Friedl vom Gröller Movies

What goes missing in a time when mouths are covered by masks? At the beginning you see a set of replacement teeth. This still life opens the film,...

The film virtually opens with a false lead, showing a poster for for Shiseido cosmetics – the kind of sign we are accustomed to seeing in...

Like a dark screen stencil, a young woman dances in front of an open window. Although the film is silent, the rhythm of the music to which she dances...

Oppressive and childlike, erotic symbols and surreal moments.

Gaelle Obiegly is a film about not being able to see, and a reversal of the gaze.

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

A pan along a gallery of large washing machines in a laundromat. Two women speak sign language and a third feeds coins into the machine. Language is...

Portraits and fragmented views of Paris intertwine.

Photo session is a film about a pair. A human pair: man and woman, no longer young but when they laugh together they´re as exuberant as...

Playing a part or stepping outside it. Lisa, who looks like Friedl vom Gröller´s sister, practises looking into the camera. She adjusts...

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...

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...

Friedl vom Gröller's Poetry for Sale is a portrait of a young man peddling verse on the Paris metro. Reinforcing the antiquated nature of his...

A bowl on the ground. The fallen leaves around it reference autumn. A letter enters the frame—aged hands tear it up, and its pieces fall into...