Sonic Fiction - Synaesthetic
Videos from Austria - by INDEX [at]
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A series of experimental films representing the Austrian music,
film and audiovisual scene at the turn of the 21st century.
Over the last 15 years, the Austrians have become celebrated
for their development of the progressive electronic scene,
whether radical ‘laptop-artists’ seeking the limits
for hard and software (Peter Rehberg, Farmers manual), electro-acoustic
composers looking for new applications for their guitars (Christian
Fennesz) or a post-rock band who demonstrate classic beat
approches via digital media (Radian). Animators and video
creators work alongside them: if the musicians focus on the
modern role of the pure sound, silence, new abstraction and
narration through technology, then the filmmakers, concentrating
on light, dark, minimalism and the treatment of technical
images, have a lot in common with them.
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Austrian avant-garde film represents a success story in itself.
In no other film genre have domestic filmmakers secured such
an international recognition and renown. A number of different
factors have enabled its development, one of which is possibly
the general radicalisation of the Viennese art scene in the
1950s and 1960s, in particular the Vienna Actionists.
The dynamism of Austrian experimental cinema has also been
supported actively by a distributor, Sixpack Film, founded
in 1990 with the help of local filmmakers. Since then, Sixpack
Film has provided a wide access to festivals around the world
and other suitable venues to audiovisual works which have
no place in a commercial system.
Over the years, the audiovisual field has undergone extensive
expansion and now includes video, generation and manipulation
of digital images, and multimedia production. Beside the initial
task of public screenings, Sixpack Film started INDEX in collaboration
with Medienwerkstatt Wien in 2004. A DVD label specialized
in audiovisual publications relevant to the history of international
and Austrian film, video and media art.
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Isabelle Piechaczyk was born in Paris. After university studies
she started in 1989 to organize concerts, performances and
screenings at Les Etablissements Phonographiques de l’Est,
a cult underground location in Paris dedicated to industrial
and avant-garde music and other experimental art forms. Few
years later, as record shop manager and one of the initiators
of the Büro events, she contributed to the development
of the Parisian electronic music scene. In 1999 she moved
to Vienna and set up Mdbs (Mego direct booking Service). She
now works for INDEX DVD Edition since its creation in 2004.
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