The borderlines of the screen for projection

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1982 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: This film is an example of a part of Renoldner's film work that is not based on animation. Even before he began studying art, he shot a series of experimental films on Super-8. Many of them often analyze fundamental parameters of film art, in this case the question of the relationship between film and reality. "Filming means cutting out. The ability of the camera to cut out parts of reality is limited by the boundaries of the camera frame."

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Sound: Thomas Renoldner

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Ein Schlag zuviel

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1989 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: In this first film, which Renoldner made at the beginning of his studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, he addresses the destruction of nature by humans. In addition to script, direction and the hand-painted animation, he also composed the film music. He was also the musician who recorded the essentially improvised film music on multitrack tape using bass recorder and electric guitar.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Academy of Applied Arts Vienna e Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: Thomas Renoldner

Sound: Thomas Renoldner

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Struktur Auflösung

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1989 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: Two main interests of Renoldner’s audiovisual art work manifest themselves in "Structure Resolution". On the one hand, this film expresses his strong interest in music and a way of working in which image and sound match each other exactly. On the other hand, this shows his great interest in dealing with elementary opposites, in this case geometric rigor and painterly gesture. Renoldner is also the filmmaker and music composer for this film, in which he used music software for the first time.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Academy of Applied Arts Vienna e Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Sound: Thomas Renoldner

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Würfel (Cubes)

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1991 Duration: 2 mins.

Synopsis: Renoldner found in Vienna a puzzle made of six cubes, which can represent six different means of transport - car, bus, train, boat, overseas ship, plane - at a flea market and was simply amazed by the look. He then decided to use it for a music video by the pop band “MARIA”, consisting of three friends of his. In this rhythmically very complex object animation, two of the cubes always follow the accents of one of the three instruments: guitar, keyboard and drums.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: MARIA (Maz Lauterer, Andi Haller, Tini Juen)

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Bunt (Colorful)

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1991 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: Renoldner made this film the year his first daughter, Laura, was born, with the idea of abstract images in the mind of a growing child. 500 watercolors were created from 20 basic images and transitions between them, which were shot with masked multiple exposure on 16mm film. This strictly rhythmic arrangement of the film sequences formed the basis of a minimalist music composition, in which four tones at different heights were recorded with a bass recorder, and then were applied to the film.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: Thomas Renoldner

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Lonely Cowboy in 1992

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1992 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: This is one of Renoldner’s rare “classical cartoon” films. He made it on the occasion of the 500-year anniversary of America’s so-called discovery by Christopher Columbus. His commentary to it was to imagine what a cowboy would discover in America in 1992.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: Maz Lauterer, Thomas Renoldner

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Rhythmus 94 (Rhythm 94)

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1994 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: This film is a piece of music. The sounds, their pitches, their relationships to one another and especially the (poly)rhythmic structures can be read as a score for the organization of images and vice versa. The film title refers to early visual music (Hans Richter: Rhythm 21) and develops from realism (starting with a homage to E. Muybridge) to digital abstraction. The very complex multiple exposure on 35mm film (ultimately 64 layers) was created by animation camera specialist Manfred Haspel.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Academy of Applied Arts Vienna, Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: Thomas Renoldner

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

MTV Jingle: CUBES

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1998

Synopsis: For this entirely hand-made commercial based on the music video ‘Wu?rfel’, three different sets of cubes were built. Christof Dienz contributed an outstanding musical composition, performed by the music group „Die Knödel“ (‘The Dumplings’).

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: MTV Europe

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: Christof Dienz, musicians: Die Knoedel

Distribution: Thomas Renoldner

Age Classification: M/12

Sabine Groschup: I'll always

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2000 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: ‘I'll Always’ (2000) is a colorful, sensual tale of passion, love, attachment, assurances and promises, projected on 2889 envelopes in the form of drawings, in writings and song.

Credits:

Direction: Sabine Groschup

Writers: Sabine Groschup

Production: Sabine Groschup & Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Sabine Groschup

Music: Laura Pegoraro, Martin Lauterer

Sound: Martin Lauterer

Distribution: Sabine Groschup

Age Classification: M/12

Martin ANIBAS: Pique Nique

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2001 Duration: 5 mins.

Synopsis: Regarding ‘Pique Nique’ (2001) by Martin Anibas, some believe that the hand-painted film captures aspects of the experimental 1970es films from the West Coast of the USA. His expressive paintings are subject to permanent metamorphosis and appear like a mixture of naturalistic landscape and abstraction. Thomas Renoldner follows the permanent, flowing transition of images in his musical composition, which is made up of several layers of rhythmic tracks.

Credits:

Direction: Martin Anibas

Writers: Martin Anibas

Production: Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Martin Anibas

Music: Thomas Renoldner

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Mozart Party '06

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2006 Duration: 1 mins.

Synopsis: There is hardly another artist whose name is exploited so excessively and in such a variety of ways around the world. Mozart gave his name to airports, ski resorts, hotels and cafés, and to numerous products in the food industry. ‘Mozart Party’06’ (2006) is a caricature of this permanent exploitation of Mozart. It was commissioned – among 25 other artists films - on the occasion of the Mozart anniversary year in 2006 and was shown on Austrian television twice.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Wiener Mozartjahr 2006

Animation: Heimo Wallner

Music: Andi Haller

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Sunny Afternoon

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2012 Duration: 7 mins.

Synopsis: ‘SUNNY AFTERNOON’ (2012) questions the conventions of two very different film genres: rigid avant-garde film and playful music video. The first part uses found footage strategies and explores the many possible variations of the limited source material of just 16 photos of a simple movement. The second part enjoys intuitive workflow, allowing for downright cheesy sequences such as time-lapse clouds in blue sky or playful experiments with rotating black chairs. The music also refers to typical clichés of the two film genres.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: Andi Haller, Thomas Renoldner

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Dont Know What

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2019 Duration: 8 mins.

Synopsis: Using single frame editing, primarily focused on sound, the realistic film image transforms into a surreal, structuralist and finally abstract film. Language is transformed into music, voice turns into a drum machine, and the body becomes a surreal fantasy with a dozen of arms and impossibly wild movements. ‘DONT KNOW WHAT’ (2018) combines elements of mainstream cinema, like an entertaining dramaturgy with strategies of avant-garde cinema, like reduction of the imagery, extreme short-cut technique and sound experiments.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Renoldner

Writers: Thomas Renoldner

Production: Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Thomas Renoldner

Music: Thomas Renoldner

Sound: Andi Haller

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12