Focus on Heidrun Holzfeind: Programm 1
In her documentary work, Berlin-based Austrian filmmaker and visual artist Heidrun Holzfeind explores the interweaving of architecture, art and everyday life. In her films, the winner of the Camera Austria Award for contemporary photography questions architectural and social utopias and explores the intersections of history(ies) and identity(ies) associated with them. Holzfeind's works have been presented in renowned institutions worldwide, such as the MOMA in NYC or the Video Art Centre Tokyo, and have been screened at countless international film festivals.
The first part of the programme consists of two of her films, which examine the connections between architecture and life using residential buildings in Rome and Vienna. Corviale, il serpentone focuses on everyday life in a social housing estate on the outskirts of Rome, while Forms in relation to life / Die Wiener Werkbundsiedlung tells of life in an architectural icon of classical modernism in Vienna.
The film programme will be followed by an audience discussion with Heidrun Holzfeind.
Organisation and moderation: Lotte Schreiber
18:00 PROGRAMME 1
Corviale, il serpentone (34 min, 2001)
Commissioned by the Institute for Social Housing in 1972, the 1-kilometre-long building was designed to alleviate the housing shortage of working-class families in Rome and at the same time followed Le Corbusier's idea of housing all the necessary infrastructure of a city in a single building complex. For a variety of reasons, some of the original plans were never realised, even after the first tenants moved in. Heidrun Holzfeind's film focuses on the discrepancy between the utopia of modernist architecture and what actually exists in the everyday lives of the residents.
Forms in relation to life / The Vienna Werkbund Estate (60 min, 2014)
The Vienna Werkbund Estate comprises seventy model houses built between 1930 and 1932. Designed by renowned architects such as Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Adolf Loos and Gerrit Rietveld, these single-family houses were intended to offer maximum comfort in the smallest of spaces. Heidrun Holzfeind went in search of clues and accompanied some of the current residents over the course of a year, interviewing them about their everyday lives in the model houses of the 1930s.
**Installative projection in the loop ‘Saal 2’ in the foyer
Friday market (2009, 8 min)**
Cairo. In a quiet long shot, the camera moves smoothly along abandoned railway tracks over the market.
The event is being realised in cooperation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the KKP Department of Art and Communicative Practice.
Portrait: (c) Heidrun Holzfeind