16mm / Sound / 2023 / 9 min

 

Beginning with the historical painting of an idyllic Morava landscape,
stored in an art depot, the film moves along the border river Morava,
which, with its Austrian-Slovakian section, defines one of Austria's oldest national borders. The film 'relièf Relief' meanders downstream along the seasons, posing questions about image memory, nature and the reverberations of historical circumstances. In doing so, it refers not least
to the notion of contaminated landscape.


A film by Johannes Gierlinger & Mira Klug
Soundmix by Samuel Klug
Music by Frank Rottmann

Supported by Stadt Wien, Land Niederösterreich, Cineart Styria


Festivals, Screenings 

Diagonale Graz 2023, Austria
Cinema Next 2023, Austria 
Festival Inter. de Cine Independiente de La Plata - FestiFreak 2023, Argentina
Antimatter [Media Art], 2023, Canada
Aesthetica SFF - Experimental Film Section 2023, UK (Upcoming)
This Human World FF - Expanded Shorts Section 2023, Austria (Upcoming)

 

 

 

Patrick Holzapfel - Diagonale Graz 2023 
"Johannes Gierlinger and Mira Klug approach the border region between Slovakia and Austria with precisely assembled images that make repressed history visible. Archive photos, landscape shots, and suddenly appearing human poses condense to that urgent certainty that it’s not possible to cast off the past."