hans schifferle
Through the labyrinth of images to Bady Minck's surreal Heimatfilm
A fantastic heimat film poem about Austria, and at the same time a reflection on seeing and hearing, on images and sounds coming into being and fading away, on the fascinating interaction of image and text. Inspired by a silent film, but also by modern and post-modern filmmakers, such as Jan Švankmajer, David Lynch or David Cronenberg. Oscillating between live action and animation, Bady Minck lets poet Bodo Hell drift through Austria and its universe of images, from the bizarre-looking Erzberg mountain in Styria to the apparently so cosy and familiar city of Salzburg. The history of the places and landscapes mainly unfolds in manically rapid montage sequences of postcards from over one hundred years.
Perhaps Minck's cine-poem might be described as an experimental road movie through the labyrinth of pictures and images that make up Austria, perhaps it is a large-scale flip book of popular dream worlds and snatches of private memories. Actually the backs and fronts of the postcards do bring all these strands together: kitsch and myth, photography and the written word, topicality and transience. Horror permeates the idyll in the case of the postcards dating from the Nazi era.
Minck's surreal, often painful Austria anime of internal and external landscapes astonishes the viewer; for here thought processes and reflexions are animated and become sensually tangible.
Heidi Dumreicher l Sergio Fant l Marcy Goldberg l Bodo Hell l Christoph Huber l Lilli Lička l Johannes Moser l Michael O'Pray l Burghart Schmidt l Christian Stadelmann l Mika Taanila l Jean-Philippe Tessé l Barbara Wurm