Re:MODERN

June 4 to 19, 2005

The medium of film was born out of the spirt of modernism and left its mark on the 20th century like no other form of expression. Contemporary art which is once again increasingly involved with the Modern, finds itself almost inevitably brought into a confrontation with film and its history. The exhibiton project Re:MODERN at the Vienna Künstlerhaus (May 20 to September 11) and at the Film Museum acknowledges this phenomenon. Six Re:MODERN artists have been invited to conceive programmes with historic and contemporary films of either their own or others' making.

Josef Dabernig, Marko Lulic, Lev Manovich, Florian Pumhösl, Lotte Schreiber and Florian Wüst – all of whom are positioned in the area where film confronts visual arts – display their subjective vantage points on aspects of the Modern in film. Classic films (by Sergei Eisenstein, Maya Deren, Georges Franju and Želimir Žilnik) will be seen in this context, as well as rarities and contemporary works (by Charles and Ray Eames, Öyvind Fahlström, Jack Goldstein, Hy Hirsh, Peter Weiss and others). Many of these films will be shown for the first time in Austria; Dabernig's newest work Lancia Thema will receive its world première.
 
Re:MODERN, curated by Norbert Pfaffenbichler and Sandro Droschl, is a joint project of the Künstlerhaus and the Film Museum.