PFF
COLLECTIONS

21 June
Wednesday 21-06-2023
time 17:50
Teatro Sperimentale - Sala Grande

Il mio film

Sasha Pirker

GEWESEN SEIN WIRD

Austria 2022 , 17'30''

 

The gaze becomes space. The film’s subtitle is frankly explanatory, “The Apartment of Heinz Frank,” which alone would be more than sufficient as we are going to scan a bizarre early 20th-century studio flat inch by inch, but instead there is so much more, i.e., art and design objects, reflections on the art and life of the character who lived there, recollections that become universal. The tiny Viennese apartment (30 square metres) was recently under the limelight as the shelter of Heinz Frank for literally all his life – he painstakingly shaped and perfected it with amazingly original solutions in his own image (like “a third skin,” in the words of his daughter who is our guide) and is still filled with artworks – but now that he is dead is in danger of being sold, thus losing a rare contemporary gesamtkunstwerk forever. Departing from the small flat, that shows the influence of modernist architecture (Adolf Loos, Josef Frank), and from the amusing stories told by the painter/designer’s daughter, Pirker’s film puts together a portrait of an artist who is never to be seen.

   

MILENA GIERKE crediti Martin Schoeller

 

Sasha Pirker, born 1969 in Vienna, is an artist and filmmaker. She studied Linguistics in Vienna and Paris. Besides making films, since 2006 she teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the field of film, video and art. Since 2014 she runs the independent space “Size Matters. Space for Art and Film” in Vienna (together with Adnan Balcinovic).

 


cinematography Ortrun Bauer
editing Sasha Pirker
sound Stefan Németh
cast Lilli Breuer-Guttmann

 


ALL SCREENINGS ARE FREE