Michael Pilz

This is how I See, how I Remember, My World (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. The time of the film is generous and welcomes us into the intimacy of the one shooting. ...

Teatime Teheran (2022)

Gabriele Hochleitner's camera on Michael Pilz in Khosrow Sinai's – his friend's – home in Teheran, October 2007, during her shootings for her portrait For Some Friends/2008 ...

Three Days, My Friend (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... and then, out of the imperceptible, ...

With Love – Volume One 1987-1996 (2020)

To this day, a work in progress called 'Curtains' can be found on the extensive website of Austrian maverick master Michael Pilz. The idea was to edit all the curtains shots he ever made in strictly chronological order – as a pars pro toto representation ...

Triptych (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 epi ...

Rose and Jasmine (2011)

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

Roman Diary (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. In 1849 the city, where the advocates of the democratic republic had entrenched themselves, was be ...

Yemen Travelogue – Days at Shibam and Seiyun (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". Following an invitation of a German development c ...

At First Sight (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. It is conceived as an inner pastiche which permits the message to ...

Silence (2007)

If the mind is silent, and is willing to accept what happens, there are some very receptive happenings. So there is actually nothing to fear. ...

Windows, Dogs And Horses (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. Sometimes they appear as minimalist riddles. Meaning can only be derived by approaching them in an open and circumsp ...

That's All There Is (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. The plays were then directed by theatre director Jack Ga ...

Across the River (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. It highli ...

Siberian Diary — Days At Apanas (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. ...

Indian Diary - Days at Sree Sankara (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. This is how one of the core works in Mushroom's oeuvre emerged ...

Bridge To Monticello (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. During his, Schützenhöfer showed Pilz the crumbling surroundings of Monticello, the former residence of Presid ...

Facts for Fiction (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". ...

Let‘s Sit Down Before We Leave (1995)

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

All The Vermeers in Prague (1994)

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

Cage (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. ...

Feldberg (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. Suddenly we leave the worries of our scattered lives and begin to remember the primal elements of existenc ...

Bumerang-Bumerang (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. ...

80cm 5t (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 ...

Park of Remembrance (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, ...

Paticca-samuppada (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, ...

Heaven and Earth (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. Himmel und Erde, translatable as Heaven and Earth, was recorded between 1979 and 1982. The documenta ...

How the Ladies Pay (Lou Reed) (1977)

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

Slow Summer (1976)

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

Zero (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. It is also part of " Das Lied vom Hofer" (1972). ...

Wladimir Nixon (1971)

Teatime Teheran (2022)

Gabriele Hochleitner's camera on Michael Pilz in Khosrow Sinai's – his friend's – home in Teheran, October 2007, during her shootings for her portrait For Some Friends/2008 ...

Slow Summer (1976)

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