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Michael Pilz (Austria)

Michael Pilz was born in 1943 in Gmünd, Lower Austria, close to where the „Iron Curtain“ used to separate Austria and Czechoslovakia. Years of 1952-55 he spent as choirboy in Monastery boarding school in Zwettl. In 1954 he started to take pictures and work with 8 mm film. In 1956 he moved to Vienna and became influenced by work of Jackson Pollock, Karl Prantl, Robert Frank, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Bresson, etc.
Later on he developed a growing interest in the technical, material, and mental aspects of cinematography as well as the various ways of expressing the subconscious in film which lead in his experimental period of the sixties. He had, above all, experimented with different cameras and the film material itself (all forms of direct treatment such as painting, scratching), handheld and out-of-control-moving cameras, and absurd, that is to say anarchist staging. He took various approaches to examine pure („basic“) cinematic phenomena. Unfortunately most of that experimental material has been lost.
During the seventies Pilz worked as author and director in different genres for various departments of ORF, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (cultural programs, entertainment, documentaries, including movie Franz Grimus, 1977).
Since 1983, Pilz has engaged in delivering occasional lectures and holding workshops on aesthetics and experimental filmmaking, mainly abroad.
In 1988/1990 he made Feldberg - experimental fiction feature film without dialogs.
During last two decades Pilz has been concentrating mostly on producing films shot on his extensive travels.

Filmography

  • Invocation of Bliss
    2009
  • Yemen Travelogue – Days at Shibam and Seiyun
    2008
  • Haiku happens
    2007
  • Windows, dogs and horses
    2005
  • Siberian Diary – Days At Apanas
    2003
  • Indian Diary – Days At Sree Sankara
    2000
  • Pieces Of Dreams
    1999
  • Was übersetzt ist noch nicht angekommen/ Facts For Fiction
    1996
  • Prisyadim na dorozhku/ Let‘s Sit Down Before We Leave
    1995
  • All the Vermeers in Prague
    1994
  • State Of Grace
    1991/93
  • Two Horse Town
    1991
  • Feldberg
    1990
  • 80cm 5t/ Eighty Centimeters Five Tons
    1989
  • Staatz Ende
    1989
  • Der Lauf des Wassers
    1988
  • Zen im Steinbruch
    1987
  • Parco delle Rimembranze/ Park of Remembrance
    1987
  • Paticca-samuppada
    1986
  • Noah Delta II
    1985
  • Wels
    1984
  • Himmel und Erde/ Heaven and Earth
    1982
  • Sandvic Image
    1979
  • Landkino/ Country Movie Houses
    1978
  • Schule und Autorität/ School and Authority
    1978
  • How the ladies pay
    1977
  • Franz Grimus
    1977
  • Die Generalin
    1977
  • Langsamer Sommer - together with John Cook
    1976
  • Das Lied vom Hofer
    1975
  • Zero
    1975
  • Jahresrückblick
    1975
  • L’imagination des yeux
    1973
  • Wladimir Nixon
    1972
  • Wienerinnen
    1971
  • Easy Feeling
    1971
  • Coop Himmelblau - together with Coop Himmelblau
    1970
  • Underground - together with Gert Winkler
    1969
  • Lui - together with Gert Winkler, Lui Dimanche
    1969
  • Jascha
    1969
  • Für Peter Noever und Achille Castiglioni
    1969
  • Maskerade
    1969
  • Big Shot - together with Gert Winkler
    1968
  • Hausrucker–Co Ballon für zwei
    1967
  • Unter Freunden
    1966
  • Plakatkleber
    1965

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