Film Screening

As part of the exhibition Blick ins Archiv, Thomas Hörl and Peter Kozek present a selection of films at the neighboring Cinema Paradiso. Admission is free. The program includes works created both individually and in collaboration with other artists.

Venue: Cinema Paradiso, Beethovengasse 2a, 2500 Baden

Start: 1 p.m.

Following the screening, curators Juliana Furthner and Pia Wamsler will walk visitors through the exhibition Blick ins Archiv. The tour will be held in German.

Film Program

F.W.M. Symphony

Thomas Hörl, 2022

This silent film in three acts, is based on the real-life events surrounding the disappearance of Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's head: the skull stolen from the film director’s Berlin tomb in 2015 becomes the anchor of a narrative which splices fictional and historical identities.

Demonic Screens I–III, Selected Scenes

Peter Kozek & Thomas Hörl with Alexander Martinz, 2017–2019

Conceived as a three-part project, the film is oriented  on the horror film genre along with its many variants, subgenres, and hybrid phenomena. These historical references play out before the background of contemporary issues in society, politics, and the respective local scene.

LICHTHÖHE

Peter Kozek & Thomas Hörl with Victor Jaschke, 2022

LICHTHÖHE, the title of the work is a play on words that connects high altitude with lightness. It explores the layers of an architectonic-tectonic setting, in which earth and human history, respect for the sublime and mass consumption, tradition and state of emergency overlap.

Shaken Grounds, Shifting Skies

Nikolaus Gansterer, Mariella Greil, Victor Jaschke, Peter Kozek, Werner Möbius, and Lucie Strecker, 2024

Along seismic zones in Italy and Austria — from the Campi Flegrei and Mount Vesuvius to the island of Vulcano and the melting Pasterze Glacier — the film combines landscape imagery with studio recordings, reflecting on how geological instability and human-induced environmental change shape bodies and perception.