Twelve conversations in German by Birgit Flos and Michael Pilz (July, 2022–February, 2023)

Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, edited by Michael Pilz, 750 pages, to be published near the end of 2024

DCP, 90 minutes, 16:9 and 4:3
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HDV, 12 minutes
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Based on the painting In The Fog by Maryam Farhang

HDV, 17 minutes
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Ritual performance „In The Fog” by Maryam Farhang and friends

Graz, Afro-Asiatisches Institut, October 16th – November 16th, 2023

DCP, 96 minutes
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Dedicated to Khosrow Sinai, great humanist, musician, poet and filmmaker in Teheran.
Filmed in Southern India, Teheran, Geshm, Buenos Aires, New York City, Austria

Vienna, Freies Kino im Stadtkino (Künstlerhaus), January 16th, 2024

DCP, 54 minutes
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Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

DCP, 159 minutes
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Lisbon, DocLisboa, October, 2022
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

DCP, 31 minutes
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Film by Maryam Farhang and Michael Pilz, based on recordings at Shattel-Arab and Abadan, Persian Gulf, where the first Gulf-War started in 1980.
For the exhibition Waves Come–Waves Go by Maryam Farhang at Schaumbad, Graz, February 27th–March 9, 2022

Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023
Club Hybrid, Graz, September, 2023

DCP, 101 minutes
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Dedicated to Khosrow Sinai, great humanist, musician, poet and filmmaker in Teheran.
Filmed in Southern India, Teheran, Geshm, Buenos Aires, New York City, Austria

DocLisboa, Portugal, October, 2021
Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, November 6th, 2021
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

DCP, 19 minutes
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To Karl Prantl

Gabriele Hochleitner's camera on Michael Pilz in Khosrow Sinai's – his friend's – home in Teheran, October 2007, during her shootings for the portrait of Michael Pilz For Some Friends/2008 (excerpt).

Ficunam, Ciudad de Mexico, March, 2022
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Second Edition on the occasion of two premieres at the Austrian Filmmuseum, June 26th (With Love–Volume One 1987–1996, Three Days, My Friend).
(1986, First edition, book and 82 various posters published on the occasion of the Austrian Film Days, Wels)

HDV, 533 minutes
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In memory of my friend Khosrow Sinai, Teheran. I met Khosrow in 1964 at the Vienna Academy for Fine Arts when we became good friends. He passed away in 2020. I collected some documents from the years 2006 to 2018.

DCP, 110 minutes
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Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 26 June 2021

DCP, 57 minutes
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Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, November, 2022
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

DV, 92 minutes
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Lecture, Austrian Filmmuseum Vienna, November, 2008

Video, 55 minutes
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Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, February–August 2020
Antwerp, Belgium, Fotomuseum, April to August, 2022
Herleen, NL, Schunck Museum, April to September, 2023

Video Colour, 9 minutes
Recorded in Rotterdam 1998, edited for the exhibition Nature at Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain, Paris, 2020

DCP, 102 minutes
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Rotterdam, 49st International Film Festivals, January, 2020, The Tyger Burns
Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2020
DocLisboa, Lisbon/Portugal, March, 2021
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 26 June 2021
ECRA Rio de Janeiro, July, 2021
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Editing the book Me and the Persimmon Tree with 45 paintings and poems from the Series „Home” by the Iranian artist Maryam Farhang. Bilingual German-English edition with the original Persian poems

Video, 12 minutes
Pictures by Nasrollah Kasraian
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DCP, 6 minutes
Maria, the Poet (1913), Marina Tsvetaeva
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Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023
Vienna, Freies Kino im Stadtkino (Künstlerhaus), January 16th, 2024

Film Normal-8 mm/Video, 22 minutes
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DCP, 244 minutes
Triptych closing part
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Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 3 June + 23 September, 2018
Installation, Gross St. Florian, 18 to 25 May, 2021

DCP, 205 minutes
Triptych part three
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Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 3 June + 23 September, 2018
Installation, Gross St. Florian, 18 to 25 May, 2021

DCP, 164 minutes
Triptych part two
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Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 3 June + 23 September, 2018
Installation, Gross St. Florian, 18 to 25 May, 2021

DCP, 138 minutes
Triptych part one
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Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 3 June + 23 September, 2018
Installation, Gross St. Florian, 18 to 25 May, 2021

Video, 185 minutes
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Video, 3 minutes
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Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, 5 November, 2016

Video, 59 minutes
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Dance performance by Nora Kazemi, Tehran, 22 April, 2016

Video, 232 minutes
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Vienna, Künstlerhaus, 4 September–18 October, 2015
Tehran, Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 October, 2015
Tehran, Austrian Cultural Forum, World Children's Day, 20 November, 2015

DCP, 41 minutes
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Graz, Forum Stadtpark, 30th Anniversary blimp, March 14, 2015
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Video, 112 minutes
Based on a script by and realized together with Aija Laura Zivitere, Riga
co-r, ph, s, co-e, co-p (with ALZ Pavilion Films)

Essay film in two movements about the swap of the French and the German Pavilions at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2013.

DCP, 115 minutes
r/ph/s (Hamid Hamidreza, Hanieh Vakilian, Michael Pilz, Nora Kazemi, Torang Abedian), e/p (MP)

Vienna Künstlerhauskino, 12 February, 2012
Tehran, Austrian Cultural Forum, 22 June, 2013
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Der Mann. Die Frau. Das Land. Gerald Brettschuh. Eine Rückschau.

Video, 88 minutes
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Vorau/Styria, Vinofaktur, January, 2012

Gerald Brettschuh, Landschaften.

