Maria Lassnig - Film Works (Paperback with DVD)

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

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.