What does modern art mean to normal museumgoers? Ulrich Seidl invites visitors and experts to talk about modern art, to discuss and reflect; their dreams, visions and fears eventually lead them to touch on sexuality and death. While researching Pictures at an Exhibition, important protagonists for later Seidl films were discovered, such as Erich Finsches (Dog Days) or René Rupnik (The Bosom Friend, PARADISE: Faith). As well, this was Seidl's first collaboration with Veronika Franz, who later became his co-scriptwriter and artistic collaborator.
Austria 1996 | 45 min | German | Beta SP
Director: Ulrich Seidl | Producer: Erich Lackner | Screenplay: Ulrich Seidl | Camera: Peter Zeitlinger | Editor: Walter Andreas Christen | Sound: Ekkehart Baumung | Research and Assistant director: Veronika Franz | Unit manager: Louis Oellerer | Production manager: Max Linder | Cast: Erich R. Finsches, Marie Kern, M.C. Kreindl, Hubert Fabian Kulterer, Barbara Paukner, Peter Reiser, René Rupnik
Production company: LOTUS FILM GmbH | Mollardgasse 85a, Stiege 1 | 1060 Vienna, Austria
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A Lotus Film production commissioned by the ORF (Film/Fernseh-Abkommen) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln
"With Pictures at an Exhibition I wanted to examine the importance of art in daily life. I wanted to see what a work of art, a painting, elicits in different people, and how it can lead them to reflect on themselves and talk about their lives, their own feelings and obsessions." - Ulrich Seidl
Awards
Austrian Educational Prize
Festivals
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Filmstills: 15x10cm / 300dpi / jpg / ca. 500kb
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