Werner von Mutzenbecher
Film is a Mystery
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Original format 16mm
Year 1968-2017
Language(s) German
Artist(s) Werner von Mutzenbacher
Booklet 96 pages (French, English, German)
Running time 165 min
Films
I/68 DINGE (1968) 8'
II/69 KUNSTHALLE (1969) 6'
III/71 AKTIONEN (1971) 15'
XIV/82 FILME (1982) 21'
XV/84 VOGELHAUS (1984) 9'
XVI/84 FENSTER III (1984) 4'
XXVII/03 FILMMAKER'S AFTERNOON (2003) 6'
XIX/88 4x8 (1988) 3'
MOVIMENTI II/90 (1990) 3'
XVII/85 PROJEKTIONEN (1985) 8'
OBJEKTE (FLICKERFILM) (2017) 3'
PERSONAE (DREI GENERATIONEN) (2017) 4'
XX/88 PELCZYN (1988) 12'
IX/75 SCHLACHTOF (1975) 20'
X/78 RHEINHAFEN (1978) 12'
ROM 70/71 (1970-71) 20'
XXII/90 WOLF-PASSERELLE (1990) 6'
XVIII/85 UNTERGRUND (1985) 5'
Description
"Although von Mutzenbecher has gained greater recognition as a painter, his film work has followed a distinct and equally effective path. His approach to each medium remains faithful to their unique characteristics. Working systematically alone, the filmmaker often appears in his films. Other people are rarely seen. Instead, we are given spaces and objects to observe. The spaces between objects, private and public environments, mundane domestic objects, remarkable architecture, suggestions of psychological states."
— Mark Webber
"Von Mutzenbecher's films, which constitute a relatively small body of work produced over the past fifty years, occupy a place apart in the history of experimental cinema. They are neither properly "structural" or "objective," nor simply personal, diaristic, or generically "poetic." They combine both modes, lyrical and descriptive, through their structural formal approach, often deadpan, to personally recorded charged material."
— Adam Szymczy