Movies: Maria Lassnig

A short documentary on Arnulf Rainer, famous for overpainting portraiture presenting the "face farce" concept....

mid-1970s, 3 min, originally on 16mm, silent...

About a group of graduates from Cambridge University who go back to their college to visit a friend who has stayed on there. Otto Muehl founded a community of artists in Vienna in 1970 with the aim of exploring a completely free life practice. Since ...

mid-1970s, 8 min, originally on 16mm, silent...

A conciliatory review of the life of the author using the techniques of animated film. In 1972, Selfportrait received the award of the New York State Council....

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970....

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1974....

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970....

Rough cut by Maria Lassnig. Color correction and final cut completed posthumously by Mara Mattuschka and Hans Werner Poschauko in accordance with Lassnig’s notes from her notebook on film, “Yom Kippur, 1970s.” Soundtrack: Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. ...

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1974....

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot from 1971-74....

In an associative montage statues of saints in rigid and rapt poses are cross cut with those of real actors until the two can no longer be told apart. Gradually the real bodies break away from the constraints of their wooden models through increasing...

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in the early 1970s....

a) a fat girl singing about not wanting to get thin just to please men. b) the first time for her and him. c) at the fortune-teller. A confrontation of horrible science and horrible superstition....

The Austrian artist Maria Lassnig tells us the story of her life in 14 verses, beginning with her birth and ending with her life as it is today. Simultaneusly - in the background - we see the story as animated drawings, full of irony, humor and wisdo...

A slender chair works out while a cushioned one strains. Hand-drawn comedy with early cinema motifs. A woman arrives and sits, finding a perfect fit....

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970....

Feministic interpretations of famous paintings by Vermeer, Michelangelo and others....

Maria Lassnig's take on the fairytale. A collaboration with dancer Liesbeth Eberwein (Baroque Statues)....

Shot in New York in the mid-1970s, Maria Lassnig's Alice is an unconventional portrait of the titular woman, with footage of her body accented by superimposed fireworks, Händel, and Lassnig's laconic voice-over....