Movies: Thomas Renoldner

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range o...

The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of hurting in the language of an inoccent child....

The generating material for Rhythm 94 is a sequence of photographs taken by the cinematographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge. The sequence is transposed into a single movement across the screen. The basic pattern arising out of the abstract nature of t...

Sabotage acts are committed on the film theaters of a city for no apparent reason. Two secretaries of "Mega Film", which has been damaged by a sabotage act, decide to try to find the saboteurs in order to determine what their motives are....

The confrontation of “kind of” an avant-garde film with “kind of” a music video, and consequently puts questions about the standard taboos and clichés of different filmgenres. Both avant-garde film and music video use music and sound “typical for the...

A man gazes into the camera, breaths, speaks, and blinks. In playfully formal austerity, Thomas Renoldner explores the borders of the cinematic genre. Real film becomes stop-motion, language a hammering noise staccato. The film draws comical and inte...

In 1833, mathematician Simon von Stampfer introduced the stroboscopic disc in Vienna—one of the earliest cinema prototypes. The discs feature all forms of animation: abstract and narrative, documentary and (quite literally!) experimental. This film i...

The film is uncommonly poetic and refined. The pictures come from a book by Federica Pagnucco and Linda Wolfsgruber, realized with printed characters in wood and lead. An old printing tecnique, well blended with wood-printed shapes, which gives a spe...

Not my first, but quite early animation "test films" realized back in approx. 1985....