This English-language publication provides the first comprehensive index of Lassnig’s film works, offering insight into the filmmaker’s world of ideas through a wide selection of Lassnig’s own previously unpublished notes. It also includes a selection of Lassnig's "films in progress" on DVD. Two essays by James Boaden and Stefanie Proksch-Weilguni place Lassnig’s work in the context of the US-American film avant-garde of the 1970s, while conversations with Mara Mattuschka, Hans Werner Poschauko and the restoration team shed a light on the rediscovery of Lassnig’s fascinating films.
The enclosed DVD contains a selection of the "films in progress" series.
Table of Contents
Editor's Foreword
Maria Lassnig Remembered - Reminiscences by International Artists, Curators, Filmmakers
Soul Sisteres: Incorporating Women Artist Filmmakers - James Boaden
"She said she had handpicked the most beautiful ones." A conversation on Maria Lassnig's Filmic Estate - Michael Loebenstein, Mara Mattuscchka, Hans Werner Poschauko
Animation as a Form of Art - Maria Lassnig
On the Digitization and Restoration of Lassning's "Films in Progress" - Michael Loebenstein, Ivana Milos, Claudio Santancini
Optical Printer - Jocelyn Miller
Maria Lassnig: Picturing Bodily Awareness - Stefanie Proksch-Weilguni
Maria Lassnig's Anti-War Film - Beatrice von Borman
Notes on Film - Maria Lassnig
Filmography:
Canonical Films (Art Education; Baroque Statues; Chairs; Couples; Encounter; Iris [Soul Sisters]; Maria Lassnig Kantate (The Ballad of Maria Lassnig); Palmistry; Selfportrait; Shapes)
"Films in Progress"
Films with "Oeuvre Status" (Autumn Thoughts; Black Dancer; Broadway I, II; Dog Film; Godfather I, II, III; Kopf (Head); Moonlanding / Janus Head; Mountain Woman; Nitsch; The Princess and the Shepherd. A Fairytale; Seasons; Souls Sisters. Alice; Soul Sisteres. Bärbl; Sould Sisters. Hilde; Stone Lifting. A Selfportrait in Progress)
Unscreened Films (Adam and Eve; Bronx Zoo; Fabian; Mary Sposeto; Reiner; Roger and Denise; Ronnie; Schmetterlinge (Butterflies); Stara Braska
Appendix
Biography: Maria Lassnig
Selected Bibliography on Maria Lassning's Films
Contributors
Sources
Acknowledgements
This DVD contains
Soul Sisters. Alice, 1974/79, 5 min
Autumn Thoughts, ca. 1975, 2 min
Soul Sisters. Bärbl, 1974/79, 5 min
Black Dancer, 1974, 1 min
Broadway I + II, early 1970s, 2 min/1 min
Dog Film, mid-1970s, 3 min
Encounter, 1970, 1 min
Godfather I + II + III, 1974, 5 min/3 min/2 min
Soul Sisters. Hilde, 1972/76, 5 min
Kopf (Head), mid-1970s, 1 min
Moonlanding / Janus Head, early 1970s, 7 min
Mountain Woman, mid-1970s, 8 min
Nitsch, 1972, 5 min
The Princess and the Shepherd. A Fairytale, 1976/78, 13 min
Seasons, 1970, 2 min
Stone Lifting. A Self Portrait in Progress, 1971/75, 7 min
Maria Lassnig (1919–2014) is internationally recognized as one of the most important painters of the 20th and 21st centuries. The leitmotif of her painting, the act of rendering her body awareness visible, found additional expression in film in New York in the early 1970s. While several of these films have long since been part of her canonical works (e.g. Selfportrait, Iris, and Couples), many remained unfinished. These "films in progress" can be regarded as autobiographical notes as well as an artistic experiment featuring many of Lassnig's recognizable subjects and methods. In 2018, this filmic legacy was restored and in many cases completed according to her original concept and instructions by two close collaborators, artists Mara Mattuschka and Hans Werner Poschauko.
Eszter Kondor is the author of Aufbrechen, a German-language chronicle of the early history of the Austrian Film Museum, where she currently coordinates the publishing activities.
Michael Loebenstein is the director of the Austrian Film Museum, where the original materials of Lassnig’s “films in progress” were digitized and the restoration carried out in close collaboration with the Maria Lassnig Foundation.
Peter Pakesch is an Austrian exhibition curator, museum director, and founding director of the Maria Lassnig Foundation.
Hans Werner Poschauko is an Austrian artist and curator, a student in the class of Maria Lassnig and her assistant until her death in 2014, and a board member at the Maria Lassnig Foundation.
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9783901644863
Author(s)
Lassnig, Maria; Kondor, Eszter; Loebenstein, Michael; Pakesch, Peter; Poschauko, Hans Werner
Publisher(s)
Austrian Film Museum with INDEX Edition
Editor(s)
Kondor, Eszter; Loebenstein, Michael; Pakesch, Peter; Poschauko, Hans Werner
