short films: text

marc adrian / jörg piringer / anton nikkilä | austria / finland, 1963-2019 | 50'

in our opening screening, we will start with the absolute basics when it comes to text and cinema: three different approaches to making a film out of nothing but white text on a black background, whether forming sentences, individual words, syllables, or even just configurations of individual characters. first off, two seminal films by austrian pioneer of (among other things) computer-assisted filmmaking marc adrian (1930-2008); then some character-animations / digital poetry improvisations by his younger compatriot, jörg piringer (b. 1974); and finally the finnish premiere of the oberhausen 2018 -premiered english-language version of anton nikkilä's (b. 1965) literal translations, a 30-minute semi-abstract narrative consisting of nothing but intertitles, subtitles and sound, in a remarkable feat of imageless filmmaking. welcome to metakino!

text i-ii | marc adrian | austria, 1963-64 | 3'+3'

concept & realization marc adrian | distribution / copy source sixpackfilm

srfaem / xztksfro / silent sound poems | jörg piringer | austria, 2015-19 | 3 x 3'

concept & realization jörg piringer | distribution / copy source jörg piringer

literal translations | anton nikkilä | finland, 2018 | 33'

direction, script, editing, music anton nikkilä | distribution / copy source anton nikkilä