Video, 27 minutes
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DCP, 124 minutes
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Vienna, Künstlerhauskino, 12 July, 2011
Rotterdam, 41st International Film Festivals, January, 2012
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Buenos Aires, BAFICI, April, 2012
Vienna, Künstlerhauskino, 12 February, 2013
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

DCP, 106 minutes
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Rotterdam, 40th International Film Festivals, January, 2011
Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, November, 2010
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2011
Hall/Tyrol, Galerie Sankt Barbara, 10 April, 2011
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Esfahan, Iran, 20 June, 2012
Kazachstan, Dialogue of Cultures, 2013
Tehran, Mohsen Gallery, Workshop, 6 June, 2014
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

74 minutes

Web-Edition 2/2010
Curated by Manfred Neuwirth/Medienwerkstatt Wien

DCP, 92 minutes
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Goa, 40th International Film Festival of India, November, 2009
Galerie St. Barbara, Hall in Tirol, 10 April, 2011
Vienna Künstlerhauskino, 17 May, 2011
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Vienna Künstlerhauskino, 12 February, 2013
Vienna, Museumsquartier, part of the exhibition Tod – Oder das Absolute Jetzt, June 9, 2018
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Video, 19 minutes
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Filmed on 20 January, 1988, edited on 8 January, 2009.
My dear friend Erwin died on January 2, 2003.
We often met for coffee and cigarettes. I was preparing to film Feldberg at the time and Erwin wanted to learn how to make films. One scene shows us meeting Erwin's mother Gertrude and you'll also see me playing with a handmade pistol, which Erwin's and Tatjana's son Philipp always played with when he watched crime movies on TV. As far as I know, this video is a rare document of Erwin Puls.

Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Metro Kino/Filmarchiv Austria, 22 January, 2009

Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, project space, Exhibition „Erwin Puls, Die Phantome des Begehrens“, 28 January–15 March, 2009

DCP, 52 minutes
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Marianne Fritz, born on 14th December, 1948, one of the leading austrian writers.
On 9th December 2008 I meet her voice in the house where she had lived until she died on 1st October 2007.

Premiere at Filmhaus Kino Vienna on 14th December, 2008 on the occasion of her 60th birthday.
Graz, Steirischer Herbst, Literaturhaus, 28 September–08 October, 2010
Vienna, Literarisches Quartier Alte Schmiede, 17 February, 2011, Fritzpunkt/Klaus Kastberger/Michael Pilz, Geschichte der eigenen Knochen – Einblicke in Naturgemäß III
Berlin, Literarisches Colloquium, January 13th, 2022
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Video, 67 minutes
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Stadttheater Wien, Marianne Fritz – Das Hirn wird populär! – Eine Klausur unter der Hohen Wand / Die Festung, Teil 2, Dreistetten, Lower Austria.

Video, 160 minutes (180 minutes, first version)
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The cities of Shibam and Seiyun in the Hadramout Valley, Republic of Yemen, April, 2006. Personal reflections on the music, the faces and the landscape of the Hadramout Valley, one of the oldest cultures of this world.
A film for meditation.

Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 22 November, 2008 (first version)
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2009 (second version)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 2009
Bangalore, India, Humanity Explored, online film festival, 2009, www.cultureunplugged.com
39th International Film Festival Rotterdam, January, 2010
Lisboa, doclisboa, November, 2010
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012

Video, 364 minutes
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Seiyun, Hadramout, Republic of Yemen, 17–21 April, 2006, music- and filmrecordings with the Shibam District Music & Traditional Arts Ensemble for their first music–CD, on an invitation by Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj and the Yemeni–German Shibam Urban Development Project (GTZ). Complete original recordings „for the archives“.
A film for meditation.

A film by Gabriele Hochleitner about, for and with Michael Pilz

Video, 96 minutes

Edited by Timothy McLeish
Realized and produced by Gabriele Hochleitner

Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, 6 November, 2009

16 mm, b/w, sound from 2008, 14 minutes
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Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, 6 November, 2009

Video, 64 minutes
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A film for meditation

Two lectures on „The Sensual Appeal of Emptiness“, part of a special program encompassing the presentation of Paticca Samuppada/1986, Staatz Ende/1989, Siberian Diary–Days at Apanas/2003, Indian Diary–Days at Sree Sankara/2000, Gwenyambira Simon Mashoko/2002, Cage/1992 and Windows, Dogs and Horses/2005, April 4, 2008, Graz, Austria, festival of Austrian films.

DCP (16 mm), 91 minutes
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Rotterdam, International Film Festival, January, 2008
Graz, Styria, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2008
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Zeitraumzeit, installation, 5 October–2 November, 2008
Jihlava, Czech Republik, 12th International Documentary Filmfestival, Between the Seas, October, 2008
Manila, 3rd .MOV International Digital Film Festival, October, 2008
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective Michael Pilz,
14–30 November, 2008
Bellaria, Italy, anteprimadoc, June, 2009
Uherské Hradiště (CZ), 35th Summer Film School, 26 July, 2009
Bangalore, India, Humanity Explored, online film festival, 2009, www.cultureunplugged.com
Vienna, Okto-TV, 18 and 25 April, 2010
New York City Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Film 16mm, s/w, ohne Ton
Web-Edition 2/2010

Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, November, 2008

Video, 7 minutes
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28 filmmakers working on different cinematographic haikus for a project that will also use the internet (total 38 minutes).
Project idea and design by Werner Penzel, Marion Neumann, and Jean Perret. Produced by Laboratoire Village Nomade, Estavayer-le-Lac, Suisse (www.jourparjour.net).
I produced five and I'm showing two short haiku–style films that draw on footage filmed in September 2005 around an old Venetian villa built by Andrea Palladio in Ipplis, Friuli, Italy.

Nyon, Switzerland, Visions du Réel, April, 2007
Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, 14 December, 2007
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, zeichnen, zeichnen, 21 June–11 August, 2013

16 mm, b/w, no sound, 12 minutes
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Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, 14 December, 2007

Video, 4 minutes
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Parade Linz09 im Rückblick, 8–10 December, 2009

Video, 23 minutes
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Parade Linz09 im Rückblick, 8–10 December, 2009
Linz, Dorf-TV, 16 February, 2011

Video, 96 minutes
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Film for meditation

Riga, Latvia, 17th European Documentary Film Symposium, September, 2007
Vilnius/Lithuania, November, 2007
Bangalore, India, Humanity Explored, online film festival, 2009, www.cultureunplugged.com
DocLisboa, Lisbon/Portugal, March, 2021

DCP, 40 minutes
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A film for meditation. Content follows form.

Rotterdam, International Film Festival, 27 January, 2006
Graz, Styria, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2006
Nyon, Switzerland, Visions du Réel, April, 2006
Esfahan/Iran, SUREH/Institute of Art, University of Esfahan, Islamic Center for Culture and Arts, 17 May, 2006
Jihlava, Czech Republik, 10th International Documentary Filmfestival, October, 2006
Vienna, Okto-TV, 21 January, 2007
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, April, 2008
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Bangalore, India, Humanity Explored, online film festival, 2009, www.cultureunplugged.com
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Tehran, Austrian Embassy, 7 June, 2012
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Video of two parts
Part 1 – 151 minutes
Part 2 – 142 minutes
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In September 1988, rehearsals for three late plays by Samuel Beckett were started, at George Tabori's theater Der Kreis in Vienna. Jack Garfein was the director. I accompanied his work throughout the six weeks of the project. The film shows the work on Ohio Impromptu.

