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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Billy Roisz

Billy ROISZ (1967, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. She does video and sound experiments in performance, installation and cinema. She executes her projects solo or in collaboration with experimental musicians. The short film Bring Me the Head of Henri Chrétien! (2013), co-directed with her life partner Dieter Kovačič, is part of Vertical Cinema, a compilation programme consisting of ten experimental films on 35mm celluloid made for projection on a monumental vertical screen. She was also a co-organiser and programmer of REHEAT Festival.

Filmography

(all short) Oberflch.avi (1999), Smokfrags (2001), Katapila (2002), My Kingdom for a Lullaby #4 (2002), Bling (2002), i/o (2003), -2.20 (2003), Broadway (2004), My Kingdom for a Lullaby #2 (2004), Sources (2004), BYE BYE ONE (2005), AVVA:ragtag (2006), Elesyn 15.625 (2006), Not Still (2008), Tilt (2008), Close your Eyes (co-dir. 2009), BrRRMMMWHEee II (2010), Chiles en Nogada (2011), Zounk! (2012), Bring Me the Head of Henri Chrétien! (co-dir. 2013), darkroom (co-dir. 2014), THE (co-dir. 2015), Toutes directions (co-dir. 2017), Scary Objects (co-dir. 2017), Paris (2017), Who’s Afraid of RGB (2019), Styx (2019), AQUAMARINE (co-dir. 2019), SURGE (co-dir. 2019), TWIXT (co-dir. 2019, performance), quarantine carousel (2020), do they speak color ? (2022), HAPPY DOOM (2023), The Garden Of Electric Delights (2024)

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Billy Roisz op IFFR

  • The Garden of Electric Delights

    Billy Roisz | 12' | Austria | World premiere

    A tantalising, electric interpretation of Bosch’s iconic triptych, reaching from paradisiacal allure to hellish distortion.
  • Lunar Dust

    Billy Roisz | 30' | Austria | World premiere

    A live performance with video, electronics, microphones, cymbals, and turntables by Billy Roisz and dieb13.
  • elesyn 15.625

    Billy Roisz | 10' | Austria | International premiere

    Abstract video that uses elementary building blocks of the signal to achieve a beautiful synthesis of image and sound.
  • Tilt

    Billy Roisz | 8' | Austria | World premiere

    Forget the spotless promises of HD and Blu-ray. Tilt goes back to the basis of electronic picture and sound and looks for the boundaries of…
  • My Kingdom for a Lullaby # 4

    Michaela Grill, Billy Roisz | 12' | Austria | -

    Feedback, various sound spectrums and a live performance of ‘visual music’, translated into digital images in a wide range of audiovisual forms. Great concentration is…
  • Blinq

    Billy Roisz | 7' | Austria | International premiere

    Billy Roisz plays with the relationship between sound and image by manipulating electronic fragments, feedback loops and electroacoustic impulses.
  • Bring Me the Head of Henri Chrétien!

    Billy Roisz, dieb13 | 9' | Austria | International premiere

    There’s no sentiment as bold as the one in a duel shot in cinemascope, no emotional drop as high as the one in a vertical…
  • TWIXT

    Billy Roisz, dieb13 | 45' | Austria | -

    Roisz & Kovačič delve live into their AV archives. The collision between concrete and abstract images leads to a synaesthetic media meltdown.
  • Toutes directions

    Billy Roisz, dieb13 | 13' | Austria | World premiere

    The ultimate road movie is a hypnotising audiovisual trip by Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovacic, scored by Radian.
  • Sources

    Billy Roisz | 12' | Austria | International premiere

    During a sound check, musicians eliminate feedback frequencies and humming cable sounds. Microphones are set in the ideal position. Billy Roisz has made both audio…