Maria Lassnig
Directing
Biography
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Known For
Alice
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.
The Ballad of Maria Lassnig
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 wisdom.
Moonlanding/Janus Head
A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot from 1971-72.
Back to Fucking Cambridge
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 1972, this society experiment at the Friedrichshof in Burgenland, 60 kilometers from Vienna, further developed. From the mid-1970s, other municipalities were founded in 30 European cities. At Friedrichshof itself lived at times up to 240 members and visitors.
Filmography
as Narrator (voice)
as Anna O.