Elemental Alchemy – Experimental Cinema Screening Event

Date: May 9, 2026, 20:00; Doors open: 19:30

Venue: Filmkoop Wien, Komödiengasse 8 1020 Wien

Curated by Bori Máté (FWF-ESPRIT Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Organized in collaboration with Markus Maicher (Filmkoop Wien; Doctoral Student, Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna)

Program

This screening is part of the postdoctoral research project Elemental Alchemy in Experimental Cinema. The 60-minute program brings together photochemical films that open pathways to alchemical and cosmic imagination by mobilizing elemental forces. Moving between abstract and more figurative states, the works mirror primordial conditions of matter and life as they gradually take form.

The screening will be preceded by a short introduction and brief contextual remarks on the films and artists, and followed by a Q&A session with invited guests. Filmmakers Cosma Grosser, Markus Maicher and Stefanie Weberhofer will be present, with Lallita Bliss (a.k.a. Cherry Kino) joining online.

Selected works will be accompanied by a live musical performance by members of the Punctum Collective: Evgeny Ignashev (electronics), Eirini Krikoni (violin), and Jake Mann (clarinet, bass clarinet).

Dissolved (Aufgelöst) (Stefanie Weberhofer, 2015, 4:00)

A Study in Natural Magic (Charlotte Pryce, 2013, 3:00, 16 mm)

Das Schöpfwerk (Jürgen Reble, 2013, 11:00)

TLECAXITL (Colectivo Los Ingrávidos, 2021, 9:13)

Lunar Almanach (Malena Szlam, 2013, 4:00, 16 mm)

Ultima/Prélude (Giulia Grossmann, 2025, 13:30)

Salt (Cherry Kino, 2013, 7:48)

Wasteland No. 3: Moons, Sons (Jodie Mack, 2021, 5:00)

BLÄTTER IM HERBST (Leaves in Autumn) (Markus Maicher, 2018, 4:01, 16 mm)

Matter in Place II (Cosma Grosser, 2023, 2:13)