In Person: Ulrich Seidl

In an in-depth discussion with Ulrich Seidl, to whom Eye is dedicating an exhibition, this evening you can find out you ever wanted to know about this Austrian director. During this artist talk, we’ll see clips from his provocative, caring films. In his unsettling films, Ulrich Seidl confronts us with the lives of a number of seemingly ordinary individuals; people searching for love, happiness and affection in their own ways, striving to make something of life in a late-capitalist society in which meaning has been replaced by consumerism.

Seidl has also filmed Austrian basements, a safari, the world inhabited by models, the sex tourism industry, a schlager singer in Rimini in winter – everywhere seeing love go unfulfilled. In his…