Fernsehfilme II
About the event
Ulrich Seidl also made programmes for Austrian television. Bilder einer Ausstellung and Der Busenfreund feature a typical Seidl ‘character’: René Rupnik, a man who has set up his own unique system for living. An eccentric to the outside world perhaps, but for Seidl an authentic individual. Compilation of documentaries made by Ulrich Seidl for television – in the unique Seidl style – in the nineties, where ‘ordinary men’ get to speak. But is the ‘ordinary Austrian’ really all that ordinary?
In Bilder Einer Ausstellung (1996), visitors to an exhibition talk candidly about their relationship to modern and contemporary art; the tone is radically different from the impenetrable and often hilarious jargon used by the art world (‘international art speak’). Seidl is interested mainly…
