notes on mazy 6’30’’ by Norbert Pfaffenbichler
cinematography: Martin Putz
dance: Helga Guszner

system of transitions 9’30’’ by Johannes Hammel
cinematography: Johannes Hammel, Jörg Burger
dance: Helga Guszner

how do you want m.? 4’ by Michaela Schwentner
cinematography: Lisa Rastl
dance: Maria Clara Villa-Lobos


choreography: Willi Dorner
music: Heinz Ditsch
producer: Johannes Rosenberger

a navigator film production
Distribution Sixpack
copyright Navigator Film 2003

Digital-Beta/Dolby Stereo
running time: 20:00


What is the human body able to sustain when subjected to devices that record sounds and images? And what can be done with the human body when it tends to evade the representational codes of these devices? MAZY (meaning “labyrinthine”), based on the choreography by Willi Dorner, offers three answers formulated with the dispositives of video, film and computer: videographic marionette, expressive filmic being and computerized trace of movement.
Johannes Hammel’s system of transitions subjects the human body to an extreme test: In constant danger of being swallowed up by a space ending in a black void or becoming stuck to a various surfaces and smacking sounds, an insect-like being undergoes a transformation which is beyond physical reason. In jittery montages the body (again Guszner) extricates itself in convulsive movements, though painlessly, to a point at which the ability of this (or one’s own) body is barely believable.


Festivals (selection)

Bozen/Bolzano - Film Festival 2005
Wien - Dance Screen 2005
Bochumer Videofestival 2005
Regensburg - Kurzfilmwoche 2005
Solothurn - Filmtage 2005
Stuttgart - Filmwinter 2005
Norwegian Short Film Festival 2004
Diagonale, Festival des Österreichischen Films 2003