Friedl Kubelka is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946. Her photographic practice has been attributed to a 20th-century movement known as Feminist Actionism or Viennese Actionism.
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01 January 2011
A young woman's body becomes the medium for the viewer’s projections of the stories and biographies that are imagined about her.
28 October 2023
The setting of the film was simple and straightforward: the now 77-year-old Friedl vom Gröller asks a (homosexual) escort to do a nude film session, has the man’s fine rib underpants pulled down by her younger accomplice, filmmaker Josephine Ahnelt – who, like a puppeteer, remains hidden behind a wooden wall – and exposes his member.
26 October 2021
What goes missing in a time when mouths are covered by masks? At the beginning you see a set of replacement teeth.
09 December 2024
The lovesick Jelena spends her afternoons strolling among the tombs and leafless trees at Père-Lachaise cemetery.
28 October 2023
A bowl on the ground. The fallen leaves around it reference autumn. A letter enters the frame—aged hands tear it up, and its pieces fall into the bowl, not unlike leaves.
31 October 2023
Friedl vom Gröller doesn’t give Christiana Perschon an interview. She gives her more: the film of a brief encounter, which in its ephemeral playfulness, precisely captures the artistic program of those portrayed.
28 April 2023
“This unwavering attitude as well as his decision to develop his own film style under and with financially difficult circumstances are the empowering legacy for which I will always be grateful to Jonas.
01 January 1974
A young woman sits on a bench in a baroque park. The motion of the wind in the leaves, in her hair, and also the flutter of her eyelashes, the opening of her lips, her imperceptible smile are all made visible with the absolutely static camera.
08 July 1999
In this work the situation of shooting film as experienced by the subject and filmmaker is most clearly visible in the loving and then hurt facial expression of the mother, who in the end disregards the filmmaker´s instruction and disappears from the picture.
01 January 2018
A pan along a gallery of large washing machines in a laundromat. Two women speak sign language and a third feeds coins into the machine.
28 August 2022
A short film with music written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.
01 January 2014
May 2012 is composed of three visual elements. In the momentary opening shot the camera spies on riverside joggers from the Donaumarina U-Bahn station.
01 January 2013
Im Wiener Prater is not about the amusement park that one normally associates with this name. The spectacle in the film takes place in a much more basic sense.
07 June 2010
It's composed of multiple jump-cut close-ups of a beautiful Roman Bacchante bust with garland braid and vacant eyes in the Louvre, as students and patrons mill about in the grand gallery flooded with light, casting their gaze upon the classical figure holding a basket of grapes.
07 March 2009
A tiny picaresque set in Paris chronicling Kubelka’s coy encounter with an unnamed man.
24 August 2010
Photo session is a film about a pair. A human pair: man and woman, no longer young but when they laugh together they´re as exuberant as children.
01 January 2000
A young man spitting cherry pits, with an off-screen accomplice, attempts to hit the camera´s lens with one of them.
01 January 2019
“La mia Camera” means my room, a balcony with curtains, (and my film camera). The main characters are the wind and its dancing playmate, the curtain.
09 October 2014
A pan on a dilapidated square, doubled with an another pan showing a series of portraits of local men staring into the camera lens.
10 April 2013
Four young women present themselves seductively, self confidently and with some signs of shame. The camera´s low angle creates – in spite of feminism – a provocative image of Eva’s everlasting attraction.
08 July 1994
In a series of films made in the 1990s Friedl Kubelka introduced a new element: her participation in the film by interacting with the subject.
27 January 2020
A cheerful ritual in praise of Mami Wata, a mermaid-like water spirit of life, sex and healing. A joyful show of Friedl vom Gröller's particular sense of humour as well as another short song of praise for the unique beauty to be found only in 16mm film.
01 January 2012
The continuation of a portrait of Gaelle Obiegly. The focus of the film is not a portrait, but rather a wide variety of cable cords in a cellar, attached to diverse light sources.
08 April 2009
Paris in June 2009. The title leads us to expect a personal diary entry made in a city that has often been used as a setting for ideas of love.
20 May 2015
Men, their faces in close-up, gazing face first into the camera one after the other is the opening motif of this barely three-minute film, which only right at the end, and after the credits reveals a view of the city of Rome; of a fountain and its water-jet, which at this point could also be ambiguously interpreted and here, as already in earlier films, through (humorous) breaks with and against itself, mirrors a direct interpretation.
01 January 2009
The film by photographer and filmmaker Friedl vom Gröller is the short portrait of a woman full of secrets.
