In Person:
Bruce & Norman Yonemoto - Made in Hollywood
June 3 and 4, 2026
Bruce (b. 1949) and Norman Yonemoto (1946–2014) were frequent collaborators from 1976 until Norman's death, working at the intersection of experimental cinema, media, and fine arts. A frequent setting for their films is the art world, which is also exemplified in their collaborations with artists such as Mike Kelly, Tony Oursler, and Mary Woronov. It is the production of images by the film industry, however, that forms their thematic frame of reference. This first survey of their work in Austria presents in the cinema a selection of intersectionality-informed work that oscillates between these spaces and disciplines. The city of Los Angeles and the myth of Hollywood embedded within it run like a leitmotiv throughout the brothers' entire body of work, having been raised in California as the children of Japanese-American parents and strongly informed by a West Coast mentality.
Their main fields of investigation include desire and the idea of romantic love, especially as it is staged in melodramas, soap operas, and the advertising industry, and how these media images inform – and not infrequently contaminate – our perceptions, affects, and behavioral patterns. Sex, politics, and ethnic identity – above all from the perspective of outsiders and under the influence of the history of Japanese-American culture – combine to form a conglomerate of what tend to be excessive linguistic and visual forms of expression never lacking in humor.
All four programs will open with a vocal performance (karaoke-style) from the multi-channel installation ENKA! (Jonida Laçi, Dietmar Schwärzler / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In collaboration with sixpackfilm
Bruce (b. 1949) and Norman Yonemoto (1946–2014) were frequent collaborators from 1976 until Norman's death, working at the intersection of experimental cinema, media, and fine arts. A frequent setting for their films is the art world, which is also exemplified in their collaborations with artists such as Mike Kelly, Tony Oursler, and Mary Woronov. It is the production of images by the film industry, however, that forms their thematic frame of reference. This first survey of their work in Austria presents in the cinema a selection of intersectionality-informed work that oscillates between these spaces and disciplines. The city of Los Angeles and the myth of Hollywood embedded within it run like a leitmotiv throughout the brothers' entire body of work, having been raised in California as the children of Japanese-American parents and strongly informed by a West Coast mentality.
Their main fields of investigation include desire and the idea of romantic love, especially as it is staged in melodramas, soap operas, and the advertising industry, and how these media images inform – and not infrequently contaminate – our perceptions, affects, and behavioral patterns. Sex, politics, and ethnic identity – above all from the perspective of outsiders and under the influence of the history of Japanese-American culture – combine to form a conglomerate of what tend to be excessive linguistic and visual forms of expression never lacking in humor.
All four programs will open with a vocal performance (karaoke-style) from the multi-channel installation ENKA! (Jonida Laçi, Dietmar Schwärzler / Translation: Ted Fendt)
In collaboration with sixpackfilm
Link sixpackfilm