Gustav Deutsch (May 19, 1952 - November 2, 2019)


1970-79 Study of architecture, TU Vienna, Dipl.Ing.
1980-83 member of the Medienwerkstatt Wien - video works
since 1983 member of the artist group DER BLAUE KOMPRESSOR (DBK)
since 1984 joint work with Hanna Schimek (D&S)
since 1989 numerous film works
since 1996 member of SIXPACKFILM
since 2002 member of AFTER IMAGE PRODUCTIONS
since 2003 Artistic Director AEGINA ACADEMY (1)

 

Film works on the phenomenology of the medium film, among others: 

TASCHENKINO, 1995; FILM IST.1-6, 1998; FILM IST.7-12, 2002; WELT SPIEGEL KINO Episode 1-3, 2005; FILM IST. a girl & a gun, 2009
International festival participations, awards and prizes, among others:
Prize New Cinema/Viennale 96, for TASCHENKINO and FILM IST MORE THAN FILM, 1996; Main Prize, Ann Arbor Film Festival, for FILM IST.1-6, 2000; Curators Award, Cinema Texas, for FILM IST.7-12, 2002; Best Film, EXiS Mediafestival, Seoul, for WELT SPIEGEL KINO, 2005

Conception, organization and realization of interdisciplinary art projects, etc: 

JARDIN DE WILTZ, 1983 -1987 (2); DIE KUNST DER REISE, Vienna 1986/87 / Frankfurt 1988 / London 1991 (1); ODYSSEY TODAY / THE ATHENS CONFERENCE, Athens, 1995 (1); LICHT BILD - DIE AEGINA AKADEMIE (1), Aegina, 2003 / 2005; CAFE MELANGE, Vienna, 2008 (1)
Award for Visual Arts, BMUK, for DIE KUNST DER REISE, 1992 (1)

Together with: (1) Hanna Schimek (2) The Blue Compressor

 

Filmography (selection):

2010: PRIVATE SANDNES - a kinematographic atlas, video, color/bsw, 30min
2010: VISIONS OF REALITY - pilot film, 35mm, color, 12min
2009: FILM IST. a girl & a gun, 35mm, color, 93min
2006: The Mozarts, 35mm, color, 1min (3)
2005: Crime Scene Migration 1-10, 10 Channel DVD Installation (5)
2005: World mirror cinema, 35mm, b/w, 90min (5)
2002: film is. (7-12), 35mm, color, b/w, 90min (5)
1999: K&K&K, video, color, 12min
1998: film is. (1-6), 16mm, color, b/w, 60min (5)
1996: no comment - minimundus AUSTRIA, 35mm, b/w, 13min (5)
1996: Mariage blanc, 16mm, color, 5min (4)
1996: Film is more than film, Trailer Viennale 96, 35mm, color, b/w, 1min
1996: Pocket cinema the catalog, 16mm, b/w, 30min
1995: Pocket cinema, S8, 100 endless loops, color, Expanded Cinema
1995: Film/spoken/many/languages, Trailer Viennale 95, 35mm, color, 1min (5)
1993: Eyewitnesses of the strangers, 16mm, color, 33min (4)
1992: International end of broadcasting, video installation
1990: World / Time 25812min, 16mm, b/w, 35min (1)
1990: Sat. 29 June / Arctic Circle, 16mm, color, 3min
1990: Adriatic vacation films 1954-68, 16mm, color, b/w, 35min (5)
1988: No je ne regret rien / The sky over Paris, S8 / 16mm, color, 2min
1984: Wossea Mtotom, video, color, b/w, 70min (2)
1982: Asuma, video, color, 20min (2)
1981: Fulkur, Video, b/w, 20min (1)
1981: Rituals, video, b/w, 35min (1)

 

together with:

(1) Ernst Kopper; (2) Gerda Lampalzer and Manfred Neuwirth; (3) Hanna Schimek; 

(4) Mostafa Tabbou; (5) Found Footage