FILM SCREENING | MICHAEL PILZ RETROSPECTIVE | ROSE AND JASMINE
The Austrian Cultural Forum New York and Anthology Film Archives present a selection of films and videos by experimental filmmaker Michael Pilz. A crucial figure in Austrian avant-garde cinema for more than four decades, Pilz (born 1943) is perhaps best known on these shores for his collaboration with John Cook, which produced the film Slow Summer (recently preserved, and screened at Anthology last year), and for the monumental experimental documentary Heaven and Earth. An astoundingly prolific artist, he has maintained a remarkable rate of production throughout his career, and this program offers New York audiences one of the first chances to experience the full breadth of his work, from Heaven and Earth to the video diaries he has created during his extensive travels across the world over the past two decades.
Michael Pilz will be at Anthology to present and discuss his work in person.
ROSE AND JASMINE
No dialogue, 2010, 106 minutes, video
A cinematic poem based on the director’s journeys in Iran from 2006-07. By patiently and gently observing both people and place, Pilz collects images and sounds of ravishing beauty.
“In ancient China before an artist began to paint anything – a tree, for instance – he would sit down in front of it for days, months, years, it didn’t matter how long, until he was the tree. He did not identify himself with the tree but he was the tree…and in that state only could he paint.” – M.P.
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