Norbert Pfaffenbichler

A man rescues a boy and later tries to get him off his back but to little avail, so they end up drifting around a subterranean world, populated by ...

01 de jun. de 2021

Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never beheld a f...

01 de jan. de 2013

Sometime, hopefully not too soon, in a place wherever but not here, all life will have moved underground after a failed uprising. Everybody wears a...

25 de jan. de 2023

01 de jul. de 2002

The work is based on the idea of making a video with a minimum number of parameters. A uniform white grid on a blue background structures the pictu...

01 de jan. de 2006

In this experimental film, British actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969) embodies over 170 characters, experiencing a schizophrenic horror trip in which ...

14 de ago. de 2013

In our vision of the future, everyone has received a neuronal interface, also called a brainchip. This chip enables direct mental interaction with ...

01 de jan. de 1997

The latest film in Norbert Pfaffenbichler's 2551 film series.

02 de fev. de 2025

What looks like a beefy sea cucumber sunk in a toaster without casing is actually a computer-controlled organ of speech. From a YouTube clip of the...

01 de jan. de 2019

A furious scene, virtuously reassembled, continuously intensifying, yet never moving. A brief excerpt from Charlie Chaplin’s 'The Floorwalker' (191...

11 de jun. de 2012

A “test run” for Pfaffenbichler's hitherto unsuccessful attempt to adapt Oedipus. The film is occupied exclusively with blind people, whose faces a...

01 de jan. de 2010

Norbert Pfaffenbichler pieces together clips from 160 James Mason films to examine the eternally urbane star's career.

01 de jan. de 2018

The experimental short negotiates the conventions of the invisible camera. In a bare room without windows or doors, someone puts up a futile agains...

01 de jan. de 2015

Isolated from the rest of the action, this time the pram from Eisenstein’s Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin really crashes to the bottom.

19 de out. de 2014

In this grotesque found-footage-film, close-ups of actors playing Adolf Hitler in movies created between 1940 and today are combined in shot/counte...

14 de jul. de 2011

For the artist Fernand Leger (1881-1955), the promise of film as a new art form lay in its potential to exhibit the visual, to present an image rat...

01 de jan. de 2007

What is the human body able to sustain when subjected to devices that record sounds and images? And what can be done with the human body when it te...

01 de jan. de 2003

This experiment on the theme of difference and repetition combines methods used in structural films and elements of narrative cinema. The content w...

01 de jan. de 2006

36 refers to both aesthetic traditions of abstract painting and the structural approaches of early geometric films (such as those of Walther Ruttma...

14 de ago. de 2001