
Hermann Nitsch
Actor · 1938 – 2022 · Wien, Austria
Hermann Nitsch was an Austrian avant-garde artist, known for his controversial performances and paintings. He was a founding member of the Viennese Actionism movement, which sought to challenge traditional art forms through provocative actions. Nitsch's Orgies Mysteries Theatre involved ritualistic performances that often included the use of animal blood and carcasses, aiming to evoke a primal response from the audience. His work has been both celebrated and criticized for its bold exploration of human instincts and societal taboos.
Movies9
Movie7.8DocumentaryA compilation of over 30 years of private home movie footage shot by Lithuanian-American avant-garde director Jonas Mekas, assembled by Mekas "purely by chance", without concern for chronological order.
Movie8.4DocumentaryA film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
1986 · 10 votes
Movie7.0DocumentaryJonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.
Birth of a Nation
1997 · 4 votes
MovieDocumentaryA portrait of the Austrian avant-garde artist Otto Mühl/Muehl (1925-2013), whose work combined sex, violence, gastronomy and bodily effluence with unbridled abandon.
Becoming Otto
2010
Movie5.0DocumentaryDocumentary satire about a project by Christoph Schlingensief: Ten years after his TV project "Talk 2000", Schlingensief started to work on a new talk show – at least that was what he claimed. But in reality, it was obvious that the pilot episodes he produced would never be broadcasted. Nevertheless, all celebrities from the political and cultural sphere, Schlingensief had requested, accepted his invitation, including the filmmaker Oskar Roehler, the televangelist Jürgen Fliege, the politician Claudia Roth, or the rapper Sido. It is beyond question, that the talk show panel took an unconventional course directly from the start – and was soon threatening to turn into an uproar.
Christoph Schlingensief - Die Piloten
2008 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DocumentaryA retrospective on Hermann Nitsch, Actionist and painter, composer and stage designer. He is one of the most renowned Austrian artists of today and nevertheless still divides the art world as before. Nitsch belongs beside Günter Brus, Otto Mühl and Rudolf Schwawrzkogler to the most important main actors of Vienese Actionism. At the beginning of the sixties he carried out his first 'Actions' in Vienna, which involved several trials and three terms of imprisonment. His main work, the "Orgy Mystery Theatre", inspired by Greek mythology, as well as by Antonin Artaud or Sigmund Freud, has been introducing, building up and carrying on all art forms since this time. The documentary includes a 4-hour overview of his Actions from 1962-2003, as well as an interview from 2005.
Das Aktionstheater Des Hermann Nitsch Zwischen Herkunft Und Zukunft
The Action Art of Hermann Nitsch from Past to Present
2006 · 2 votes
- Movie7.0
Biopic of tragic Schlager singer Drafi Deutscher.
Marmor, Stein und Eisen bricht
1982 · 1 votes
- Movie10.0Documentary
The film is arranged in six chronologically-ordered parts, each filmed in a different location during Oona's third year.
Paradise Not Yet Lost
1979 · 1 votes
- Movie1.0Documentary
HN - Hermann Nitsch
2009 · 1 votes
Series3
TV6.0NewsDocumentaryKulturplatz
2004 · 1 votes
- TVTalk Show
Stöckl
2013
- TV8.7Talk Show
Phettbergs nette Leit Show
1994 · 3 votes