Gudrun Krebitz /
Gudrun Krebitz /
Author in Focus
I Know You
Gudrun Krebitz, Germany, 2009, digital format (shot on BetaSP), 1.33, B&W, 3'55'', svp
An unanswered telephone, an attempt to dance, a knife in a drawer. I know you – do you know who you are dealing with?
Achill
Gudrun Krebitz, Austria/Germany, 2012, DCP, 1.85, B&W /colour, 9', svp
A bizarre visual discourse that seems to tell the story of a boy and a girl meeting in a bar. Through the mixed medium of animation and live-action, we understand why this particular girl is so difficult to talk to.
Shut Up Moon
Gudrun Krebitz, Austria/UK, 2014, DCP, 16:9, B&W, 4'10'', svp
It is difficult to fit in, especially when you are new in town. A hand-drawn animated short full of awkwardness, fun, an imaginary friend, and the things that keep you up at night while your mind plays you a best-of compilation of today´s conversations.
Exomoon
Gudrun Krebitz, UK/Austria, 2016, DCP, 16:9, colour, 6'19'', svp
"Because she's been alone for a long time and there's no one else, she might as well live on the moon." This film piece is about existence, about being present and in the ´now´ of the moment, which the film conveys as it seamlessly glides through various states of day and night.
The Magical Dimension
Gudrun Krebitz, Germany/Austria, 2018, DCP, 1.37, colour, 7', svp
A journey through Graveyards, unknown waters, poems, dreams and wishes, telling us that what we long for is waiting for us and we can meet it in our very own underworld.
ECHODROME (Nighttime at the Well) (ECHODROM (Nachts im Bach)
Gudrun Krebitz, Austria/Germany, 2022, DCP, 16:9, colour, 17', svp
With the sound of rippling water, we submerge in a blue visual cosmos of a bathtub and wet universe. A red curtain introduces the play of fire. Two worlds that magically interfuse. This animated collage is a multivocal underwater meditation on fear, loneliness, and the power of imagination. We are not alone in the dark, you will see!
Gudrun Krebitz was born in 1983 in Graz. She is an artist and filmmaker whose work focuses on experimental animation, installation, and single image drawing. Her drawings, narrative-based short films, and installations have been screened and presented at exhibition spaces and film festivals worldwide, including the Berlinische Galerie, ICA London, Museum of Contemporary Art Frankfurt, MUMOK Vienna, London Short Film Festival, International Film Festival Oberhausen, Annecy International Animated Film Festival and the American Documentary film festival Palm Springs. Her films have won main awards including the Grand Prix at Tampere, the Jury Prize at Short Film Festival Hamburg, the Golden Horseman at Filmfest Dresden as well as Jury Prizes at the Poetry Film Festivals in Berlin and Vienna. She received the Prize for an Experimental Animation by the “Künstlerhaus Wien/ Artist House Vienna” for EXOMOON and was a holder of scholarships by the German Academic Exchange Programme, the Film/ Video Artist Programme of the Berlin Senate as well as the Stiftung Kunstfonds- Art Foundation. She graduated from the Royal College of Art in London in 2015 and studied Animation at the University of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. Krebitz currently lives and works in Berlin. (Photo: sixpackfilm)
We thank the Austrian Cultural Forum in Ljubljana for their help in organizing this programme.