Gerald Harringer :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Gerald Harringer

About the artist

Gerald Harringer. Born 1962 in Linz, Austria. Freelance cultural worker and filmmaker. 1990 diploma graduation at University of Art and Design in Linz, Austria and Co-Founder of DIE FABRIKANTEN. 1991-92 Film & Video advanced course at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London. 1992-93 Media Associate at The Kitchen (Video Archive), New York. Since 2004 head of marketing at the Crossing Europe Film Festival Linz, Austria.

Filmography:

Patrik Huber – Living Dead Clown (2013)

Der Antilopenkuss (2010)

Trivial Europe (2007)

Gallery

Films

Ma, 14'

In the autumn of 2002 and spring 2003 Gerald Harringer shoots the experimental short film “Ma” with the German performance artist Boris Nieslony. It is about a hiking tour from the Czech-Austrian border to Hallstatt. The film interweaves scenes of the journey with impressively minimalist performances and dreams by Boris Nieslony. The film centres on a man, who sets off on a very lonely journey. His path takes him from a deserted village on the former death strip between the Czech Republic and Austria into the mountains. The last part of his hiking tour starts on the expanses of the high plateau on the Dachstein, his journey ends in Hallstatt. As in the Australian aborigines’ paths, which are mapped in the form of songs (“Songlines”) there are dreams showing the way to the nameless protagonist and leading him to impressively symbolic acts and rituals. This border area between dream and reality is also denoted by the film title Ma, being the Japanese word for “gap.”