Lisa Truttmann

History

Lisa Truttmann is an artist and filmmaker based in Vienna. She weaves documentary elements into staged settings and essayistic montages, tracing the structures of social, urban and natural landscapes. Trad studied Transmedia Arts at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and received a Fulbright scholarship for her graduate studies in Film/Video at California Institute of the Arts. Her moving images and installations have been shown at venues such as CPH:DOX, Viennale, New York FF Projections, Images Festival Toronto, Jihlava IDFF, Bertha DocHouse London, Ann Arbor FF, Alianza Francesa Buenos Aires, MAK Vienna, and Kunsthalle Project Space. Truttman teaches at the University of Art and Design Linz, the University of Applied Arts Vienna and is a member of the Golden Pixel Cooperative.

Movies

Dear Darkness

Editor

The white, gray and black rooms of a common past and the separate present, the surrounding dreams and fantasies about one‘s own life and the lives of others: when Olga, Yvonne and Manon - three former best friends meet again after twenty years, the facades of their life contracts are removed layer by layer. But they separate again before the résumés collapse.

Characters

Director

Hú Zhǎng Zū writes ancient Chinese poems with water on the ground in Fuxing Park, Shanghai. After a few minutes the characters dry out and disappear. Almost everyday she comes here and practices her handwriting with her friends and colleagues. Together they have lively discussions about the strokes and shapes—amongst each other and with the many spectators. Hú Zhǎng Zū is the only woman within the turmoil of men, and due to her high writing art she is respected and highly admired. I come back to see her often, in order to learn from her and capture these ephemeral moments.

Tarpaulins

Director

As an essay film, 'Tarpaulins' is a minute look at Los Angeles' tiniest inhabitants, termites, and at the same time a zig-zag attempt to grasp the macrocosm of the city's vast landscape.

Untitled

Cinematography

Behrouz Rae cuts to the heart of the matter in the artist’s ongoing series of works dealing with immigration and objective observations.

Babash

Director

“Babash is a parrot. He lives in Los Angeles. Kept by an Iranian family, he speaks mostly Farsi. Sometimes Babash mixes English and Azeri into his conversations. Behrouz Rae has made friends with Babash over the years. The short film Babash is an associative portrait about a special relationship and the domestic surroundings in which it grew. Observing Babash and Behrouz, intervening upon them with color panels, inventing a common language, a focus emerges of a shared misplacement within this genuine friendship.” —Lisa Truttman & Behrouz Rae