Thomas Renoldner :: Szczecin Film Festival 2020

Thomas Renoldner

About the artist

Thomas Renoldner, born 1960 in Austria, since 1976 artistic work in the areas of film, music, installations, performance, etc. Studied education and psychology in Innsbruck. 1980-83 organized productions of experimental theater, film, music at KOMM in Innsbruck. 1983-86 collaborative work with Klaus Reis at the “Galerie im Kino” in Salzburg. Since 1988 studied animated film at the College of Applied Arts in Vienna (Hubert Sielecki). 1989-94 studied in the master class for Experimental Design with Lassnig and Attersee, also at the College of Applied Arts in Vienna. Experimental, animated and fiction films, multi-media work. International committee member of ASIFA, chairman of ASIFA Austria, member of the Austria Filmmakers Cooperative and the artists' group PENSION EXPORT.

Films

Sunny Afternoon, 7'

At first just 16 photos, dating from 1992, of a basically simple movement, combined in rhythmic variations. Each image is allocated to a note of a 12-tone scale, until the visual event of sitting down blends with the musical and becomes comical. Then blue sky, white clouds, black chairs and sensual entanglement in an earworm of a New Orleans tune and a 2D world of 25 frames per second, but full of rotation, reflection, refinement, time-lapse, pixilation, rotoscoping and illusion to the point of self-deception in this extended self-portrait that begins with a childhood photo from 20 years before the film, and ends with the drawing of an old man 20 years after it.