films
UNGEHORSAM
Fiction, 90 min., Color, Austria, 2016
German with English subtitles
Buch und Regie / Script, Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Director of Photograph / Kamera: Sepp Nermuth
Schnitt / Editing: Mara Mattuschka
Musikkomposition / Composition of music: : Franz Hautzinger
Produktion / Production: Terese Schulmeister
Starring:
Sarah Born – Terese
Rainer Doppler – Otto Mühl
Thomas Kamper – Otto Schulmeister
Martina Spitzer – Hedwig
Marlene Schilbach – Terese Kind
Erwin Leder – Monsignore
UNGEHORSAM erzählt vom Verlust von Illusionen und Utopien. Aufgewachsen in einer Wiener Familie, die von der temperamentvollen Dominanz und der öffentlichen Bekanntheit des Vaters als Chefredakteur der ‚Presse‘ geprägt ist wie auch vom rätselhaftem Kummer der Mutter, die sich für Mann und Kinder verausgabt, sucht Terese nach einem anderen Leben und schließt sich der Kommune des AKtionskünstlers Otto Mühl an. Das zunächst so frei scheinende Liebes- und Lebensexperiment scheitert jedoch zunehmend. Eine Montage aus Zeitsprüngen führt immer tiefer in die emotionale Welt der Protagonistin.
DISOBEDIENT refers to the loss of illusions and utopias.
It tells the story of growing up in a conservative Viennese family being shaped by the father’s temperament and the mother’s enigmatic sorrow. Terese breaks out of this narrow, patriarchal mold
to join a commune founded by Otto Muehl. This initially seems to be a very liberating life and love experiment, but it increasingly glides into failure. A montage between two worlds that are
perhaps not so entirely different involve the viewer in the emotional world of the film’s protagonist.
BACK TO FUCKING CAMBRIDGE
A film about Vienna at the turn of the Century
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister and Otto Muehl
Concept: Otto Mühl
The satirical film "Back to fucking Cambridge" focuses on the tragic relationship between Richard Gerstl and Arnold and Mathilde Schönberg in the context of Viennese cultural and intellectual life around 1900. The protagonists of the film are embodied by 34 artists and well-known personalities of the Viennese cultural scene, including Theo Altenberg as Richard Gerstl, Oswald Oberhuber as Arnold Schönberg, Judith Goldblat as Mathilde Schönberg, Otto Muehl as Sigmund Freud, Gotthard Graubner as Gustav Klimt, Maria Lassnig as Anna O., Harald Szeemann as Otto Gross and Nam June Paik as Anton Webern. The title of the film refers to the scene in which the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, portrayed by Norman Rosenthal, ends his professional intermezzo as a village school teacher with the words "Back to fucking Cambridge".
Starring:
Theo Altenberg, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Lucio Amelio, Günter Brus, Annie Brus, Georg Jiri Dokoupil, Erich Fischer, Rudi Fuchs, Gotthard Graubner, Johannes Gachnang, Judith Goldblat, Kurt Kalb, Maria Lassnig, Otto Muehl, Claudia Muehl, Viktor Matejka, Oswald Oberhuber, Nam June Paik, Wilfried Zeller-Zellenberg, John Sailer, Norman Rosenthal, Lisl Stein, Harald Szeemann, Raffael Ortiz, Franz Graf, Dieter Reichert, Diter Roth, Helmut Federle, Joachim Goppelt, Michael Oetker, Herbert Stumpfl and many more.
Cinematography: Werner Hertel
Editing: Werner Hertel
Length: 60 min.
German with English subtitles
Premiere: Wiener Secession, 1987
Presentations:
- Kino Broadway, Köln
- Urania, Berlin
- Sputnik Kino, Berlin
- Lenbachhaus, München
- Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
- Galerie de Appel, Amsterdam
- Kino Orfeo Frankfurt
- Stadtgartenkino Köln
- P.S.1 Museum/ The Clocktower Gallery/ New York
- Verein Kunsthalle St. Gallen
- ORF "Kunststücke", 1993
- Sammlung Friedrichshof 2019
- Leopoldmuseum Wien 2019
ANDY'S CAKE
Stories of Andy Warhols Factory
Directed by: Otto Mühl and Terese Schulmeister
Concept: Otto Mühl
The film “Andy´s Cake” is an opulent secession of scenes taken from Andy Warhol´s Factory in which different artists of the international artscene play Andy´s antagonists: for example Maria Lassnig as Valery Solanis who nearly successfully attempts to kill Andy, or Otto Muehl as Julia Warhola, who claims to be the better painter, Oswald Oberhuber as Jackson Pollock and Nam June Paik as priest who gives the last sacrament to Andy just before he knocks at the door of the castle in Princes Village where Hermann Nitsch helps to fulfill his greatest wish: to go down in an orgy of blood and chaos.
Starring:
Theo Altenberg, Edek Bartz, Herbert Brandl, Josef Danner, Jiri Georg Dokoupil, Friedrich Geyrhofer, Lorand Hegyi, Kurt Kalb, Martin Kippenberger, Hubert Klocker, Ursula Krinzinger, Adolf Krischanitz, Maria Lassnig, Cary Leibowitz, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Konrad Oberhuber, Oswald Oberhuber, Albert Oehlen, Nam June Paik, Martin Prinzhorn, Peter Raue, Violaine Roussies, Heinrich Steinek, Peter Weibel, Hans Weigand, Heimo Zobernig and many more.
