Maria Lassnig Movies

A conciliatory review of the life of the author using the techniques of animated film. In 1972, Selfportrait received the award of the New York State...

Shot in New York in the mid-1970s, Maria Lassnig's Alice is an unconventional portrait of the titular woman, with footage of her body accented by...

Rough cut by Maria Lassnig. Color correction and final cut completed posthumously by Mara Mattuschka and Hans Werner Poschauko in accordance with...

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1974.

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1970.

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1974.

A slender chair works out while a cushioned one strains. Hand-drawn comedy with early cinema motifs. A woman arrives and sits, finding a perfect fit.

The tone is lyrical, the voices are real, the bodies are sketchy: A couple talks at the phone and in bed (a casanova and his victim). "You helped me,...

A short film by Maria Lassnig, shot in 1973.

Women's bodies are presented as ambiguous erotic landscapes, sometimes classically baroque, sometimes cubistic visions in a distorted reflection,...