Graz, Styria, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2006
Amsterdam, International Filmfestival Rotterdam
& Holland Festival, 9 June, 2006
Antwerp/Belgium, Museum of Contemportary Art, 17–19 November, 2006
Quoted in The Wild One, feature by Tessa Louise-Salome, France 2023
Berlin, Jewish Filmfestival, Hommage to Jack Garfein, June 13th–18th, 2023
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective, 10 October, 2024

Video, 22 minutes
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Waterdrops and portraits of different African and European persons for the installation NGARAVA: VANISHING CULTURES by the Zimbawean sculptor Tapfuma Gutsa, at the Manchester Art Gallery, December, 2004, the Dieleman Gallery, Belgium, March, 2005 and the October Gallery, London, March, 2006.

Video, 180 minutes
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Austrian writer Brigitte Schwaiger speaking about her life in Spain during the Franco Era and her marriage with a military commandante in the late sixties.

Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Vienna, Filmhaus am Spittelberg, 22 March, 2011
Graz, Synema/Living Catalogue, KIZ, 25 May, 2011
Vienna, Dokumentationsstelle für neue österreichische Literatur, 2011
Freistadt, Local Bühne, 10 March, 2012
Tehran, Austrian Cultural Forum, 19 June, 2013
Vienna, Admiralkino, 14 December, 2022

Video by Helmut Eisendle (r, ph, s, e, p), 23 minutes

Vienna Ottakring, Cafe International, 29 January, 2004
Graz, Literaturhaus, 28 January, 2009

Video by Helmut Eisendle (r, ph, s, e, p), 61 minutes

In 1998, I helped my friend, Austrian writer Helmut Eisendle (1939–2003), create two videos. First presentations were launched in 2004.

Vienna Ottakring, Cafe International, 29 January, 2004
Graz, Austria, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March 2005
Graz, Austria, Literaturhaus, 28 January, 2009
Leibnitz, Austria, Galerie Marenzi, 28 June, 2009

Video, 26 minutes
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Remembering with love: Austrian writer Helmut Eisendle and his wife Elisabeth Mössler.

Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, November 19, 2004
Rotterdam, International Filmfestival, January, 2005
Graz, Austria, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2005
Riga, Latvia, 16th European Documentary Film Symposium, September 2005
Graz, Austria, Literaturhaus, 28 January, 2009
Leibnitz, Austria, Galerie Marenzi, 28 June, 2009
Bangalore, India, Humanity Explored, online film festival, 2009, www.cultureunplugged.com

Video, 151 minutes
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Reflections on a special cultural exchange program between Austria and Zimbabwe: Meeting members of the Tonga people at Siachilaba/Binga and the Simonga Ngome Buntibe music ensemble.

Rotterdam, International Filmfestival, January, 2005
Mulonga.Net Festival 9/2004, Siachilaba/Zimbabwe and HMH Gallery, Linz/Austria
Zwettl/Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, 25 February, 2005
Krems, Donau-University, July, 2005
Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, VII Festival Iberoamericano de Cine de Santa Cruz, August, 2005
Thiruvananthapuram, Journeys, International Travel Film Festival Kerala, September 2005
Bangalore, India, Humanity Explored, online film festival, 2009, www.cultureunplugged.com
Linz, Dorf-TV, 16 February, 2011
Tehran, Austrian Cultural Forum, 24 August, 2014 Ebensee, Cinema Ebensee, 3 June, 2017
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective, 7 April, 2024

Video, 107 minutes
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Veni Labi performing FlowNuad, live-performance with Alex, Yogacenter Ganesha, Vienna,
24 August, 2003

DCP, 140 minutes
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Short version of Prisyadim Na Dorozhku (1995) during a journey to Central Siberia with my friend Bertien van Manen, acclaimed dutch photographer, focusing on our stay at the village Apanas.

Nyon, Switzerland, Visions du Réel, Festival International du Cinéma, International Competition, April, 2003
Jihlava, Czech Republik, 7th International Documentary Filmfestival, October, 2003
Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, South India, Journeys, International Travel Film Festival Kerala, September 2005
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, April, 2008
Bangalore, India, Humanity Explored, online film festival, 2009, www.cultureunplugged.com
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective, December 10th, 2023

Video, 31 minutes
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Stadttheater Wien, Marianne Fritz – Gräten im Fritzpunkt / Lesen, naturgemäß / Szenische Miniaturen

Video, 44 minutes
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Video, 52 minutes
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Video, 210 minutes
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Presented both as a film and an element of the installation Gwenyambira – A Tribute to Simon Mashoko, the great musician and composer of Zimbabwe, Simon Mashoko, 1917?–2007 (sound by Klaus Hollinetz, video by Michael Pilz, photography by Werner Puntigam).

Vienna, Galerie Habari, 28 February–8 April, 2002 (installation)
Bad Radkersburg, Styria/Austria, 26 June–28 July, 2002 (installation)
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Salonausstellung, 21 August–22 September, 2002 (video participation)
Linz, HMH Galerie, 28 August–29 September, 2002 (installation)
Rotterdam, International Filmfestival, <based upon> True Stories, January, 2003
Jihlava, Czech Republik, 7th International Documentary Filmfestival, October, 2003
Duisburg, Germany, Duisburger Filmwoche, November, 2003
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2004
Munich, Pasinger Fabrik, Africa in Motion, 11 November, 2004–9 January, 2005
Maputo / Fortaleza (Biennale Photo Festa Maputo 2006), 14 October–15 November, 2006 (installation)
Belgrade / Museum of African Arts, 30 November–9 December, 2006 (installation)
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, April, 2008
Sibiu, Romania, 2008
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012

Essay/Diary on Die Geschichte des filmischen Denkens in Beispielen – zusammengestellt von Peter Kubelka, opening program, Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 2 – 14 December, 1996

Video, 61 minutes (realized and produced by Christoph Hübner, Witten, Germany)

