Gustav Deutsch

Fragments of several (mostly) silent films are shown. They're guided by quotes from, among others, Plato and Sappho and a soundtrack. (imdb)

An avant-garde collage from Gustav Deutsch, using found footage from various scientific films to explore the impact and nature of film. (Mubi)

The second half of Gustav Deutsch's experimental Film ist. series, constructing new narratives and moods out of existing footage, mostly from early silent era films.

13 of Edward Hopper's paintings are brought alive by the film, telling the story of a woman, whose thoughts, emotions and contemplations lets us observe an era in American history. Shirley is a woman in America in the 1930s, '40s, '50s, and early '60s. (shirley-visions-of-reality.com)

21 fragments of a feature film, made in India, found in casablance, adapted in Vienna. (imdb)

24 formula on the medium film. 24 sound quotes on film history. 25 frames of a blink of an eye. Cinema is a battlefield and an amour fou, a time between two blinks of the eye and an artificially delineated territory between two signal beeps. (imdb)

Three historical camera pans across the streets and squares of Vienna, Surabaya, and Porto provide a starting point for reflection on the relationship of everyday stories and cinematic machinery. (Letterboxd)

The new trailer for Filmarchiv Austria by Gustav Deutsch is shorter than a minute and shows pictures of burning houses from the early days of cinema. The pictures themselves have begun to decay, are “burned”, even though the damage to the film was caused by water. The music is contributed by Christian Fennesz, the Viennese electronic champ. It makes us feel the cinema as well as the fire and at the same time one can sense a new approach to museum relics. (gustavdeutsch.net)