Tim Sharp

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range of different backgrounds, ranging from animated, experimental and short film to documentaries and feature films. The result is a multi-facetted sampler of diverse formal and contextual positions with regard to Mozart’s person and his influence on today’s society, art and culture. The contributions run the gamut from experimental-conceptual statements through socio-critical and documentary observations to pithy short feature films.

A collection of images captured all over the world. Connected by flowing water, in seas, rivers, and lakes. Accompanied by Tim Sharp's voice, which continually falls into rhyme. In the same way that the images rhyme, letting the water return image after image. But also the dead of history and the ecological destruction of the present. The cinematic image itself becomes water and a mirror of a world on the brink of catastrophe, ready to melt away. A fluid film with fierce irony.

Tim Sharp turns to places. In our world, these are always shaped and restricted, colonized and exploited. In other words, private property, which Sharp declares war on in image and word.