This screening is part of the postdoctoral research project Elemental Alchemy in Experimental
Cinema. An event by the Department of Media Theory at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
The 60-minute programme brings together photochemical films that open pathways to alchemical and cosmic
imagination by mobilizing elemental forces. Moving between abstract and more figurative states, the works mirror primordial
conditions of matter and life as they gradually take form.
Curated by Bori Máté (FWF-ESPRIT
Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
Organised in collaboration
with Markus Maicher (Filmkoop Wien; Doctoral Student, Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna)
ProgrammeThe screening will be preceded by a short introduction and brief contextual remarks on the
films and artists, and followed by a Q&A session with invited guests. Filmmakers Cosma Grosser, Markus Maicher and Stefanie
Weberhofer will be present, with Lallita Bliss (a.k.a. Cherry Kino) joining online.
Doors open:
19:30Selected works will be accompanied by a live musical performance by members of the Punctum Collective:
Evgeny Ignashev (electronics), Eirini Krikoni (violin), and Jake Mann (clarinet, bass clarinet).
- Dissolved (Aufgelöst)
(Stefanie Weberhofer, 2015, 4:00)
- A Study in Natural Magic (Charlotte Pryce, 2013, 3:00, 16 mm)
- Das Schöpfwerk
(Jürgen Reble, 2013, 11:00)
- TLECAXITL (Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2021, 9:13)
- Lunar Almanach (Malena Szlam,
2013, 4:00, 16 mm)
- Ultima/Prélude (Giulia Grossmann, 2025, 13:30)
- Salt (Cherry Kino, 2013, 7:48)
- Wasteland
No. 3: Moons, Sons (Jodie Mack, 2021, 5:00)
- BLÄTTER IM HERBST/Leaves in Autumn (Markus Maicher, 2018, 4:01, 16 mm)
- Matter
in Place II (Cosma Grosser, 2023, 2:13)
