September 18, 2011, 1 p.m. and 3 p.m.
The six-part film series starts with the experimental metamorphoses of Segundo de Chomón, a pioneer of early animation film (with live music by Billy Roisz), and the found-footage artist and master avant-garde filmmaker Martin Arnold. In selected earlier works as well as his new film Self Control (world première), Arnold brings the repressed in Hollywood and Disney movies to the surface, raising awareness for filmic perspectives. A fascinating parallelism emerges: with the necessary revision of a modern conception of art that once used the same term "primitive" to describe animist cultures as well as the early cinema.

1 p.m.: Segundo de Chomón—Phantasmagorias and
Short Comedies (1905–1912)
Ah! La Barbe! (1905), Sculpteur moderne (1908), Le Charmeur (1906), Le Spectre rouge (1907), Voyage sur Jupiter (1909), La Maison ensorcelée (1907), Electric Hôtel (1908), L’Insaissable pickpocket (1908), En Avant la musique (1907), Le Voleur invisible (1909).
Billy Roisz—live scoring (electronic instruments, electric bass, turntable)

Martin Arnold in conversation with Sabine Folie, director, Generali Foundation

Self control (2011) White flashes, flying ears, and the clenched fist. A brief cartoon sequence from the 1940s is disassembled into its graphical components, undoing the layering of drawn forms generated in a process of divided labor. Subsequently presented one by one, they leave most of the original action shrouded in darkness. Body parts in the void, a human being, an animal? The best guess, perhaps: a figure. In figurative terms, the images of hands and a snout sometimes also recall Munch’s The Scream, and now and then the sight of the tongue, long as a tie, also hints at the Rolling Stones logo, which will not be designed for several decades: Edvard, Mick, and Jerry? Be that as it may: white flashes and flying ears turning pink. And whereas the right hand seems to try, again and again, to form a helpless fist, the left ultimately enters the picture armed with a brick. And it strikes back. (Martin Arnold)

An event held by the Generali Foundation and the Filmcasino in collaboration with the Austrian Film Museum (OeFM). 

Admission: € 8,00. Movie ticket holders receive free admission to the exhibition. Exhibition ticket holders are eligible for reduced admission to one screening.

*Detailed information about the film program will be available in a separate folder and on our website from mid-September on.