Focus on: Albert Sackl

With Albert Sackl, one of the most uncompromising representatives of contemporary analog film art takes center stage. In his artistic practice, he draws on the avant-garde of the 20th century and extends it through individual experimental setups in which he brings the mechanical conditions of the cinematic apparatus into precise, poetic dialogue with himself and others.

The three films, created over a period of two decades, form a trilogy connected on multiple levels for Albert Sackl. Within the framework of Focus On, they are presented together in this form for the first time.

From Inside; From Outside (20 min, 16mm, no sound, 2006)

Albert Sackl’s body moves through a black box in stop motion. Front and rear views interlock through film projection to form a perspectivally impossible being that ultimately leaves the studio space and enters the outdoors. The exterior becomes interwoven with the interior.

Outdoors (23 min, 16mm, no sound, 2011)

Here, camera and body encounter one another within the landscape of a Nordic summer. In an analog-linear process, the filmmaker confronts a metrically predefined structure with the unpredictable rhythms of nature.

On the Phone Milena Fina (30 min, 16mm, no sound, 2025)

In his most recent work, Albert Sackl once again appears as the protagonist—this time, however, not alone. With Milena Fina, a partner enters the frame. Structurally, the film is shaped by a dual principle: two people, always two exposed frames from two laterally offset viewpoints. The resulting almost stereoscopic, hypnotic effect sets bodies and spaces into vibration, connecting interior and exterior worlds.

Film still from: On the Phone Milena Fina (2025)

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