Dialog with Christoph Hübner and Gabriele Voss (May, 2000, Vienna) for 3sat-TV, 11 February, 2001
Dokumentarisch arbeiten: Im Spiegel des Fremden, published by Gabriele Voss, Verlag Vorwerk8, Berlin, ISBN 3-930916-36-3

Video, 45 minutes
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Eugen Bartmer Poems

Krems, Literaturhaus, premiere of Eugen Bartmer’s book, April, 2001
Vienna, Literaturhaus, presentation of Eugen Bartmer’s book, July, 2001

Video, 72 minutes
r (with Gabriele Hochleitner), ph (with G.H.), s (with G.H.), e (with G.H.), p Simon Field and Sandra de Hamer for the 30th International Filmfestival Rotterdam, René Goosens and Annemieke van Gorp for De Productie Rotterdam and Michael Pilz Film Vienna, concept On the Waterfront, January, 2001

Rotterdam, International Filmfestival, special program On the Waterfront, January, 2001
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2001
Bristol, Arnolfini, Port City/On the Waterfront, September, 2007

DCP, 168 minutes
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A colourful collection of enchanting encounters during my stay at an Ayurvedic hospital in a little town in Kerala, Southern India.

Rotterdam, International Film Festival, February, 2001 Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2001 Vienna, Medienwerkstatt Wien, 19 and 20 June, 2001
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, Salonausstellung, 21 August–22 September, 2002
Riga, Latvia, 16th European Documentary Film Symposium, September 2005 (fragment)
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, April, 2008
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Bangalore, India, Humanity Explored, online film festival, 2009, www.cultureunplugged.com
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March 2012
Vienna, Österreichisches Filmmuseum, Nach Indien! (on the occasion of early works of Satyajit Ray), 18 December, 2013
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective, 11 February, 2023

Radio performance with Helmut Eisendle, Radio-Play by Helmut Eisendle, aired by Austrian Ö1–radio; the voice of Mr. Tyson;
45 minutes, 26 June, 2000

Da capo al fine – What I Remember And Not What I See

Video, 103 minutes
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Karlstein-Art-Symposium 5 – 12 August, 1995
Warszawa, Poland, Austriacki Inst. Kultury, 1999
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2000

Video, 55 minutes
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Director Jack Garfein working on a play by Samuel Beckett (Ohio Impromptu), filmed in Vienna, 3 September 1988, completed eleven years later

Rotterdam, International Film Festival, January, 2000 Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 2000
Duisburg, Germany, Duisburg Filmwoche, November, 2000
Warszawa, Poland, Austriacki Inst. Kultury, 1999
Antwerp/Belgium, Museum of Contemportary Art, 17–19 November, 2006
Shahrecord/Iran, SUREH/Institute of Art, University of Esfahan, 14 October, 2007
Esfahan/Iran, SUREH/Institute of Art, University of Esfahan, 15 October, 2007
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Berlin, Jewish Filmfestival, Hommage to Jack Garfein, June 13th–18th, 2023

Video, 64 minutes
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Vienna, 14/15 April, 1999, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, in memory Ed Schulz 1942 – 1999

Video, 110 minutes
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Three days with Austrian painter Josef Schützenhöfer, who has spent the last 25 years in and around Dallastown, P.A., USA, March, 1996

Rotterdam, International Film Festival, 1999
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March 1999
Duisburg, Germany, Duisburger Filmwoche, Nov. 1999
Warszawa, Poland, Austriacki Inst. Kultury, 1999
Vienna, Universität für angewandte Kunst, 2008
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Uherské Hradiště (CZ), 35th Summer Film School, 27 July, 2009
Vienna, okto-TV, 17 June, 2012

Video, 86 minutes
co-r (Thomas Schneider), co-ph, co-s, co-e, p

Reflections on an special cultural exchange program between Austria and Zimbabwe: Meeting with members of the Tonga music ensemble Simonga during the festival Nyaminyami – The Valley Tonga Culture, in Siachilaba near Lake Kariba and in Harare, the concerts Five Reflections on Tonga Music, and during a crossing of the Austrian Alps.

For Austrian TV (ORF, 5 November, 1998) and 3sat-TV (31 October, 1999)

Video, 64 minutes
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Spontaneus meeting with artist Walter Neumayr at his home, including a presentation of his work.
Filmed on 17 January 1991 in Sankt Georgen/Gölsen and re-edited seven years later. Extended version of FÜR WALTER NEUMAYER I.

Video, 16:9, 41 minutes
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Shown at the exhibition Die Römische Spur, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, June, 1998

Video, 164 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

Three days in and around Dallastown, P.A, with Austrian imigrant and painter Josef Schuetzenhoefer and his family; long version, video installation, Schloß-Galerie Pöllau, Styria, Austria, 16 May–30 June, 1998;
presented at the exhibition America no more, Josef Schützenhöfer, Landscapes, Paintings.

Video, 242 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

In conjunction with the sound-installation Wounded Earth
by Keith Goddard and Klaus Hollinetz presented at the Osterfestival 1998 – Galerie St. Barbara, Hall, Tyrol (30 March–9 April, 1998),

special montage of the video material of the video TONGA (summer 1997);
the personal view on a cultural exchange with Zimbabwe, Africa, involving traditional African musicians and composers of Western electro-acoustic music

1997, Honorary Award for Media Art / Documentary Film, Government of Lower Austria

1996, Honorary Award for Film Art, Austrian Federal Chancellery, Department for the Arts

Facts For Fiction

Video, 69 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

A one–night ride through New York with a remarkable cab driver: Jeff Perkins, artist and a friend of mine. The original title — „What Translates Has Not Yet Arrived“ — relates to Emmanuel Levinas (1905–1995).

Rotterdam, International Film Festival, January, 1997
Duisburg, Germany, Duisburger Filmwoche, shown at the symposium Wo bleibt die Arbeit?, November, 1997
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, March, 1998
Vienna, Exercise in Reality, 18 April, 1999
Vienna, Moving Station: West, December, 2000
Planete-TV, Multithematiques, France, October 2001
Vienna, Index Edition 027, 2009
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012

About Filming and Being Filmed

Essay/diary on a Film-Students’ Symposium on Film, June 1996, Unterpertholz, Lower Austria

Being and Meaning

Essay/diary dealing with a Film-Students’ Symposium on Film (May 1995, Salzburg, Austria) and the film Irgendwo hätt’ ich sonst hingewollt (1995).

