Tricky Women / Tricky Realities 2023
Synopsis
Screening of the TAKE, BREAK, REMAKE programme with 10 animated short films directed by female directors and previously shown at the Tricky Women Festival in Austria, in collaboration with the Embassy of Austria in Luxembourg, and followed by a Q&A with the director Claudia Larcher (Collapsing Mies; Me, Myself and I).
The films in this programme demonstrate the cinematic potential to open up new spaces of possibility and make changes of perspective visible and tangible. Ten films that represent the range of current works by Austrian animation artists and prove that animation, like the world as a whole, remains in constant motion.
Free screening (reservation of free tickets on the link below, subject to availability).
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Films in the programme :
On the bottom of the laundrybag (Adele Razkövi), Lava Garden (Ingrid Gaier), Mindset (Veronika Schubert), The Goose and The Common (Shadab Shayegan), Collapsing Mies (Claudia Larcher), Sympoietic bodies (Flavia Mazzanti), under the microscope (Michaela Grill), Me, Myself and I (Claudia Larcher), Issues with my other Half (Anna Vasof), Sammer – Frau Sammer (Katarina Michelitsch)
Claudia Larcher
Claudia Larcher was born in 1979 in Bregenz, Austria. She lives and works in Vienna, Austria.
She is a visual artist with a focus in (site specific) video animation, collage, photography and installation.
From 2001 to 2008 she studied « Media Art and Sculpture » at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Since 2005 she has participated in various group exhibitions and festivals in Austria and abroad and presented her work in solo and group exhibitions: f.e. Tokyo Wonder Site Japan, Slought Foundation Philadelphia, Weimar Art Festival, Centre Pompidou Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art/ Roskilde, steirischer Herbst in Graz and Anthology Film Archives in NYC.
In 2014 she taught as a Visiting Professor at the Institute of Architecture and Design at the Vienna University of Technology with a focus on experimental tendencies in architectural film. She was granted by the Game Award and the Vienna Kunsthalle award in 2008.
She won the Art Award Vorarlberg in 2018, as well as Outstanding Artist Award of the Federal Chancellery for Art and Culture in 2016.
In March 2019, a monograph with Claudia Larcher‘s work has been published by deGruyter Verlag.