Michaela Schwentner

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Michaela Schwentner (born July 28, 1970 in Linz , Upper Austria ) is an Austrian artist and filmmaker .

Life and work

Michaela Schwentner studied theater studies, history, philosophy and journalism at the University of Vienna .

She has been working as a freelance artist since 1997. From 2006 to 2013 she taught at the Institute for Experimental Design at the Art University Linz . She has been a lecturer at the Institute for Art and Design at the Vienna University of Technology since 2013 and at the Vienna Film Academy since 2014 .

Schwentner's early experimental short films were made in cooperation with musicians, composers and sound artists such as Peter Rehberg, Pure, Radian , Paul Clouvel and were primarily concerned with the visualization of sound, with abstraction, reduction and formal aspects being the main focus.

Since 2012 Schwentner has been producing essayistic short films that deal with philosophical questions and thematize and reflect the principle of staging itself. Your films are distributed by the Austrian film distributor sixpackfilm and the French distributor lightcone . Her films have been shown at international festivals, including the Sundance Film Festival , Edinburgh International Film Festival , Short Film Festival Hamburg , International Film Festival Rotterdam , Cork Film Festival , London IFF, Holland Animation FF, New York Underground FF, Transmediale Berlin and at the Short Film Festival Oberhausen . In Austria Schwentner's films were shown at the Viennale , the Diagonale Graz, Crossing Europe Linz and Vienna Shorts . Schwentner is also involved in numerous international exhibitions.

In 2007 Schwentner received the Outstanding Artist Award for film .

Fonts

  • Shift change - chopping in Ebensee. Festival of the Regions 2015, publisher: Festival of the Regions, Ottensheim 2015
  • Film Unframed. A History of Austrian Avant-garde Cinema. FilmmuseumSynemaPublication, Ed. Peter Tscherkassky, Vienna 2012
  • Breaking unambiguity. Curatorial practice. Shedhalle 2009–2012, Ed. Anke Hoffmann, Yvonne Volkart. Zurich, 2012
  • CrossMedia. Kunstverein Medienturm (ed.), Folio Verlag, Graz, 2007
  • Le cinéma austria. In: Austriaca. Cahiers universitaires d'information sur l'AutricheN ° 64, Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre 2007
  • The Mozart Minute. Vienna Mozart Year, Vienna, 2006
  • Abstraction Now. Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Sandro Droschl (ed.), Verlag Edition Camera Austria, Graz, 2004

Video compilations

  • Visionary. Index DvD, Vienna, 2009
  • female: pressure DVD1. female: pressure, Vienna, 2008
  • Video Edition Austria. Release 02, Vienna, 2008
  • The Gift of Sound and Vision. The Austrian film. Edition Der Standard, Vienna, 2007
  • Radio station. medien.kunst.tirol, Innsbruck, 2006
  • Sonic fiction. Synaesthetic Videos from Austria. Index DvD Edition, Vienna, 2005
  • Austrian Abstracts 02 | 005. Lanolin, Vienna, 2005

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personal data
SURNAME Schwentner, Michaela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian artist and filmmaker
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Upper Austria