Tolerance – Intolerance

Video, 151 minutes
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

Participation in the exhibition of Visual Art for Children and Young People, Horn, Lower Austria, 23 September – 8 October, 1995. Using material concerning with the Karlstein Symposium 1994 and 1995.

Notes On The Cinematography
Of Laila Pakalnina

Essay in conjunction with two short films by Laila Pakalnina, Riga, Latvia (Vela, 1991 and Pramis, 1993); published by Oscars, cinema journal, 4–5/1995, Riga, Latvia

Video, 57 minutes, color
r, ph, s, e, p

Dance performance Mahabharata by Radha Anjali, choreography by Adjar K. Lkaksman, Vienna, Theater des Augenblicks, 24 + 26 March, 1995

Video, 115 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

Dance performance Oiwei super, choreography by Christine Gaigg, Künstlerhaus Vienna, 2 and 3 October, 1995

Video, 2x180 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

German and Spanish version.
The German version was finalized in 2004: 28 April 1995 Aus Liebe / For Love

I’d like to have gone somewhere else

16mm, 51 minutes, color, silent
co-sc, co-r, co-ph, co-e co-p

Cinematic experiment realized by Jean-Christopher Burger, Andreas Fröba, Margarethe Fuchs, Bernd Hartung, Gabriele Hochleitner, Regina Höllbacher, Vanessa van Houten, Mathilde Kohl and Michael Pilz
the result of a Film–Students' Symposium on Film, May, 1995, Salzburg in the Alps, Austria.

Salzburg, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, December, 1995 New York, N.Y., Anthology Film Archives, March 1996 Ramsau am Dachstein/Austria, Festival Die Eroberung der Landschaft – Berge im Film, 4 September, 2001

Video, 34 minutes
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

Let‘s Sit Down Before We Leave

Video, First montage, 627 minutes
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

In the winter of 1994, I traveled to Central Siberia with my friend Bertien van Manen, acclaimed dutch photographer

Salzburg, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, 1995
Rotterdam, International Film Festival, 1996
Riga, Latvia, Arsenal, International Film Festival, 1996
Paris, Institut Néerlandais, November, 1997 – January, 1998, part of the exhibition Bertien van Manen, photographies 1977–1997
Montréal, Canada, October, 1999, shown at the exhibition Bertien van Manen, photographies 1977–1997
Vienna, Afro Asiatisches Institut Galerie, 3 – 31 May, 2000, shown at the exhibition Vor und hinter dem Ural

Parts of this work have been incorporated into a Dutch TV film by Cees van Ede, NPS, „Bertien van Manen, fotograaf“, which was broadcast on November 4, 1996.

Sibirian Diary

Notes on the journey to Central Siberia, February – March 1994 (Prisyadim na dorozhku, 1994/95)

Video, work in progress, since Bernhard Frankfurter died in January 2000 approx. 300 minutes of original recordings are lost.
From our first meeting with M. Schütte-Lihotzky on March 24, 1994, approx. 33 minutes still exist.
ph, s, co-r (Bernhard Frankfurter), p

Video, 210 minutes (montage in camera)
r, ph, s, e, p

Cultural performance Kultur am Damm, 22-23 March, 1994, Wien-Donaustadt

Video, 121 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

A personal way of looking at some more or less private moments that occurred over the recent years

Rotterdam, International Film Festival 1994 – Home Movie Master
Salzburg, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, 1995

Installation Vienna Festival, 15 May – 20 June, part of the project Drehmomente and einsiedeln – ein zustand, composed of the video Il faut apprendre à voir and historic documents of the conference of the European Federation of Audiovisual Filmmakers, 1988, Delphi, Greece, reflections on cultural manipulation through mass media (Delphi Declaration).

We Need To Learn How To See

Video, 136 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

Personal impressions of the historic meeting of the European Federation of Audiovisual Filmmakers on the occasion of the European Cinema and Television Year, reflections on cultural manipulation through mass media (Delphi Declaration) at Delphi, Greece
Part of the installation Delphi Declaration, Vienna Festival, Vienna, 15 May – 20 June, 1993

Video, 89 minutes (montage in camera)
r, ph, s, e, p

In August, 1992 Sebastian Prantl, Cecilia Li, and Michael Pilz met for a four-week international symposium on dance, music, and film based among others on reflections of John Cage and Chuang Tzu.

Salzburg, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, 1993
Frankfurt a.M., Alte Oper, Screen Dance, 1993
Vienna, Video edition Austria 1993 (documentaries)
Riga, Latvia, Arsenal, International Film Festival 1994
Premiere-TV, Germany, autumn 2003

Video, 140 minutes
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

Long version of State Of Grace

Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film, April, 2008
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

Installation for 5 Videomonitors, 5 x 5 hours of simultaneously performed video; concerning For The Birds – Event for Dance, Music and Film by Sebastian Prantl, Cecilia Li and Michael Pilz; Vienna, Secession, 4 November, 1992, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

For The Birds

Video, 71 minutes
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

short version of State Of Grace (1991/93)

Video, 120 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

Stadtwerkstatt Linz meets Ars Electronica and 3sat-TV live, 11 September, 1991

Although I Speak Another Language
We Have Always Managed To Understood Each Other

Video, 101 minutes
co-sc, co-r (Walter Stach), ph, co-e, p

Portrait of a cultural scene personality (Dieter Schrage) and the transifications between cultural and political and facts.

Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1992
Vienna, Kleine Galerie, Hommage à Dieter Schrage, June, 2012

Video, 153 minutes
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

On April 11, 1991, I met my Zurich friends Walter Marti and Reni Mertens, along with their cameraman Urs Thoenen, at the site of the Nazi concentration camp Mauthausen. They were working on their feature film Requiem.

Video, editing not completed
r, ph, s, e, p

On February 6 and 7, 1992, I met Josef Fabich, wine grower in Unterwaitzendorf, Lower Austria. Together with my painter-friend Andi Ortag, I watched Josef working at his distillery.

Video, editing not completed
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

On November 28, 1991, my friend Andi Ortag was working on some paintings at his Vienna studio, which he gave up a couple of days later. While he went on painting, I took out my small video camera. It turned into a long and wonderful night.

