GME Presents 2 Austrian Avant-Garde Filmmakers: Alfred Kaiser and Virgil Widrich

GME Presents 2 Austrian Avant-Garde Filmmakers: Alfred Kaiser and Virgil Widrich

The found footage works of Austrian filmmakers Alfred Kaiser (1940 – 1994) from the 1970s (DECOMPOSING NAZI PHRASEOLOGY) and the later films of Virgil Widrich (VIRGIL WIDRICH – SHORT FILMS [1998-2019]) are lesser known than those of Gustav Deutsch and Peter Tscherkassky, but are equally significant in their own right. Kaiser’s films illustrate and demolish the world of Nazi thought and imagery, while Widrich’s films explore time and space, especially the illusion of 3-dimensionality in cinema.

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