Event category: Jury

Thomas Renoldner

Thomas Renoldner Special Screening

Thomas Renoldner is an Austrian artist with a focus on experimental film. Music, drawing, painting, installation and performance have been his artistic interests from his youth and many of these artistic approaches can also be found in his films. His career started with self-taught Super-8 films, and has continued through animation studies to numerous cinematic explorations.
Thomas Renoldner is a jury member of TAFF 2023.
Films in this screening in four chapters:

1. 1980’s: THE NAIVE, BUT ‘CINEMA-ANALYTIC’ PERIOD

1. How to do a Trickfilm
Super-8, 1982, (edited 2023), 06:15

2. Warten Sie auf etwas Besonderes ? (Are you waiting for somethings special ?)
Super-8, 1983, 04:22

3. Die Begrenzungslinien der Projektionsfäche (The borderlines of the projection screen)
Super-8, 1983, 03:13

2. 1990’s – PART 1: THE ACADEMY YEARS: ANIMATION STUDIES

4. Bunt (Colorful)
16mm, 1990, 04:05

5. Würfel (Cubes)
16mm, 1990, 02:00

6. Lonely Cowboy in 1992
16mm, 1992, 02:33

7. Rhythmus 94 (Rhythm 94)
16mm, 1994, 04:10

2a. commissioned film in between:
8. MTV- Station ID „Cubes“
35mm, 1998, 00:10

3. 1990’s – PART 2: THE SPLIT SCREEN YEARS: EXPERIMENTS WITH TIME AND SPACE

9. Hiroshima.August.92
16mm, 1997, 05:56

10. Picnic in the green
16mm, 1996, 03:05

11. Sophia’s Year
12 times Super-8 split screen on 35mm, 1998, 10:53

3a. commissioned film in between:
12. Mozart Party ’06
35mm, 2006, 00:10

4. AFTER 2010: RESTART, REMIX & RENEWAL

13. Fuck the Cancer ! (short version)
2K digital video, 2016/20, 05:00

14. Dont know what
4K digital video, 2019, 08:07

4a. commissioned film, for reasons of actuality
No more war („Kinospot gegen Gewalt“)
35mm, 1995, 00:15

Jury Screening

NOTICE! The starting time has been delayed to 14:30

 

TAFF Jury 2023 are Aline Höchli (CH), Kaisa Penttilä (FIN) and Thomas Renoldner (AU). In this screening we offer our jury members’ best of the best: experimental, artistic, funny and touching films.

Films in this screening:

Kaisa Penttilä, Leena Jääskeläinen:

Boris the Råt Gets Fit
(Råtta Booris kuntoilee)

Finland, 2012. 5 minutes.

Boris. A Rat with issues. He decides to mend his ways which soon attracts the attention of the police. Anneli the Baltic Herring, Boris´s best friend is deeply embarrassed. Boris is soon to learn the lesson of his life.

Thomas Renoldner:

Too many strokes
(Ein Schlag zuviel)

Austria, 1989. 3 minutes.

Kaisa Penttilä:

The Landing
(Maihinnousu)

Finland, 2021. 9 minutes.

A family holiday in a zoo is interrupted when an unknown species tries to enter the zone.

Aline Höchli:

He sö kherö

Switzerland, 2016. 6 minutes.

The woman saves fishes. The crocodile eats fishes. The woman loves the crocodile and the crocodile loves her. The film follows their everyday life and, in short episodes, tells of their difficulties.

Thomas Renoldner:

Structure / Dissolution
(Struktur / Auflösung)

Austria, 1989. 4 minutes.

Kaisa Penttilä:

The Egg Race
(Munaralli)

Finland, 2009. 9 minutes.

A young pigeon couple get their first egg for which they have been waiting for a long time. When the egg is laid, the pigeons start a vigorous education project. Instead of hatching the egg, the pigeons start whisking it around in a rally car…

Aline Höchli:

Cuckoo

Switzerland, 2017. 3 minutes.

The skinny, young girl spends her time alone feeding pigeons in the park. But even they fly away from her. Suddenly, company turns up. But the beanpole feels uneasy about the new companionship, so she sets about going to a specialist for parasites.

Kaisa Penttilä, Reetta Neittaanmäki:

The Plastic Godzilla of the Baltic Sea
(Itämeren Muovigodzilla)

Finland, 2017. 3 minutes.

The plastic Godzilla of the Baltic Sea is coming soon. It’s catastrophic!

Thomas Renoldner:

Sunny Afternoon

Austria, 2012. 7 minutes.

Sunny Afternoon is the confrontation of a “kind of” an avant-garde film with a “kind of” a music video, consequently questioning the standard taboos and clichés of both “genres”.