35 mm, 90 minutes, lost
co-r (Michael Niedermair), co-ph, co-e, p

Found footage „trash-movie” in the course of the Stadtfilmer-project in Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria (1989–1992); first screening of the first version on 5 May, 1991, Forum Kino, Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria, with live music Fresh Freddie

Video, 28 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

Spontaneus meeting with artist Walter Neumayr at his home, including a presentation of his work.
In the context with the Stadtfilmer-project in Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria (1989/92)

Video, 53 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

Personal perspective on the guided press tour of the newly opened Sports School of the Province of Lower Austria (Austrian architect Wolfgang Mistelbauer)
In the context with the Stadtfilmer-project in Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria (1989/92)

Video, 182 minutes
r, ph, s, e, p

Dance performance Klangräume (Vienna Museum of Modern Art, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Sezession)

Dialogue (with Peter Zach) about the Stadtfilmer-project in Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria,
published by blimp, Graz, Austria, No. 14, Summer, 1990

35 mm, color, DOLBY-stereo,1:1,85, 115 minutes
sc, r, co-e, p, (ph Peter Schreiner)

Fiction; in the landscape of Feldberg/Lower Austria there is a non–verbal confrontation between a man and a woman that is both mysterious and transparent, since both actors are not simply playing their roles but seem to be conquering the mountain (G.Z.)

Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1990
Vienna, Viennale, International Film Festival, 1991
Rotterdam, International Film Festival, 1991
Athens, USA, Athens Film Festiva,l 1991
Figueira da Foz, Portugal, Festival Internacional
du Cinéma, 1991
San Jose, California, Cinequest Film Festival, 1991
Riga, Latvia, Arsenal, International Film Festival, 1992
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Tehran, Austrian Cultural Forum, 23 June, 2013
Vienna, Filmarchiv Austria, Metrokino, December, 2022
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Essay on a performance by Erwin Puls, Linz, Austria, 1979, published in Über Puls, by Herbstpresse, Vienna, 1989

My Friend Erwin Puls set up his installation „Deduktionsmaschine“ („Deduction Machine“, 7 x 5 x 6 meters) in a Baroque-style room at Vienna's Museum of Modern Art (Palais Liechtenstein) on March 10, 1989.
I took 144 photographic stills of the mounting and dismantling work, much as I would a film. Published in Über Puls, by Herbstpresse, Vienna, 1989.

Notes on a film project (Feldberg 1987/90),
published by the Cultural Department of the Government of Lower Austria (Katalog des niederösterreichischen Landesmuseums, Neue Folge Nr. 245, Vienna 1989)

Super 8/35 mm blowup, color, 4 minutes
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

Reflections on a telephone conversation and the news that friend and filmmaker Manfred Kaufmann has committed suicide

Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1989
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, 1998 – In memoriam Reinhard Pyrker
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, April, 2008
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023

Eighty Centimeters Five Tons

16 mm, color, 107 minutes
sc, r, ph, e, p

The result of a three year dialogue with Austrian sculptor Karl Prantl, between sculpture and film and about creativity, intuition, and resistance, or about love, nature, and death

Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1989
Nyon, Switzerland, Festival International du Cinéma, 1989
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 4 December, 1989
Riga, Latvia, Arsenal, International Film Festival, 1994
Dortmund, Fachhochschule, 1996
Washington, Österreichische Botschaft, March, 1996

Watercourse Way

16 mm film and video VHS, print on video 1'', color, 44 minutes
sc, r, ph, e, p

Personal reflections of meetings with Austrian sculptor Karl Prantl

TV (SWF Südwestfunk Baden-Baden, Germany, 31 July, 1988)
Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1988
3sat-TV (Germany/Switzerland/Austria) 11 February, 2001
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

The Art of Travelling

Happening at the Blau-Gelbe-Galerie, Vienna, 4 May, 1988, presented at the symposion Fiction and Reality

„Zur Wahrnehmung von Wirklichkeit – zur Wirklichkeit von Wahrnehmung” published by blimp, Graz, Austria, No. 6, Spring, 1987

16mm, color, 5x5 minutes
sc, r, ph, e, p

Produced in Hinterbichl, Eastern Tyrol, for Bayerisches Fernsehen Munich

Park of Remembrance

16 mm, color, 14 minutes
sc, r, ph, e, p

An evening at the Parco delle Rimembranze, Venice, following the film Paticca–Samuppada 1986

Rotterdam, International Film Festival, 1988
Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1988
Triest, AlpeAdriaCinema, November 1989
Riga, Latvia, Arsenal, International Film Festival, 1994
Vienna, Cross Over, Avantgarde and Documentary Film,
3 March, 1997
Zwettl, blaugelbe Galerie, Die lange Nacht des Films,
14 November, 2003
Vienna, Dramatisches Zentrum, Projekt Angeschlossen-Ausgeschlossen, 24 April, 1988
Graz, Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Films, April, 2008
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Vienna, Index Edition 027, 2009
New York City, Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012

Not a Film – Patchwork. Dziga Vertov

Book and 82 various posters published on the occasion of the Austrian Film Days, Wels, 1986

16/35 mm blowup, color, 16 minutes
sc, r, ph, e, p

A sunday morning on a downtown Salzburg square, meditating on the old indian Maha Nidana Suttanta: all dhamma (physical and mental phenomena) are paticcasa muppamma (happen by the way of cause). Present life is the result, the creature, the evolute of preceding conditions.

Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1986
Riga, Latvia, Arsenal, International Film Festival, 1994
Graz, Austria, Festival of Austrian Film, 2008

DCP (film 16mm), 108 minutes
sc, d, e, p

Coproduction with Balacz Bela Studio/Mafilm, Budapest, for ZDF-TV, Germany

„Film is the art of dreams. In a rudimentary narrative layer this fiction film applies the dramatics of the uncertain. It interweaves two fragmentary stories. One never tires of watching“ (Karsten Visarius)

German Television (ZDF), 21 January, 1986
Rotterdam, International Film Festival, 1986
Berlin Filmfestival (market), 1986
Vienna, Viennale, International Film Festival, 1986
Figueira da Foz, Portugal, Festival Internacional du Cinéma, 1986
Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1986
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective, September 24th, 2023

Video, color, 84 minutes
co-sc (Bernhard Frankfurter), r, ph, e, co-s, p

Personal view on the Austrian Film Days, Wels, 1984

As a certain part of this project the Austrian photographer Lillian Birnbaum realized 1.000 photographic polaroid portraits of people who attended the film festival. These portraits were exhibited in a special installation during the festival days.

