Filme von Josef Dabernig, 2013–2024
Program 1
All films (except *Panorama*): Direction, screenplay, editing: Josef Dabernig; cinematography: Christian Giesser; sound design: Michael Palm
*Panorama* (Diagonale Trailer) Josef Dabernig, AT 2013; animation: Karina Kern. DCP, color, 1 min
*Zlaté Piesky Rocket Launch* AT 2015; music: Kaliber 44; cast: Otto Dabernig, Xaver Rhomberg, Anna Dabernig, Josef Dabernig Jr., Josef Dabernig, Isabella Hollauf, Kathrin Rhomberg. 35mm, b/w, 10 min
*Stabat Mater* AT/CH/DE 2016; music: Christoph Herndler; text: Bruno Pellandini; voice: Andreas Patton; cast: Immacolata Giuseppa Cozza, Josef Dabernig, Otto Dabernig, Wolfgang Dabernig, Emma Gruber, Sabine Gruber, Isabella Hollauf, Gaetano Milone, Markus Scherer, Kathrin Schulz, Laurence Schulz. 35mm, b/w, 16 min. German
*Heavy Metal Detox* AT 2019; music: Christoph Herndler; cast: Kristina Balcanovic, Josef Dabernig, Cornelia Schintlmeister, Josef Schintlmeister. 35mm, b/w, 12 min
*All the Stops* AT 2020; music: Christoph Herndler; cast: Ingeburg Wurzer, Gregor Schmoll, Zsolt Szalai, Wolfgang Dabernig, Susanne Szalai-Urbanek, Isabella Hollauf, Gyöngyi Bata, Josef Dabernig, Paula Szalai, Flora Szalai, Laura Szalai, Anita Toth, Christoph Herndler. DCP (from Super 16mm), color, 16 min
*Pastry Friday* AT 2022; Cast: Jiří Valoch, Jana Písaříková, Ondřej Chrobák, Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schöllhammer, Markéta Lisá, Filip Cenek, Jolana Chalupová, Štefan Kurbel, Ivana Hrončeková, Kurt Fellinger, Isabella Hollauf, Josef Dabernig, Dobroslav Chrobák, Emilie Chrobáková, Jakub Cenek, Matěj Cenek, René Chalupová, Lore Dabernig, Otto Dabernig. 35mm, b/w, 12 min
Lacrimosa AT 2024 Text: Bruno Pellandini; Voice: Johanna Orsini; Cast: Anni Dabernig, Lore Dabernig, Otto Dabernig, Elin Kruckenberg, Vanja Kruckenberg, Olaf Möller. DCP, b/w, 11 min. German
Dabernig’s recent works reveal his gift for tragicomic observation in a state of refined perfection. *Zlaté Piesky Rocket Launch* ironically contrasts a children’s toy rocket launch and an adult fascination with simulations—set in a run-down Bratislava hotel and accompanied by Polish hip-hop—while *Pastry Friday* depicts a seemingly uneventful post-COVID Friday afternoon in a low-rise Moravian pastry shop, melancholically drowning in the rain. Such registers are familiar in Dabernig’s work, yet he is equally capable of taking a completely different approach, as demonstrated by the black-and-white study of a dental visit, *Heavy Metal Detox*: the discomfort of having fillings removed, explored within one’s own mouth. (C.H.)
In the presence of Josef Dabernig