Cinematography: Sandro Decleva, Heinz Brandtner, Peter Gold, Johannes Holzhausen
Original Version: Video Betacam SP Language: German with English subtitles
Length: 46 min.
Premiere: Wiener Secession, March 11 1993
Presentations:
- Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films, 1993
- ORF, Kunststücke 1993
PICASSO
A film about Pablo Picasso
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Concept: Otto Mühl
The satyrical parody “Picasso” deals with the tragedy of an artist, who has been successful. All of a sudden he becomes a businessman, who is being pushed to production. Furthermore Pablo doesn´t have much luck with women. Francoise Gilot runs away when she discovers the goat Minna in her bed with her own nightgown on! The next is Jaqueline who is running a ceramics manufactory in Vallauris. She instead keeps him on a short line and shows blatantly her material interest, driving him on to produce more. Only his best friend Sabartes understands him, but he dies of grief, because he cannot bear her dictatorship. In the meantime Pablo has become the victim of Jaqueline, who also determines the art of her senile husband… The film is certainly not a documentary, it is a tragicomical parody parallel to reality.
Starring:
Theo Altenberg, Violaine Roussies, Dieter Reichert, Judith Goldblat, Francesco Conz, Philipp Corner, Friedrich Geyrhofer, Kurt Kalb, Günter Brus, Joachim Goppelt, Jean Pierre Goldblat and many more.
Cinematography: Werner Hertel
Editing: Werner Hertel
Original Version: German, Umatic Lowband
Length: 60 min.
Premiere: Friedrichshof, Feb. 1986
VINCENT
a film about Vincent van Gogh
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Concept: Otto Mühl
The film portrays Vincent van Gogh as the archetype of an anarchical artist. Vincent as the first hippy, provocateur and outsider. A drop-out who tries to escape from the narrow confines of society by becoming an artist.
Starring:
Theo Altenberg, Günter Brus, Francesco Conz, Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Kurt Kalb, Erich Fischer, Violaine Roussies, Judith Goldblat, Oswald Oberhuber, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Francesco Conzr, Orlan, Friedrich Geyrhofer, Rudi Schmutz, Al Hansen, Johannes Gachnang, Peter Forstner, Philipp Corner, Fatma Lootah, Erika, Gigi and Silvestre Micheli and many more.
Paintings: Otto Mühl
Music: Gerhild Gillming, Burkhardt Schlothauer, Klaus Grabenhorst and the Friedrichshofer Band
Cinematography: Werner Hertel
Editing: Werner Hertel
Original Version: German with English subtitles, Color, Umatic Lowband
Length: 85 min.
Premiere: Friedrichshof, 1984
Presentations:
- Vincent van Gogh Filmfestival Amsterdam 1990,
- Wiener Secession 1985
COLUMBUS
1988, 13 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Christof Columbus succeeds to convince Queen Isabel of Spain to equip him to sail accross the Atlantic. This and what happens to the Spaniards when they meet the indigenous people is shown in this film shot on the island of La Gomera.
CASPAR DAVID FRIEDRICH
1987, 18 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
The melancholy emanating from Caspar David Friedrich painting lonely in the snow becomes grotesque when he turns into a blood-sucking dracula who knows how to escape the vigilance of the lord of the castle and get at his victims.
DER FÜHRER KOMMT, childrens' film
1986, 18 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
When Hitler fails the entrance exam for the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna he swears revenge. As soon as he becomes Imperial Chancellor, he mobilises troops to occupy Austria and insists on retaking the exam for the Academy.
XI DAI, childrens' film,
1985, 19 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Everyone is engaged in intense physical training in the camps of the two enemies „Roter Schnee“ and „Schwarzer Oktober“. When a spy is uncovered full-scale fighting breaks out.
DER MALER PABLO PICASSO, childrens' film,
1985, 30 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Picassos early years in Paris were characterized by poverty, yet wild parties with artist-friends were common. His life –so full of adventures with women- ends in the staid happiness of an ageing couple.
DSCHUGASCHWILI AUS GEORGIEN, childrens' film,
1985, 24 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Forced collectivism, famines, errors and mistakes mark Stalin´s ruthless rise to dictorial power and only increase his madness until he even declares a chicken to be an English spy that should be liquidated.
ZEN
1984 , 44 min., Video Umatic Low Band
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
The strict Master of a Zen monastery sends a rebellious monk out into the world where he gets involved in dangerous situations. He can only help himself by telephoning the master for advice.
MÄNNERJAGD
1983, 7 min., Video U-matic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
A wild yet humorous safari of women to chase and capture men.
DIE VERWANDLUNG
1983, 22 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Loosely based on Kafka´s famous novel the film tells the story of a son who one day wakes up as a pig...
ON THE ROAD WITH EMILY
1983, 20 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Emilie, a lonely old lady, is sucked into maelstrom of unreal pictures and into a sexual chase where real experience mixes with ecstatic and terrifying visions.
INFERNO
1983, 7 min., Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
Neonazis, women´s groups, sects, skinheads, punks, the Pope and different groups of the society produce an apocalyptic szenario in a disastrous football match.
HEXENJAGD
1983, 11 min.,Video Umatic Lowband
Concept: Otto Muehl
Directed by: Terese Schulmeister
The fight of the church against the sexuality of women by criminalizing them as witches reveals the insanity of manipulation in the perverted torture and liquidation of women who are suspected to be sexually attractive.