Wels, Austrian Film Days, 1984

Heaven and Earth

DCP (16/35 mm blowup), color and b&w, 297 minutes
sc, r, co-s, ph, e, p

Part 1: The Order Of Things (142 minutes)
Part 2: The Course Of Things (155 minutes)

„The best Austrian documentary film after the war“ (Franz Manola, Die Presse, Vienna, 1984)

Kapfenberg, Austrian Film Days, 1982
Nyon, Switzerland, Festival International du Cinéma, 1982 (Prix de Jury Oecumenique)
Aurillac, France, Rencontres Cinéma et Monde Rural, 1982
Vienna, Viennale, International Film Festival, 1982
Rotterdam, International Film Festival, 1983
Berlin, 41th International Forum of Young Film, 1983
Figueira da Foz, Portugal, Festival Internacional du Cinéma 1983 (Grand Prix for Best Documentary)
Montréal, Canada, Festival International du Nouveau Cinéma, 1983
Paris, Sémaine du Cinéma Autrichien, Cinémathèque Française, November, 1983
Edinburgh, International Film Festival, 1984
German Television, special version in 3 parts (NDR/Hamburg, RB/Bremen, SFB/Berlin, WDR/Cologne, HR/Frankfurt a.M.), 20/27 July and 3 August, 1985
Austrian Television, special version in 3 parts, 2/3/16 October, 1985
Triest, Italy, Festival Alpe-Adria, December, 1987
Graz, Styria, Film Land Steiermark, Festival of Styrian films, June, 1988
San Jose, California, Cinequest Film Festival, 1991
Vienna, Films Trespassing, International Documentary Film Festival, October 1991
Vienna, Graz, Salzburg, Innsbruck, Linz, part of the retrospective Landvermessung, 20 Years of Austrian Film, autumn 1991 until spring, 1992
Riga, Latvia, Arsenal, International Film Festival 1994
Vienna, Exercise in Reality, December, 1996
St. Pölten, Austria, part of the exhibition Über die Berge, 1 March – 30 August, 1998
3sat-TV (Germany/Switzerland/Austria) 18 and 23 February, 2001
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Vienna, Filmarchiv Austria, April, 2008
Basel/Schweiz, Stadtkino Basel, 17+28 June, 2009
35th Summer Film School Uherské Hradiště (CZ), 27 July, 2009
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 26 September, 2010
Berlin, International Forum of Young Film, 10–20 February, 2011
Zwettl, Balugelbe Galerie, 17 June, 2011
Vancouver, VIFF, October, 2011
New York City Anthology Film Archives, Retrospective MP, March, 2012
Rotterdam, Worm, 23 October, 2013
dctv, Channel 25, Public Access Corporation of the District of Columbia, USA
Berlin, Ausland, 21 October, 2016
Sheffield Doc/Fest July, 2020
Doc Alliance Film online 2020/2021
Filmland Steiermark, Haus der Geschichte, 2021
Vienna, Filmarchiv Austria, Metrokino, November, 2022
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, Retrospective May 25th – June 28th, 2023
Vienna, Metro-Kinokulturhaus, October 11th, 2023

16 mm, color, 21 minutes
sc, r, e

Promotion film for Sandvic Steel Industries, Sweden

Country Movie Houses

16 mm, color, 14 minutes
sc, r, co-e

Austrian TV (ORF)

School And Authority

16 mm, color, 21 minutes
co-sc (Beate Kögel), r, co-e

Austrian TV (ORF)

16 mm, b/w, 7 minutes
sc, r, co-e

Austrian TV (ORF), 11 July, 1978

Video, color, 120 minutes, lost
co-sc (Bernhard Frankfurter), co-r, ph, co-s, e, p

Two year’s of regular video takes of street life in Vienna's 14th (Penzing) district

16 mm, color, 45 minutes
co-sc (Beate Kögel), r, co-e

Austrian TV (ORF, 9 December, 1977, TV-version 26 minutes)

Portrait of an elder lady, mother of Austrian film director Herbert Vesely

Vienna, ORF3: Film. Fernsehen. Österreich —
Filmarchiv Austria/Metrokino, 3 and 23 November, 2005
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

16 mm, color, 8 minutes
co-sc (Beate Kögel), r, co-e

Austrian TV (ORF, 27 April, 1977)

Unusual interview on the occasion of his concert in Vienna . Highly personal, funny and rambling.

Austrian TV (ORF, 27 April, 1977)

Shown at the exhibition haus.O – Metal Machine Music, The Amine b Ring, An Electronic Instrumental composition, curated by Fareed Armaly, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany, 21 May–11 June, 1999
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 1 March, 2013

16 mm, color, 45 minutes
sc, r, co-e

Rare portrait of a peasant's life in Austria’s Waldviertel region

Austrian TV (ORF, 17 May, 1977)
Vienna, Exercise in Reality, 15 May, 1996

Vienna, ORF3: Film. Fernsehen. Österreich —
Filmarchiv Austria/Metrokino, 8 and 28 November, 2005
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Graz, Diagonale, Austrian Filmmuseum: Ein anderes Land. Fünf österreichische Filmgeschichten 22 March, 2014
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 17 December, 2014

Slow Summer

Super-8/35 mm blowup, print b&w, 84 minutes
co-sc, co-d, co-ph, p

Realization by John Cook (in cooperation with Michael Pilz, Susanne Schett, Helmut Boselmann, a.o.)

„The canadian filmmaker has produced some of the best Austrian films“ (Michael Omasta); a very private view on some friends and their relations in a tome of disquiet between different stays of life.