31 July 2009
Five older women, loosely grouped in two rows, gaze into the camera. At times only details of their faces can be seen, a sixth woman walks through the picture, joins the others.
15 October 2021
In Maya Deren’s AT LAND, each vision of a foot hitting the ground took us into a new space via the magic of montage.
01 January 2018
Winter in Paris begins with a still-life of a window sill and beautifully detours to a gruesome-erotic allegory of death.
16 February 2012
A publication offering a selective retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Friedl Kubelka – known as a filmmaker under the name of Friedl vom Gröller.
09 April 2013
A salon piece in black and white. The filmmaker circles the amorous play. Gestures and blurs, intuitively precise in-camera edits condense the situation of debauchery and digression.
08 July 1969
Filmed photo portraits Erwin, Toni, Ilse, is one of Friedl Kubelka’s first films. Influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and Existentialism, it was shot in the late 1960s at 16 frames per second and have not been edited.
14 August 2012
Past the newsstand, the hairdressers, by the dry cleaners. A door opens into a sick room. A very old woman lies there in her bed.
19 July 2013
The film virtually opens with a false lead, showing a poster for for Shiseido cosmetics – the kind of sign we are accustomed to seeing in display windows of perfume shops or department stores.
01 January 2011
Gaelle Obiegly is a film about not being able to see, and a reversal of the gaze.
01 January 2019
Friedl vom Gröller´s Rust starts by gazing into the strained face of the saint. The artist herself reads "Holzschnitt", or woodcut, rather as "Höllenszene", a scene of Hell – perhaps because it appears as if animate nature is trying to force the giant to the ground.
23 December 1969
The focus narrows to short cuts relating to the place were the footage was shot, then moves to the portrait´s subject, Franz West, sitting at a wine tavern´s table.
08 July 2001
Playing a part or stepping outside it. Lisa, who looks like Friedl vom Gröller´s sister, practises looking into the camera.
01 January 2015
The title appears in thick boldface print. A short sequence of documentary snapshots, filmed off found paintings.
25 October 2022
Filmmakers love shooting through windows, the various lockdowns were proof of that. Friedl vom Gröller, however, decided with typical playfulness to film the windows themselves, or their replacement, to be exact.
01 January 2013
NEC SPE, NEC METU follows upon Gutes Ende (Bliss) and Ich auch, auch, ich auch (Me too, too, me too), and it is the third film of Friedl vom Gröller to record visits to her mother in a nursing home.
13 June 2021
An ongoing portrait of Max Turnheim that begun in 2002 when he was 20 years old.
07 June 2010
A 2010 silent short film directed by Friedl vom Gröller. The film screened at Hong Kong International Film Festival in 2011.
14 August 2011
Portrait of the artist’s mother as an old woman. A farewell vignette, a final sketch from her nursing home, silent, aloof, clumsy, metallic gray, candidly-bluntly-awkwardly direct.
01 January 2004
This was supposed to be a trial film for the artist to test her defective camera. In Allegory, Friedl vom Gröller stands in the foreground of the scene, anxiously looking into the camera.
01 January 2009
Wedding is a meta-amateur film, a reflection and a condensation of its form: black and white, silent, 16mm, and only two minutes long.
09 September 2017
A silent, black and white film portrait of two children set against the eponymous Swiss river, Ticino takes its cue from Franz West's famous "Adaptives" sculptures.
31 October 2023
The filmmaker Friedl vom Gröller films herself and her colleague, the filmmaker Christiana Perschon.
05 September 2014
Friedl vom Gröller's Poetry for Sale is a portrait of a young man peddling verse on the Paris metro.
01 January 2016
Oppressive and childlike, erotic symbols and surreal moments.
01 January 2013
The filming of my discomfort at being a woman between the ages of 60-70 in our society has the function of a valve.
01 January 2014
The natural law of capitalism as expressed by a hungry boa constrictor.
07 September 2025
An elusive 16mm miniature from the legendary Friedl vom Gröller, Conditio Humana intersperses footage of the crumbling sandstone façade of Pavia’s Basilica di San Michele Maggiore with the returned stares of three performers.
19 March 2026
Pavia, Lombardy, April 2025. Friedl vom Gröller unpacks her 16mm camera and films: first a wall, then the pattern of a shirt, then a clothing market.
01 November 2011
A group of people in a room eating pizza, drinking, conversing, perhaps having a party.
11 April 2005
The theme of this short film is the relationship between psychoanalyst and client. Vom Gröll plays the analyst, a role she knows from real life.
