Thomas Renoldner
Director
Born in 1960 in Linz, he studied psychology and educational theory (1979–83), followed by painting and animation film studies at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna (1989–94). A self-taught filmmaker since his youth, he also works in music, painting, installation, and performance. Renoldner has directed numerous experimental, animated, and documentary films as well as commercials, and is active as a producer, teacher, film historian, festival organiser, and curator for animated films.
Movies3
- Movie8.0
The psychological inner life of a child that has experienced sexual violence. This film essay symbolically tells of violence and the dynamics of hurting in the language of an inoccent child.
Wüstenherzen
1993 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Sabotage acts are committed on the film theaters of a city for no apparent reason. Two secretaries of "Mega Film", which has been damaged by a sabotage act, decide to try to find the saboteurs in order to determine what their motives are.
Das Attentat - Denn sie wissen nicht, was sie tun sollen
The Assault - They didn't know what to do
1989 · 1 votes
Movie5.3DramaA man gazes into the camera, breaths, speaks, and blinks. In playfully formal austerity, Thomas Renoldner explores the borders of the cinematic genre. Real film becomes stop-motion, language a hammering noise staccato. The film draws comical and intellectual potential from the transformation of organic movements and sounds into mechanical ones, from the dissolution of the world into abstraction and rhythm.
Don't Know What
2018 · 3 votes