Heidrun Holzfeind

Birth : , Lienz, Austria

History

Heidrun Holzfeind is an Austrian-born artist and filmmaker currently based in Umeå, Sweden. Interested in how architecture interacts with people’s everyday lives, Holzfeind questions imminent architectural and social utopias, exploring interrelations between history and identity, individual histories and political narratives of the present.

Movies

the time is now.

Director

the time is now. is a film portrait of the Japanese shamanic improvisation duo IRO. The couple Shizuko and Toshio Orimo have worked together since 1981. Their music, their activism in the peace and anti-nuclear movement, and their free-spirited way of life reflect an animist and pantheistic worldview that rejects commercialism in all its forms.

Black September

Camera Operator

A low budget dramatization of 1972 Munich Olympics hostage crisis combining appropriated footage and re-enactments.