"crouching" presented at Webster Vienna

At an internal preview event at Webster University Vienna Holger Lang presented his projection-video-loop "crouching" on November 19th 2007. A large crowd of students and many guests from outside the University saw the presentation.

"XVI Ante Gaudium" Premiere
at Schikaneder Kino


On May 29th 2007 the compilation "XVI Ante Gaudium",
containing experimental films by Holger Lang premiered at the Schikaneder Kino in Vienna. Only two of the 16 pieces had been shown previously. The audience participated in a long discussion about the work after the screening. The segments of this presentation were: Ritual Island - 1996 (5 min),
a big walking thought - 2004 (5 min),
and my self - 1993 (4 min),
animals revisited - 1992/2002 (2 min),
blanc - 1991 (2 min),
Hutman - 1998 (4 min),
12 Picture Postcards From Vienna - Wien - Vienne - 2000 (10 min),
The Taste of Paradise - 1992 (4 min),
subconscient.4.4 - 2004 (5 min),
Green - 1994 (5 min),
2000 burials - 2000 (7 min),
departure on a red raft - 1993 (10 min),
level.8 - 2004 (8 min),
velvet spring - 1997 (3 min),
Four Songs - 1999 (19 min),
Island Meditation - 1997 (5 min) .



"holly wood" presented at
Vienna Independent Shorts
Filmfestival 2007


Public premiere of "holly wood", a collaboration of Holger Lang
and Elisabeth Zoe Knass. After winning the 2007 internet competition of the "www.kurzfilme.at" website the 3 minute
long experimental video was presented in the "Public/Relations - Panorama" program of the VIS - Vienna Independent Shorts
2007 Filmfestival.
The audience showed strong interest in the film during
a discussion with all filmmakers after the screening.



Videoarchive includes several films


On March 9th the "Ursula Blickle Videoarchiv" located at the "Kunsthalle Wien" in the MuseumsQuartier opened and includes six films by Holger Lang. The archive is accessible free of charge at the MQ location in the basement of the Kunsthalle, at the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna and at the archive's main office in Germany. Since the opening about 1000 audio-visual pieces are viewable at the archive and include the films "a big walking thought", "Actual Reality", "digo" "Experimeter", "Fluechtige Kreuzung" and "level.8" by Holger Lang.



"art_clips" released at ZKM


The "ZKM - Zentrum fuer Kunst und Medientechnolgie" in Karlsruhe, Germany, released a 3 disc DVD set titled "art_clips" on January 13th 2007 and presented 90 selected video art pieces from Austria, Switzerland and Germany. All clips were showing at an exhibition at the ZKM Medienmuseum from January 14th 2007 to March 25th 2007. Holger Lang's film "Fluechtige Kreuzung" is part of the Austrian selection in this compilation.