Movies

Wedding is a meta-amateur film, a reflection and a condensation of its form: black and white, silent, 16mm, and only two minutes long. A married...

A cheerful ritual in praise of Mami Wata, a mermaid-like water spirit of life, sex and healing. A joyful show of Friedl vom Gröller's particular...

The natural law of capitalism as expressed by a hungry boa constrictor.

“La mia Camera” means my room, a balcony with curtains, (and my film camera). The main characters are the wind and its dancing playmate,...

Winter in Paris begins with a still-life of a window sill and beautifully detours to a gruesome-erotic allegory of death.

Portraits and fragmented views of Paris intertwine.

The film by photographer and filmmaker Friedl vom Gröller is the short portrait of a woman full of secrets. The viewer can observe her but is...

Friedl vom Gröller´s Rust starts by gazing into the strained face of the saint. The artist herself reads "Holzschnitt", or woodcut, rather...

A group of people in a room eating pizza, drinking, conversing, perhaps having a party.

Five older women, loosely grouped in two rows, gaze into the camera. At times only details of their faces can be seen, a sixth woman walks through...

A 2010 silent short film directed by Friedl vom Gröller. The film screened at Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2011.

Portrait of the artist’s mother as an old woman. A farewell vignette, a final sketch from her nursing home, silent, aloof, clumsy, metallic...

A silent, black and white film portrait of two children set against the eponymous Swiss river, Ticino takes its cue from Franz West's famous...

Although this film does not follow the genre of the city portrait in any way whatsoever, it nonetheless presents a documentation of the...

A salon piece in black and white. The filmmaker circles the amorous play. Gestures and blurs, intuitively precise in-camera edits condense the...

Oppressive and childlike, erotic symbols and surreal moments.

May 2012 is composed of three visual elements. In the momentary opening shot the camera spies on riverside joggers from the Donaumarina U-Bahn...

It's composed of multiple jump-cut close-ups of a beautiful Roman Bacchante bust with garland braid and vacant eyes in the Louvre, as students and...