Songül Boyraz

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.

Untitled (Judith) explores the human body and its visual representation in space. Feelings such as fear, claustrophobia, speechlessness, and instability arise and reflect the experience of political power structures.

Using the example of the "Schuhplattler" tradition in a small Upper Austrian town, Songül Boyraz examines ritual acts that serve to affirm a collective sense of community while simultaneously generating a mechanism of exclusion.