SP-01   Retrospective Phil Mulloy & Vera Neubauer

Introduction:

Born in Wallasey, England, Phil Mulloy began his artistic career studying painting at the Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication and at the Royal College of Art. He began experimenting with animation in 1998.

Without inhibition, Mulloy attacked conservative sensibilities and criticized the inequality and false benevolence of contemporary lifestyles with drastic, iconoclastic images. Thanks to his love of the absurd and well-developed sense of humor, however, comic relief is never absent in his work.

His very first film Eye of the Storm (1989) is a feisty manifest against existing sexual and social behavior patterns. The six-part series Cowboys (1991-1992) earned the English eccentric national and international attention. Mulloy takes the western genre one step further, showing male rival instinct and greed escalating in violence. His masterpiece The Sound of Music (1993), a shocking and provoking portrayal of the deep-seated sexual and class-based politics of a random, violent culture established him as the master of grotesque satire. In Ten Commandments (1993-1996), Mulloy pushes the principle further, combining the surreal with the social and revealing God as weak, indifferent and very fallible. The Christies, a series in ten episodes, is Mulloy*s most recent work.

Mulloy*s films have won numerous awards at festivals worldwide including in Berlin, Melbourne, San Francisco, Krakau, Tampere and Zagreb.

Vera Neubauer was born in Prague and studied art in Prague, Düsseldorf and Stuttgart, and in 1969 began film studies at the respected Royal College of Art in London. She combined her artistic work with teaching in Germany and abroad until 1999.

Neubauer*s animation is a synthesis of the mystic and banal natures of everyday life, often presented from a critical and feminist point of view. Her work distinguishes itself through innovative animation techniques and experimental narrative structures. She utilizes a number of different techniques and media, cut-outs, object animation, negative images and scratches the film material. Her most recent work is the result of various experiments with yarn. Brutality and shock-effects disarmed by a simple sketch style and parody create a unique atmosphere of suspense in her films.

The uncompromising and original oeuvre of her 23 projects (to date) fascinate critics, and audience reactions range from irritation to uncurbed enthusiasm. Neubauer*s work has been shown at a number of photo exhibits worldwide, and awarded in cities including Dresden, Ankara, Melbourne, Montr�al and Oberhausen.

Screening :

03. 11. 2005 at 22:00 h, Hackesche Höfe Filmtheater 
05. 11. 2005 at 18:00 h, Hackesche Höfe Filmtheater 

THE 12 FILMS OF THE PROGRAM:

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