Friedl vom Gröller Movies

Portraits and fragmented views of Paris intertwine.

The setting of the film was simple and straightforward: the now 77-year-old Friedl vom Gröller asks a (homosexual) escort to do a nude film...

A young woman's body becomes the medium for the viewer’s projections of the stories and biographies that are imagined about her.

A salon piece in black and white. The filmmaker circles the amorous play. Gestures and blurs, intuitively precise in-camera edits condense the...

An ongoing portrait of Max Turnheim that begun in 2002 when he was 20 years old.

The title appears in thick boldface print. A short sequence of documentary snapshots, filmed off found paintings. These images pick up on figures...

Redskins Redskins

Past the newsstand, the hairdressers, by the dry cleaners. A door opens into a sick room. A very old woman lies there in her bed. Her body is...

Five older women, loosely grouped in two rows, gaze into the camera. At times only details of their faces can be seen, a sixth woman walks through...

Friedl vom Gröller's Poetry for Sale is a portrait of a young man peddling verse on the Paris metro. Reinforcing the antiquated nature of his...

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...

A pan along a gallery of large washing machines in a laundromat. Two women speak sign language and a third feeds coins into the machine. Language is...

A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the...

The filming of my discomfort at being a woman between the ages of 60-70 in our society has the function of a valve. It is based on the...

In Maya Deren’s AT LAND, each vision of a foot hitting the ground took us into a new space via the magic of montage. DAS RAD works a similar...

A wink to the reaper that awaits us all, smile on the lips.

Paris in June 2009. The title leads us to expect a personal diary entry made in a city that has often been used as a setting for ideas of love. In...

Im Wiener Prater is not about the amusement park that one normally associates with this name. The spectacle in the film takes place in a much more...

“La mia Camera” means my room, a balcony with curtains, (and my film camera). The main characters are the wind and its dancing playmate,...

This was supposed to be a trial film for the artist to test her defective camera. In Allegory, Friedl vom Gröller stands in the foreground of...