made for the debut single of the band Gizem.

Am I allowed to be angry as a woman? Why am I so angry? What should I do with this feeling? These are questions that many women are probably familiar with. However, in our system, women are often not given space to be angry.

The movie is about giving queer people the opportunity to use their voices in order to inspire others to find theirs.

KIra is a twelve-second short film concerning our insecurities and fears when it comes to dating, love and truly opening up to someone. The very short, short film aims to comment on what can potentially happen when we try to outsource dealing with our love related problems and let them be solved by bots rather…

Text messages are the connection between long distances, written words become carriers of emotional states that are otherwise often conveyed via gestures, facial expressions and body language in general.

In a lucid dream the dreamer becomes aware of their own actions in the dream. While dreaming the dreamer can get some control to navigate the direction of the pathway, the approach to a character or the whole environment.

Female pleasure, masturbation, orgasms. Topics that are often avoided. Who is to blame?

Revisiting places and memories of Fatma Selek, the grandmother of the filmmaker, who came to Wels, Austria, in 1973 as a guest worker. Her interview from 2012 gives insight into her experiences and struggles, such as being separated from her children for years, language barriers and the feeling of being torn between two countries.

Together with Katarína Krupičková, a concept combining contemporary dance and images from a Zeiss Primovert microscope was developed. Together, we transformed and implemented the emotions and impressions created by the confrontation with these microcosms.

Neinblicke is an interactive sculpture that is possessed by an evil and chaotic algorithm. Its only goal is to protect the secret lying within. As soon as one tries to find out what is hiding inside and steps in front of it, the wooden cube closes down.

nexus is an approximately 124 x 124 x 124-cm cube surrounded by tubes. These tubes are all connected to each other. There are three tubes on each side of the cube that protrude from and into the cube.

Outside In is an interactive artwork that consists of three digital drawings showing abandoned places. Through objects shown in the drawings, the visitor can explore sound files that tell the story of what happened in these places before they were abandoned.

Divided—different opinions—separated—parties—dispute—war—conflict—different perspectives … are some of the most important keywords in connection with the video installation pars.

Posthuman is a photo series established at an abandoned location revealing faces and their posthuman identities. The project is based on a collaboration between the Institute of Dance Arts (IDA) of the Anton Bruckner Private University and the Department of Time-based and Interactive Media Arts from the University of Arts Linz at the POSTCITY Linz.

RAS Awakening is an audiovisual sculpture that repeatedly comes alive, reminiscent of a futuristic being arising from slumber. Generative sounds orchestrate the sculpture’s awakening, infusing the space with an immersive audio narrative and a synchronized dance of light, rotation and glitch.

Using a scanning electron microscope, I analyzed hair, fibers of a sweater, a coin, dust from the laboratory and a torn piece of a passport to elicit a deeper layer of meaning from these objects than is ascribed to them in everyday life by visualizing the invisible, illuminated by light elements.

StarryPainter is an interactive artwork that allows visitors to draw a digital starry sky. Visitors can switch between different scenes that, when viewed in detail, hide clues about the impact of human actions on the starry sky.

Eleven analog photographs, depicting scenes from everyday life in an unusual living situation, accompanied by audio recordings of a fragmented narrative about being the daughter of a father with dementia.

This is the End of us is a short experimental film about a young witch constantly on the verge of a breakup. She appears to be stuck in an endless loop between ending and salvaging her relationship with an unseen entity, as she questions her existence in her isolated room.

translucent reverie is an artwork that combines various mediums to create a captivating visual experience. It seamlessly merges the physical and digital realms, blurring the boundaries between traditional art forms and contemporary technology.