Cannes, Festival de Cannes, 1976 (special screening)
Carthage, Festival de Carthage, 1976
1st Austrian filmdays, Velden, 29 September–2 October 1977
Vienna, Viennale, International Film Festival, 1977
Düsseldorf, filmforum, 3. Filmwerkschau, 22 January, 1978
Vienna, Graz, Linz, Innsbruck, Sturmjahre – Windstille, 18 programs of Austrian films since 1945, September/October 1997
Vienna, Viennale, International Film Festival 2001,
special screening in memory of John Cook 1935-2001
Kapfenberg, Salzburg, Wels, Diagonale on Tour, November 2004
Kassel, Documenta 12, Bali Kino, 2007
Toronto, York University, Visibility and Performativity, September, 2007
Berlin, Forum des Jungen Films, February, 2009
Munich, Filmfestival Underdox, 26 March, 2009
Basel, Switzerland, Stadtkino, 12-14-20 June, 2009
Vienna, Kino unter Sternen, July, 2009
35th Summer Film School Uherské Hradiště (CZ), 26 July, 2009
Rotterdam, Worm, 11 November, 2009
Vienna, Votivkino, Wien im Film, Dec. 25, 2009–Jan. 7, 2010
Ljubljana, Slovenska Kinoteka, October, 2011
Cinématèque de Toulouse, Austrian Filmmuseum, Utopias of film (some fragements), spring 2014
Graz, Diagonale, March 2017
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, 12 December, 2017

16 mm, 3 minutes
r, co-e (Herbert Baumgartner)

Found footage filmed by russian soldiers 1945 in Vienna. On the soundtrack The flat foot floogee with a floy floy, 1938, by Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers. Is also part in Das Lied vom Hofer/1972.

Looking back at 1975

16 mm, 5 minutes
r, co-e (Herbert Baumgartner)

An experiment in search of new forms of entertainment conducted for Austrian Broadcaster ORF. It was produced as part of Der Magazyniker, No. 2 (45 minutes, finished December 5, 1975). It consists of an ironic collage of political highlights taken from 16 mm newsreel material covering the year 1975.

Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

2-inch video, color, 29 minutes
co-sc (Ed Schulz), d, co-e

Austrian TV (ORF, Impulse No. 6, 22 March, 1973)

Older circus artists and rare circus acts staged at a historic Viennese palace, to the music of Django Reinhardt

Austrian TV (ORF, Impulse No. 6, 22 March, 1973)
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

2-inch video, b&w, 25 minutes
Austrian TV (ORF, Impulse No. 2, 17 February, 1973)
co-sc (Gert Winkler), d, co-e, co-d (Rainer C. Ecke)

Absurd fiction based on the famous song Das Lied vom Hofa by Austrian songwriter Wolfgang Ambros

16 mm, color, TV, unfinished, lost
Austrian TV (ORF)
sc, r

Amateur boxing champion

16 mm, color, 6 minutes
sc, r, e, p

Promotion film for my friends Prix and Swiczinsky, young architects of Coop Himmelblau, demonstrating Villa Rosa, 1968

16 mm, color, 23 minutes
co-sc (Gert Winkler), d, e, p, (ph Walter Kindler)

Mysterious fiction starring Lui Dimanche, Yunko lkewanda, Erwin Puls, a.o.

Vienna, Viennale, International Film Festival, 1971
Venice, Biennale di Venezia, 1972
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

Single 8 mm (Fuji), no sound, 10 minutes
r, ph, p
26 June, 1971, Volksstimme-Fest, Jesuitenwiese, Prater, Vienna
Festival Old and New Masters of Super-8, Vienna 15–18 November, 1996 / Berlin 22 November, 1996 / New York City, Film Anthology Archives, 13–15 December, 1996
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

16 mm, b&w, 25 minutes
co-sc, co-d (Coop Himmelblau), e

Austrian TV (ORF, 6 May 1970), missing (parts were used for a new film on Coop Himmelblau by Austrian TV/ORF 6 June, 1995)

Single 8 mm (Fuji), no sound, 3 minutes
r, ph, p

Festival Old and New Masters of Super-8, Vienna 15–18 November, 1996 / Berlin 22 November, 1996 / New York City, Film Anthology Archives, 13–15 December, 1996

16 mm, b/w, no sound, 3 minutes
co-r (Gert Winkler, Lui Dimanche), ph, p

16 mm, b/w, 6 minutes, no sound
co-r (Gert Winkler, Werner Jascha), ph, p

16 mm, b&w, 6 minutes
co-sc, co-d (Gert Winkler), ph, p

Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

R 8 mm, color and b&w, no sound, approx. 240 minutes, lost
r, ph,
Various subjects and expressions, filmed spontaneously, edited with camera on the set

16mm, b/w, no sound, 4 minutes
r, ph, e, p

Land-art by Walter Pichler & live happening at Breitenbrunn, Burgenland, Austria

Zwettl, Lower Austria, Blaugelbe Galerie, Die Lange Nacht des Films, December 14, 2007
Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008

r, ph, p
Filmed with Super-8mm for my friend the painter Hubert Pfaffenbichler on June 22nd and 23rd, 1968 at a Viennese butcher shop in Starhemberggasse and at the shop for elegant shoes, ZAK in Kärntnerstrasse, where he had arranged two exhibitions with his expressive works. I gave all the material to Hubert.

16 mm, b&w, 13 minutes
co-sc, co-d (Gert Winkler), ph, e, s, p

Zero budget fiction
Part of the film OHNE PAUSE by Erwin Puls, Austria/1986, 60 minutes

First screening Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien/project space, exhibition DIE PHANTOME DES BEGEHRENS (January 28 - March 29, 2009), Metro Kino/Filmarchiv Austria, 22 January, 2009, with an introduction by Dieter Schrage. "OHNE PAUSE is a compilation film. Here, Erwin Puls works with porn footage from the interwar period (beginning in about 1925) and from the post-war era, combining it with amateur recordings as well as unused film material about a car ride shot by Austrian director Michael Pilz. An art-philosophy text runs below the images." (Filmarchiv Austria)

16 mm, b&w, unfinished, lost
sc, r, ph, s, e, p

Sculptor's symposium at Sankt Margarethen, Burgenland, Austria

16mm, colour, no sound, 11 minutes
r, ph, p

16 mm, b/w, no sound, 14 minutes
sc, r, ph, e, p

16 mm, b/w, no sound, 12 minutes
sc, r, ph, e, p

16 mm, b/w, no sound, 11 minutes
sc, r, ph, e, p

Vienna, Austrian Filmmuseum, retrospective, 14–30 November, 2008
Vienna, Künstlerhaus, zeichnen, zeichnen, 21 June–11 August, 2013

Normal-8mm, b/w, no sound
sc, r, ph, e, p

(This became the film ALL BLUES in 2017)