Friedl vom Gröller Movies

Four young women present themselves seductively, self confidently and with some signs of shame. The camera´s low angle creates – in spite...

The setting of the film was simple and straightforward: the now 77-year-old Friedl vom Gröller asks a (homosexual) escort to do a nude film...

A wink to the reaper that awaits us all, smile on the lips.

In Maya Deren’s AT LAND, each vision of a foot hitting the ground took us into a new space via the magic of montage. DAS RAD works a similar...

Although this film does not follow the genre of the city portrait in any way whatsoever, it nonetheless presents a documentation of the...

Friedl vom Gröller invites a stranger to his small apartment in Paris and records his reactions to an unexpected striptease.

A young man spitting cherry pits, with an off-screen accomplice, attempts to hit the camera´s lens with one of them. Various moods become...

Pavia, Lombardy, April 2025. Friedl vom Gröller unpacks her 16mm camera and films: first a wall, then the pattern of a shirt, then a clothing...

What goes missing in a time when mouths are covered by masks? At the beginning you see a set of replacement teeth. This still life opens the film,...

A silent, black and white film portrait of two children set against the eponymous Swiss river, Ticino takes its cue from Franz West's famous...

Friedl vom Gröller´s Rust starts by gazing into the strained face of the saint. The artist herself reads "Holzschnitt", or woodcut, rather...

A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the...

Portrait of the artist’s mother as an old woman. A farewell vignette, a final sketch from her nursing home, silent, aloof, clumsy, metallic...

Playing a part or stepping outside it. Lisa, who looks like Friedl vom Gröller´s sister, practises looking into the camera. She adjusts...

May 2012 is composed of three visual elements. In the momentary opening shot the camera spies on riverside joggers from the Donaumarina U-Bahn...

The lovesick Jelena spends her afternoons strolling among the tombs and leafless trees at Père-Lachaise cemetery. As she sings...

Wedding is a meta-amateur film, a reflection and a condensation of its form: black and white, silent, 16mm, and only two minutes long. A married...

Friedl vom Gröller invites a stranger to his small apartment in Paris and records his reactions to an unexpected striptease.

Five older women, loosely grouped in two rows, gaze into the camera. At times only details of their faces can be seen, a sixth woman walks through...

A day inside the charming hair salon of Veronique Gizard, on the corner of Rue de Bagnolet and Rue Planchat in Paris’s 20th arrondissement....