Friedl vom Gröller Movies

Dedicated to the Paris Poetry Circle, this film captures the filmmaker's yearning for and unbridled interest in the human face. Poems are recited,...

The theme of this short film is the relationship between psychoanalyst and client. Vom Gröll plays the analyst, a role she knows from real life....

A tiny picaresque set in Paris chronicling Kubelka’s coy encounter with an unnamed man.

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

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

Winter in Paris begins with a still-life of a window sill and beautifully detours to a gruesome-erotic allegory of death.

Photo session is a film about a pair. A human pair: man and woman, no longer young but when they laugh together they´re as exuberant as...

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...

Filmed photo portraits Erwin, Toni, Ilse, is one of Friedl Kubelka’s first films. Influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and Existentialism, it was...

A pan on a dilapidated square, doubled with an another pan showing a series of portraits of local men staring into the camera lens.

Friedl vom Gröller's Poetry for Sale is a portrait of a young man peddling verse on the Paris metro. Reinforcing the antiquated nature of his...

A bowl on the ground. The fallen leaves around it reference autumn. A letter enters the frame—aged hands tear it up, and its pieces fall into...

A publication offering a selective retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Friedl Kubelka – known as a filmmaker under the name...

16mm short film

16mm short film

An experimental film.

The film by photographer and filmmaker Friedl vom Gröller is the short portrait of a woman full of secrets. The viewer can observe her but is...

A film like a punch in the stomach. Blind photographer Evgen Bavčar examines the bodies of four women. The women's expressions and gestures...

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