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Johann Lurf
Born April 30, 1982 · Vienna, Austria (age 44)
Johann Lurf is an artist and filmmaker, using the moving image to analyze and restructure space and film. His practice involves observational and documentary filmmaking especially in the field of structural film, as well as an approach to found footage which is strongly oriented on filmic language itself. He was educated as a film director at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Austria.
Known For
One Take for Harun Farocki · 2015One Take for Harun Farocki
2015
MovieDocumentary
26 TAKES FOR HARUN FAROCKI is a film collage made by former students. One minute per take. This film was shot by Arthur Sumereder, Axel Töpfer, Björn Kämmerer, Christoph Kolar, David Pujadas Bosch, Franziska Pflaum, Georg Tiller, Jessyca R. Hauser, Johann Lurf, Josephine Ahnelt, Karo Riha, Mina Lunzer, Michael Poetschko, Monika Rabofsky, Mrova, Nathalie Koger, Patrick Schabus, Peter Muzak, Selma Doborac, and Thomas Lehner.
Endeavour · 2011Endeavour
2011
MovieDocumentary
Johann Lurf‘s film Endeavour slides between documentary, avant-garde film, and science-fiction. This highly singular combination of materials and techniques gives the viewer of Endeavour a feeling of flight, as the film continually evades the gravity of genres and definitive definitions. Lurf uses NASA footage from a day and a night launch of the space-shuttle that follows the booster rockets from take-off to splashdown.
Revolving Rounds · 2024Revolving Rounds
★ 8.02024
Movie
Revolving Rounds is a cyclical film in both form and content. Shot at an agricultural field on the outskirts of Vienna, Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik’s 3D short begins as it ends, tracking a planimetric path alongside three greenhouses as the early morning sun beams across the surrounding lands.
A to A · 2011A to A
★ 3.92011
Movie
Hilarious overview of architectural failures. A road movie that provides new insights, but goes nowhere. Johann Lurf once again reveals his striking talent and his sense of humor. A to A is an extensive catalogue of mediocre architectural objects on roundabouts, competing for attention in the few seconds as they are passed. A unique artist's impression, shot from a spluttering Vespa.
VERTIGO RUSH · 2007VERTIGO RUSH
★ 8.52007
Movie
Johann Lurf's critical examination of the special effect of the "dolly zoom" - first used by Hitchcock in Vertigo - becomes a declaration of love to film and the richness of the cinematic language.
EMBARGO · 2014EMBARGO
★ 1.02014
MovieDocumentary
Night-time, high-tech surveillance video uses circling camera to depict a run-of-the-mill contemporary business park. All is however not what it seems. The mechanical eye penetrates the initial security level unmasking the camouflage tactics of today's arms industry using its own tools.
Forever…Forever · 2026Forever…Forever
2026
MovieDocumentary
The uninterrupted light trail of one year and ten months, condensed down to 20 minutes, filmed on a self-made camera. Daily rhythms accelerate, slowly at first, then more intensely. A structuralist film about transience.
Cavalcade · 2019Cavalcade
★ 5.72019
Movie
A specially designed waterwheel interacts with strobe light, synchronized with two 35mm cameras recording the scenery in stereoscope. Our perception is tricked twice in a single moment: the illusion of the moving image is created in camera, while the illusion of standstill is forced by the strobe light onto the patterns of the waterwheel.
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