Astrid Ofner
Nascimento : , Linz, Austria
História
Born in 1968 in Linz, Astrid Johanna Ofner studied philosophy at Sorbonne Nouvelle III, then film directing and photography at the Vienna Film Academy. She also completed film directing studies at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb). She worked as an actress at Schaubühne Berlin and had the title role in Antigone (1991) by Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet.
Director
Grainy Super 8 images, viridescent light, pale colors, the voice of Sylvie Rohrer reverberating as if transmitted by phone. And a few of Marguerite Duras’ thoughts are conveyed, about what women would need and what men do need.
Herself
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday.
Director
Short film commissioned by the Cinemathèque Suisse to celebrate Jean-Marie Straub's 85th birthday.
Writer
Seguindo o relato autobiográfico de Weiss sobre sua infância e adolescência e sua odisseia da família meia-judaica em toda a Europa nas décadas de 1930 e 1940, o filme estuda cinematograficamente a luta de um jovem pela independência pessoal e sua luta pela vida de um artista como pintor e escritor.
Director
Seguindo o relato autobiográfico de Weiss sobre sua infância e adolescência e sua odisseia da família meia-judaica em toda a Europa nas décadas de 1930 e 1940, o filme estuda cinematograficamente a luta de um jovem pela independência pessoal e sua luta pela vida de um artista como pintor e escritor.
Director
'Tell me on Tuesday', wrote Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena Jesenská. He planned to visit her on Tuesday, stopping in Vienna on the way to Prague. 'It would be most sensible to tell you today where I would like to wait for you, but I would suffocate till we met... Is there in the world, Milena, as much patience as is necessary for me? Tell me on Tuesday.' Kafka's longing to see Milena again, before he was able to spend four days with her in Vienna, was marked by delay, and a transition to written form in letters and diary entries. A trembling before and a drained after frame those days in July, 1920, the particulars of which remain a blank. Astrid Ofner matched Kafka's love letters to Milena with fragile images that permit the existence of that blank space, making it visible rather than filling it in.
Writer
A description of a day in the life of the 'Sisters of Bethania'. The only convent of this small, contemplative congregation of Dominicans in Austria is situated in the rural remoteness of the village of Nestelbach, near Graz (Styria). Today there are eleven sisters living in a former country-castle, following the determination of their order in strict cloisterly regularity. Significant for the mystic-contemplative existence of the Bethanians are the vivid, daily mechanics and the ritualized form of their life, the sequence and the systematics of practice, introspection, (keeping) silence, change and return of the hourly prayers, of the times of daily work and chores in the house and garden and the silent presence in the chapel.
Director
A description of a day in the life of the 'Sisters of Bethania'. The only convent of this small, contemplative congregation of Dominicans in Austria is situated in the rural remoteness of the village of Nestelbach, near Graz (Styria). Today there are eleven sisters living in a former country-castle, following the determination of their order in strict cloisterly regularity. Significant for the mystic-contemplative existence of the Bethanians are the vivid, daily mechanics and the ritualized form of their life, the sequence and the systematics of practice, introspection, (keeping) silence, change and return of the hourly prayers, of the times of daily work and chores in the house and garden and the silent presence in the chapel.
Editor
The film "Into the Emptiness" describes an example of the ritual game of "serfdom" in a "studio for bizarre eroticism". This game comprises a masochistic phantasy in which theguest assumes the role of an obedient slave and servant while the woman employed by the "studio" plays a domina who rules and punishes without mercy.
Writer
The film "Into the Emptiness" describes an example of the ritual game of "serfdom" in a "studio for bizarre eroticism". This game comprises a masochistic phantasy in which theguest assumes the role of an obedient slave and servant while the woman employed by the "studio" plays a domina who rules and punishes without mercy.
Director
The film "Into the Emptiness" describes an example of the ritual game of "serfdom" in a "studio for bizarre eroticism". This game comprises a masochistic phantasy in which theguest assumes the role of an obedient slave and servant while the woman employed by the "studio" plays a domina who rules and punishes without mercy.
Antigone
Uma Antígona destemida, recusando-se a permitir que o corpo de seu irmão assassinado Polinices seja devorado por abutres e cães, desafia o tirano Creonte ao enterrá-lo. Como punição, Creonte ordena que a filha rebelde de Édipo seja sepultada viva, para que não semeie a insurreição entre o povo.
Herself
Documentary about the shooting of Straub's Antigone.
Editor
The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.
Director of Photography
The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.
Writer
The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.
Director
The film tries to retain the memory, the compulsion and the nostalgia of a text by Marguerite Duras.
