Friedl vom Gröller Movies

Pavia, Lombardy, April 2025. Friedl vom Gröller unpacks her 16mm camera and films: first a wall, then the pattern of a shirt, then a clothing...

A pan on a dilapidated square, doubled with an another pan showing a series of portraits of local men staring into the camera lens.

The film virtually opens with a false lead, showing a poster for for Shiseido cosmetics – the kind of sign we are accustomed to seeing in...

Friedl vom Gröller's Poetry for Sale is a portrait of a young man peddling verse on the Paris metro. Reinforcing the antiquated nature of his...

A cheerful ritual in praise of Mami Wata, a mermaid-like water spirit of life, sex and healing. A joyful show of Friedl vom Gröller's particular...

Filmed photo portraits Erwin, Toni, Ilse, is one of Friedl Kubelka’s first films. Influenced by the Nouvelle Vague and Existentialism, it was...

The natural law of capitalism as expressed by a hungry boa constrictor.

The filming of my discomfort at being a woman between the ages of 60-70 in our society has the function of a valve. It is based on the...

A publication offering a selective retrospective of the work of photographer and filmmaker Friedl Kubelka – known as a filmmaker under the name...

A film like a punch in the stomach. Blind photographer Evgen Bavčar examines the bodies of four women. The women's expressions and gestures...

“This unwavering attitude as well as his decision to develop his own film style under and with financially difficult circumstances are the...

Winter in Paris begins with a still-life of a window sill and beautifully detours to a gruesome-erotic allegory of death.

A short film by Austrian experimental film maker Friedl vom Gröller.

The longtime friend and photographer Heidi Harsieber with Friedl vom Gröller in an early, very charming portrait, in which the young women still...

“La mia Camera” means my room, a balcony with curtains, (and my film camera). The main characters are the wind and its dancing playmate,...

16mm short film

Im Wiener Prater is not about the amusement park that one normally associates with this name. The spectacle in the film takes place in a much more...

Paris in June 2009. The title leads us to expect a personal diary entry made in a city that has often been used as a setting for ideas of love. In...

Close-ups of people's faces—psychoanalysts—reading Gröller's protocols. The fire inexorably burns through the paper. The notes about...

Like a dark screen stencil, a young woman dances in front of an open window. Although the film is silent, the rhythm of the music to which she dances...