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Norbert Pfaffenbichler (born 26 April 1967 in Steyr) is an Austrian artist, filmmaker and curator. He studied Media Design at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He is also co-founder of VIDOK Studio. Pfaffenbichler was involved with the Austrian abstract cinema movement which emerged in the 1990s. In 2002, he started working on his film series Notes on Film, in which he deconstructs film history from an artistic perspective. Since then, he has made a number of experimental short films, stage videos and curated exhibitions throughout Austria. He lives in Vienna.
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01 January 2013
Thanks to his myriad film roles, Lon Chaney is known as “the man of a thousand faces,” and you could say that the early horror era never beheld a figure more intriguing.
01 January 1997
In our vision of the future, everyone has received a neuronal interface, also called a brainchip. This chip enables direct mental interaction with external computers.
14 August 2013
In this experimental film, British actor Boris Karloff (1887-1969) embodies over 170 characters, experiencing a schizophrenic horror trip in which he faces versions of himself in different masks, at different ages, of different genders and races.
01 January 2019
What looks like a beefy sea cucumber sunk in a toaster without casing is actually a computer-controlled organ of speech.
01 January 1998
A fascinating videoclip - fascinating for those familiar with the potential energy and beauty held in minimalism.
01 January 2003
What is the human body able to sustain when subjected to devices that record sounds and images? And what can be done with the human body when it tends to evade the representational codes of these devices? MAZY (meaning labyrinthine), based on the choreography by Willi Dorner, offers three answers formulated with the dispositives of video, film and computer: videographic marionette, expressive filmic being and computerized trace of movement.
01 January 2007
For the artist Fernand Leger (1881-1955), the promise of film as a new art form lay in its potential to exhibit the visual, to present an image rather than tell a story.
14 August 2001
36 refers to both aesthetic traditions of abstract painting and the structural approaches of early geometric films (such as those of Walther Ruttmann and Hans Richter).
01 January 1998
Santora is a metrically buildt cord of images based on the number 3 and the music of Fennesz. The video explores combinations of geometrical formes, building up corresponding sounds.
11 June 2012
A furious scene, virtuously reassembled, continuously intensifying, yet never moving. A brief excerpt from Charlie Chaplin’s 'The Floorwalker' (1916) serves as starting sequence for 'Intermezzo'.
01 January 2006
The work is based on the idea of making a video with a minimum number of parameters. A uniform white grid on a blue background structures the picture.
01 January 2010
A “test run” for Pfaffenbichler's hitherto unsuccessful attempt to adapt Oedipus. The film is occupied exclusively with blind people, whose faces are illuminated in such a way that they look like masks, completely indebted to the spirit of Greek theater.
01 January 2018
Norbert Pfaffenbichler pieces together clips from 160 James Mason films to examine the eternally urbane star's career.
01 January 2006
This experiment on the theme of difference and repetition combines methods used in structural films and elements of narrative cinema.
25 January 2023
Sometime, hopefully not too soon, in a place wherever but not here, all life will have moved underground after a failed uprising.
01 June 2021
A man rescues a boy and later tries to get him off his back but to little avail, so they end up drifting around a subterranean world, populated by grotesque masked figures.
02 February 2025
There are no taboos in the grotesque underground realm of Pfaffenbichler’s 2551 movies, which cross all borders, especially those of good taste.
14 July 2011
In this grotesque found-footage-film, close-ups of actors playing Adolf Hitler in movies created between 1940 and today are combined in shot/countershot style.
19 October 2014
Isolated from the rest of the action, this time the pram from Eisenstein’s Odessa Steps sequence in Battleship Potemkin really crashes to the bottom.
01 January 2015
The experimental short negotiates the conventions of the invisible camera. In a bare room without windows or doors, someone puts up a futile against the steady gaze of a bodiless camera.
30 January 2026
ADGIN PRRX is an anagram of Grand Prix, the title of John Frankenheimer's monumental car racing film, which Norbert Pfaffenbichler has remounted here into a strictly metrical and deeply personal meditation on the nature of time, the thrill of speed, and the melancholy of creeping deceleration, standstill, and death.
