Friedl vom Gröller Filmes

The lovesick Jelena spends her afternoons strolling among the tombs and leafless trees at Père-Lachaise cemetery. As she sings...

“This unwavering attitude as well as his decision to develop his own film style under and with financially difficult circumstances are the...

Wedding is a meta-amateur film, a reflection and a condensation of its form: black and white, silent, 16mm, and only two minutes long. A married...

16mm short film

16mm short film

The theme of this short film is the relationship between psychoanalyst and client. Vom Gröll plays the analyst, a role she knows from real life....

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

Friedl vom Gröller invites a stranger to his small apartment in Paris and records his reactions to an unexpected striptease.

May 2012 is composed of three visual elements. In the momentary opening shot the camera spies on riverside joggers from the Donaumarina U-Bahn...

Winter in Paris begins with a still-life of a window sill and beautifully detours to a gruesome-erotic allegory of death.

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...

Portrait of the artist’s mother as an old woman. A farewell vignette, a final sketch from her nursing home, silent, aloof, clumsy, metallic...

Photo session is a film about a pair. A human pair: man and woman, no longer young but when they laugh together they´re as exuberant as...

Playing a part or stepping outside it. Lisa, who looks like Friedl vom Gröller´s sister, practises looking into the camera. She adjusts...

In a series of films made in the 1990s Friedl Kubelka introduced a new element: her participation in the film by interacting with the subject. These...

The focus narrows to short cuts relating to the place were the footage was shot, then moves to the portrait´s subject, Franz West, sitting at a...

A small, cheerful homage to one of Friedl vom Gröller's favorite directors – Carl Theodor Dreyer – or perhaps a game of telephone...

A bowl on the ground. The fallen leaves around it reference autumn. A letter enters the frame—aged hands tear it up, and its pieces fall into...