28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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steifheit 1–3 / 7

steifheit 1–3 / 7

director: Albert Sackl
original title: steifheit 1–3 / 7
country: Austria
year: 2018
running time: 9 min.

synopsis

Long term observation of masturbation. Sackl, who uses extreme methods to explore ways of depicting the human body, used a time-lapse camera to record himself masturbating once every ten years, compiling the individual frames and films into a radical ascetic film showing aging and physical transformation.

biography

Albert Sackl (1977), one of Austria’s most controversial contemporary filmmakers, studied philosophy and art history at the University of Vienna and visual art in Frankfurt under Peter Kubelka. A repeated motif in his work his the depiction of his own naked body. In 2008, the Ji.hlava IDFF showed his previous film in this series 2008 Stiffness I+II.

more about film

director: Albert Sackl
editing: Albert Sackl
Ministerstvo kultury
Fond kinematografie
Creative Europe Media
Město Jihlava
Kraj Vysočina
GEMO
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