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BY WHAT ITS NEXT TO - Dialogic (Self-)Portraits as Subversive Feminist Strategy

In the tension between self-perception and external perception, dialogical (self-)portraits unfold as multi-layered feminist narrative forms. Animation becomes a space for encounters: between artists, between the inner and outer worlds, between the self and the other. The anniversary program FLICKERING SELVES at the festival—in the cinema or online—shows animated self-portraits that allow us to experience the self in all its ambiguity and change. To complement this, we recommend our two short film programs by Maria Lassnig, in which animation also serves as a means of (self-)representation.

 

“Everything is associations. Everything is altered by what it’s next to,” explains Veronika Soul in INTERVIEW (1979, Caroline Leaf & Veronika Soul). Through their respective animation techniques, the artists Caroline Leaf and Veronika Soul develop a language with which to express their perceptions of one another. “This is a film about two people who make movies. Usually not about themselves.” Through fragmentary dialogue between Leaf and Soul and interwoven artistic practices, a shared portrait emerges.

The term interview refers, on the one hand, to the dialogic mode of working and storytelling; on the other, the filmmakers take it quite literally: a fragmentary interior view of both artists unfolds. In the process, the one portrayed also reveals something about the one portraying; the self takes shape in relation to the other—“everything is altered by what it’s next to.” The boundaries between their respective perceptions, as well as those between inner and outer worlds, begin to blur—through animation’s potential to render everything fluid and in constant motion.

Engaging with and representing the self in relation to those who are close is also a central artistic practice in Maria Lassnig’s Soul Sisters series (created between 1972 and 1979). In this body of work, the artist dedicates herself to women from her close circle, figures who continuously traverse her drawings and paintings. The films trace the protagonists just as much as they trace the filmmaker Lassnig herself, who remains constantly present as a commenting narrator. Her perspective on the women filmed is reflected equally in language and image, opening up a view not only onto Bärbl, Hilde, and Alice, but also onto the seemingly invisible portraitist.

These dialogic (self-)portraits thus position themselves as feminist counter-narratives: moving beyond mere representation, instrumentalization, or external attribution within a male-dominated art and film world.

Den Potenzialen von Animation zur Gestaltung subversiver Selbstportraits verschreibt sich das Filmprogramm Flickering Selves, das Tricky Women Tricky Realities 2026 in den Kinos sowie online weltweit im KINO VOD präsentiert. Die darin versammelten Filme - unter anderem INTERVIEW von Leaf und Soul - präsentierten animierte Selbstportraits nicht nur als ein Mittel, dem Selbst nachzuspüren, sondern erlauben es, das Selbst in seiner Mehrdeutigkeit sowie ständigen Um- und Neuformung zu erfahren. Das Selbst als Subjekt wird ins Material eingeschrieben – greifbar und doch flüchtig, gefestigt und doch nie vollständig fixiert

Text by Lisa Heuschober

Maria Lassnig's film series Soul Sisters, as well as other self-portraits and animated works, will be available online worldwide as part of the pre-screening from February 18 to March 29 at KINO VOD.

Flickering Selves available online from March 15 at 7 p.m. (for 48 hours)


 

Maria Lassnig: (Self)portraits
Mit MARIA LASSNIG: (SELBST)PORTRÄTS zeigen wir 6 Kurzfilme, in denen sich die österreichische Künstlerin Maria Lassnig mit dem (Selbst-)Porträt auseinandersetzt. In Selfportrait porträtiert sich Lassnig mit beeindruckender Zeichentrickmontage und unverwechselbarem Humor. In der Serie Soul Sisters porträtiert die Künstlerin Frauen, die ihr auf verschiedene Weise eng verbunden waren und die auch immer wieder in ihren Zeichnungen und Gemälden auftauchen. Maria Lassnig betrachtet sie mit ihrer Kamera, und sie erwidern den Blick – eine Liebeserklärung an ihre Freundinnen. Beschlossen wird das Programm mit dem autobiografischen Filmessay Stone Lifting – A Selfportrait in Progress, der den oft steinigen Weg einer Künstlerin vom ersten Pinselstrich bis zur Ausstellung ihrer Werke dokumentiert.

 

Maria Lassnig: Animated Films
Mit MARIA LASSNIG: ANIMATIONSFILME zeigen wir 5 Kurzfilme, die die vielschichtige Arbeit der österreichischen Künstlerin Maria Lassnig im Bereich Animation in den 1970er-Jahren zeigen. Die Künstlerin Maria Lassnig lebte von 1968 bis 1980 in New York, wo sie ihre Leidenschaft für das Filmemachen entdeckte. Mit einfachsten Mitteln schuf sie in dieser Zeit richtungsweisende Kurzfilme, in denen sie ihr Konzept der „Body Awareness“ ins Bewegtbild übertrug. Setzt man ihre Filme in Beziehung zu ihren Zeichnungen, Gemälden und Schriftstücken dieser Zeit, so wird deutlich, dass Lassnig auf wiederkehrende Muster ihrer Kunst zurückgegriffen, sich aber gleichzeitig auch immer wieder neu erfunden hat. 

Credits: Header image Maria Lassnig, STONE LIFTING © sixpackfilm

Preliminary Online Program now online

18.02. - 29.03.
25 years of festival history in trailers
Animated Film / / 15 min
Direction: various
We are delighted to be able to accompany the festival online for its anniversary and we are launching 20 festival trailers, which...
We are delighted to be able to accompany the festival online for its anniversary and are throwing ...
18.02. - 29.03.
Maria Lassnig: Animated Films
Short Film Program / / 40 min
Direction: Maria Lassnig
Five short films showcasing the multifaceted work of Austrian artist Maria Lassnig in the field of animation in the 1970s. ...
5 short films that showcase the multifaceted work of Austrian artist Maria...
18.02. - 29.03.
Maria Lassnig: (Self)portraits
Short Film Program / / 38 min
Direction: Maria Lassnig
With MARIA LASSNIG: (SELF)PORTRAITS, we are showing six short films in which Austrian artist Maria Lassnig explores the (self)portrait...
With MARIA LASSNIG: (SELF)PORTRAITS, we are showing six short films in which the Austrian...
18.02. - 29.03.
NOISY RUPTURES
Short Film Program / / 30 min
Direction: various
NOISY RUPTURES: Current animations by Austrian artists Tricky Women Tricky Realities presents a joyful selection of ac...
NOISY RUPTURES: Current animations by Austrian artists Tricky Wome...
Program discounted with the Pass