Broken Time / Experimentalfilm / 16 mm blow up to 35 mm / 2011 / 1:00 min
Like Jeanne d'Arc in front of the scaffold, clueless. Finally, a fight, they come
to get her, the redeeming handshake. Out of the hands, on the hands, that’s
how you can read broken time: because something is eliminated, combed,
scratched and lovely caressed. Perhaps the velvet glove is the connecting
through time. For an alliance it´s taken off. Something is sealed: memory
and dream play off against each other, the best fighter will be adopted. And
ultimately it burns to ashes, the famous story, it was all a dream. Maybe she
was the boy that she kissed, at least she resembles him. The image section
and traces on the material are covering the secret. Serious men come up to
exterminate her. "Deform Your Dreams" as the only liberation.
Jury Statement - Backup Filmfestival Weimar 2012:
„The best experimental film is „Broken time“, directed by Johannes Gierlinger. We
like the nostalgic approach to the avandgarde. This means the dialogic inside the
cinematographic lanuage. The director works in 4 physical ways with sound and images.“
Cinema Next:
„DEFORM YOUR DREAMS“ ist auf einem Filmkader in Broken Time zu lesen. Die Deformation der
Träume geht einher mit der Derformation der Filmspur. Es verschmelzen und verzerren Bilder,
Erinnerungen, Geschichten – und letztlich die Zeit: broken time.
Alanna Simone curator of MIA Screenings at The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
Broken Time (2011) from Austrian artist Johannes Gierlinger riffs on the cut up films of the Beats
mixing dismembered pieces of footage with text and manipulated celluloid.
57th Cork Film Festival 2012 (Free Radical Section), Irland
14th Backup Filmfestival Weimar ( Award for Best Experimentalfilm) 2012, Germany
The 17th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival 2013, Korea
13th Melbourne International Animation Festival 2013, Australia
European Short Film Festival (Official Selection) 2013, USA
5to.FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE VIDEOARTE DE CAMAGUEY 2013 , CUBA
Experiments in Cinema v8.53 Festival 2013, USA
9th Flex - The Florida Experimental Film and Video Festival 2013, USA
MIA Screening - Same Ocean - at the The Armory Center for the Arts - curated by Alanna Simone 2013, USA
Exhibited at the Kunsthalle Vienna - Early birds Show 2013, Austria
12th Festival International Du Court Métragel Lille (Nouvelle Images Competition) 2012, France
16th International Video Festival Videomedeja Novi Sad 2012, Serbia
7th Streaming Festival - Audio-Visuell Art Festival 2012
FESA Festival of European Student Animation 2012, Serbia
11th Short Film Festival Silhouette - Courts métrages 2012, France
13th Dresdner Schmalfilmtage (Official Selection) 2012, Germany
Flexiff - Experimental International Filmfestival 2012 (Official Selection), Australia
3rd 6010 Film&Videofestival 2012, Germany
3rd West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival 2012, USA
Supporting Film in May at DAS KINO - Cinema Next 2012, Austria
Medienfestival Leibnzihaus Tübingen - Plattform #10 2012, Germany
Budapest Short Film Festival 2012 - LifeAd Competition 2012, Hungary
Shortfilmfestival Innsbruck - Los Gurkos 2012, Austria
Exhibited at the Kunstverein Salzburg - Cafe Cult #53 - 2012, Austria
Analog Film Night - The Steakhouse - Soho Ottakring 2012, Austria
8th International Short Filmfestival Detmold 2012, Germany
Peng - Festival junger Künste Jena 2012, Germany
9th Filmfestival One Minute Aarau 2012, Switzerland
Lange Nacht des Films Galerie Blaugelbzwettl 2011, Austria
8th Konstanzer Kurzfilmspiele 2011, Germany
13th Youki International Media Festival 2011, Austria
XI Ediciòn del Festival Internacional de Cine Y Video Experimental Vallecas Puerta Del Cine 2011, Spain
Cinema Next Screening 2011, Austria
2nd International Short Film and Video Festival Novi Sad 2011, Serbia