The drawings and paintings by Dietmar BREHM (1947, Linz) have been shown at many exhibitions in Austria and abroad. His filmography consists of about seventy Super 8 films and several 16mm films.<br /><br /><br />

Dietmar Brehm

Spring clean by a film-maker. Twenty-one old films dusted down.

IFFR 1998

Mix 2 (21 Szenen 1997), 

main programme short

Mix 2 (21 Szenen 1997)

Looking at dirty pictures; porn films dating from those days have been changed under the skilled hands of experimental film maker Grehm into responsible yet still stimulating art.

IFFR 2007

Selektion, 

Still 16

Selektion

IFFR 1993

Blicklust, 

Main Programme

Blicklust

IFFR 1994

5 Kurzfilme 1989, 

Master Homemovies

5 Kurzfilme 1989

Found-footage images of a mask, a veiled woman's face and a skeleton in a flowing hypnotic cut.

IFFR 1999

Organics, 

Organics

In a stylish experiment, a woman is dissected by looks. About discomfort.

IFFR 2003

Verdrehte augen, 2. version, 

Verdrehte augen, 2. version

Experimental film maker rediscovers the Kuleshov effect. From a porn film, he cuts a western and vice versa.

Peng-Peng, 

Peng-Peng

Perfect day, 

Perfect day

IFFR 1996

Party, 

Party

Sombre sexual encounters. Everything that moves can be used.

Korridor, 

Korridor

Recent transformations of everyday life and beyond by one of the great masters of the experimental Austrian film.

IFFR 2001

Mix-4 (1996-1999), 

Mix-4 (1996-1999)

New mix of older 8mm material, tending towards abstraction, by and about the artist Brehm himself.

Mix-3 (1983-1999), 

Mix-3 (1983-1999)

Badezimmer, 

Badezimmer

Macumba, 

Macumba

You spend an afternoon playing with your Super-8 camera with friends as if you are Godard or Warhol. Twenty five years later, you take your films out of the drawer and see the early days of cinema. A silent film from the time of Lou Reed.

IFFR 2004

Huh Huh 1976 - 78, 

Cinema Regained

Huh Huh 1976 - 78

Associative new context for earlier fragments from films by the well-known Austrian film maker.

IFFR 2005

Echo-Echo, 

Short!

Echo-Echo

Back in time with a voyeuristic look at the British porn film Peeping Tom.

Peep-2, 

Peep-2

Slowly moving abstract figures in which only a practiced eye can see the original porn.

Zentrale 2, 

Zentrale 2

Possibly a family scene, with father, mother and child, continuously interrupted by lightning flashes and a disquieting silence.

Blitze, 

Ex Voto: Mapping the Heart

Blitze

3-kronen, 

3-kronen

Pool, 

Pool

Insch (2), 

Insch (2)

Brehm himself restored (in a very free way) several of his 8mm films from the early eighties. Reborn films.

IFFR 1997

Perfekt 1-3, 

Perfekt 1-3

IFFR 2025
30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025