European Short Films Competition
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Dad’s Stick
Parasite
Yellow Fever
Lay Bare
Sunny Afternoon
Velocity
Reality 2.0
Along the Way
Swan Song
Voidov
The Toxic Camera
Journal
Primate Cinema: Apes as Family
Order of Service
Da Vinci
Cold Open
I had no other choice than to jump from one pile to the other, as there was nothing in between
The Shores of an Island I Only Skirted
The Verdict
The Day Has Conquered the Night
Workers Leaving the Factory (Again)
Hollywood Movie
Tokyo Giants
Think Pink
The Tiger’s Mind
1978 the 231st Day
A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade)
Reconaissance
Storia
Eris
Gonda
Dry Standpipe
Ritournelle
Exterior Extended
Not Blacking Out, Just Turning the Lights Off
Deep Red
The Experimental Forest
Gonda
Ursula Mayer
UK 2012
/ 30’
Gonda is a cinematic response to Ayn Rand's play Ideal. The director takes a critical look at revolutionary modernism, whose influence is visible in society today. Her performative experiment grabs the attention with a polyphony of overlapping and interspersed pictures and sounds.
Patryk Tomiczek
Ursula Mayer
Ursula Mayer was born in Austria and is currently living and working in London. From 1990–1996 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. She has presented her work at individual and joint exhibitions. Her projects have been on show at festivals in Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Locarno and Tokyo.
Selected filmography
2002 Goldflames Out In the Sky (short)
2004 Acoustic Mirror (short)
2006 Villa Mairea (short)
2008 The Lunch in Fur (short)
2012 Gonda (short)
Prepared by:
Patryk Tomiczek
Credits
director
Ursula Mayer
screenplay
Maria Fusco
cinematography
Ursula Mayer
editing
Ursula Mayer
sound
Ursula Mayer
cast
Valentijn de Hingh
production
Flamin, Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network BMUVK, Austria and The Elephant Trust
sales
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language
English