Michael Pilz

Most Popular Michael Pilz Trailers

Total trailers found: 33

How the Ladies Pay (Lou Reed) Trailer (1977)

01 August 1977

Unusual interview on the occasion of Lou Reed's concert in Vienna . Highly personal, funny and rambling.

Bumerang-Bumerang Trailer (1989)

25 October 1989

A group of young people become involved with the kidnap of a local politician with the aim of halting construction work on a nearby nuclear power plant.

Noah Delta II Trailer (1986)

01 January 1986

Accidentally, as if they had secretly intended to do so, Jonas and Maria meet. They go on a trip together and try to find out what sense there is in living and the road to freedom.

Paticca-samuppada Trailer (1986)

16 October 1986

"Deep is the doctrine of events as arising from causes, and it looks deep too. It is through not understanding this doctrine, through not penetrating it, that this generation has become a tangled skein, a matted ball of thread, like munja-grass and rushes, unable to overpass the doom of the Waste, the Woeful Way, the Downfall, the Constand Round (of transmigration).

Across the River Trailer (2004)

05 May 2004

Across the River is a documentary on the cultural ex-change that took place when the Tonga music ensemble Simonga and the people living in the village of Siachilaba near Zimbabwe’s Lake Kariba met with a group of Austrian musicians and composers.

At First Sight Trailer (2008)

23 January 2008

This film shot by Michael Pilz between 1964 and 2005 is a meditative documentary in which personal images can be read as the director's way to liberation in the spirit of Eastern philosophy.

Wladimir Nixon Trailer (1971)

01 January 1971

Windows, Dogs And Horses Trailer (2006)

26 January 2006

A film for meditation. Images and sounds and the way they are related to each other mark clear, real, sensory experiences and their traces.

Park of Remembrance Trailer (1988)

31 January 1988

Parco delle Rimembranze is a film which offers us the opportunity to reflect, to observe and to listen and thereby experience something that happens when we slowly close our eyes and expose ourselves, not yet asleep to dreams, to uncertainness and chance, to unwanted events.

Roman Diary Trailer (2011)

01 January 2011

In a long, slow, silent procession, they pass by the viewer: the stone-hewn witnesses of a battle that took place more than a century and a half ago in Rome.

Yemen Travelogue – Days at Shibam and Seiyun Trailer (2008)

12 May 2008

In April 2006, my friend Nikolaus Scholz and I flew to Sana'a, the capital of the Republic of Yemen, and traveled to Shibam, the legendary mud-brick skyscraper city, the ancient „Manhattan of the Desert“.

Teatime Teheran Trailer (2022)

15 March 2022

Gabriele Hochleitner's camera on Michael Pilz in Khosrow Sinai's – his friend's – home in Tehera8

Indian Diary - Days at Sree Sankara Trailer (2001)

25 April 2001

Actually, Michael Pilz wanted to make his trip to India kameralos, but when he told a girlfriend just before departure, she said only that he would go to the bottom if he can not take pictures.

With Love #3 Trailer (2021)

23 October 2021

Cinematographic poem. Diary

That's All There Is Trailer (2005)

01 January 2005

A compilation of 16-year-old documentary footage taken by the director while watching rehearsals of three theatre productions of Samuel Beckett's plays at George Tabori's theater Der Kreis in Vienna.

Silence Trailer (2007)

12 May 2007

If the mind is silent, and is willing to accept what happens, there are some very receptive happenings.

Slow Summer Trailer (1976)

23 April 1976

A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.

Siberian Diary — Days At Apanas Trailer (2003)

04 March 2003

Poetic cuttings and intimate interviews with inhabitants of a small village called Apanas, who are covered with snow and cut off from the world for six month a year.

Three Days, My Friend Trailer (2021)

01 February 2021

The gentle breath of wind that blows down from the mountains, hangs in the palm leaves, moves them barely noticeably, caresses them and plays with the last rays of sunshine and the shadows that herald the cool evening.

Let‘s Sit Down Before We Leave Trailer (1995)

01 January 1995

A cinematographic reflection on external and internal images based on a journey to Siberia: looking, listening and marvelling.

This is how I See, how I Remember, My World Trailer (2022)

06 October 2022

Michael Pilz re-examines his image archive to build a cinematic poem with footage shot between 2009 and 2018 in Iran and the Canary islands of La Gomera and El Hierro.

Bridge To Monticello Trailer (1998)

01 January 1998

Film that was made in 1996 during Pilz's stay in the USA, where he spent time visiting the Austrian painter and emigrant Josef Schützenhöfer.

Facts for Fiction Trailer (1997)

22 June 1997

For one night Michael Pilz rides through New York with a remarkable taxi driver, Jeff Perkins. Sitting by his side, looking and listening, sometimes intervening, he uses his handy high-8 camera like a writing instrument, a „camera-stylo“.

Vermischte Nachrichten Trailer (2006)

01 January 2006

Heaven and Earth Trailer (1983)

26 February 1983

An essay film or an ethnographic documentary, contemplating the finite lot of individuals as part of a continuum of human experience in the natural world.

Feldberg Trailer (1990)

23 October 1990

In this evocative work, we hear and see the interactions of a man and a woman in a pristine forest. We gain a sense of intimacy with them and nature.

Rose and Jasmine Trailer (2011)

31 January 2011

A cinematographic poem based on the director’s journeys in Iran from 2006-2007.

Cage Trailer (1993)

01 January 1993

A cinematographic attempt at a maximum of exertion and a maximum of relaxation based on the thoughts of John Cage, Chuang Tzu and others.

Zero Trailer (1975)

01 January 1975

Found footage filmed by Russian soldiers in Vienna in 1945. On the soundtrack is “ The Flat Foot Floogee” with a “Floy Floy,” 1938, by Louis Armstrong and the Mills Brothers.

80cm 5t Trailer (1989)

17 October 1989

Karl Prantl, the main character in the film, is one of the leading figures of Austrian art. As a sculptor - as one who shapes stones - he has produced an oeuvre of rare consistency and coherence, created out of an awareness of the fundamental concerns and utterances of man.

With Love – Volume One 1987-1996 Trailer (2020)

27 January 2020

To this day, a work in progress called 'Curtains' can be found on the extensive website of Austrian maverick master Michael Pilz.

Triptych Trailer (2018)

23 September 2018

Originally intended as a four-room media installation, allowing the viewer to "live" the film, come and go, Michael Pilz's essay about South Styrian painter Gerald Brettschuh was adapted to one 751 minutes sequential documentary with three parts and an epilogue.

All The Vermeers in Prague Trailer (1994)

01 January 1994

"A montage of years of personal videography. My way of seeing was, and remains, more important than the object itself.