Michael Pilz Movies

A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.

In this evocative work, we hear and see the interactions of a man and a woman in a pristine forest. We gain a sense of intimacy with them and nature....

If the mind is silent, and is willing to accept what happens, there are some very receptive happenings. So there is actually nothing to fear.

Karl Prantl, the main character in the film, is one of the leading figures of Austrian art. As a sculptor - as one who shapes stones - he has...

A group of young people become involved with the kidnap of a local politician with the aim of halting construction work on a nearby nuclear power...

For one night Michael Pilz rides through New York with a remarkable taxi driver, Jeff Perkins. Sitting by his side, looking and listening, sometimes...

"Deep is the doctrine of events as arising from causes, and it looks deep too. It is through not understanding this doctrine, through not penetrating...

Found footage filmed by Russian soldiers in Vienna in 1945. On the soundtrack is “ The Flat Foot Floogee” with a “Floy Floy,”...

Gabriele Hochleitner's camera on Michael Pilz in Khosrow Sinai's – his friend's – home in Teheran, October 2007, during her shootings for...

In a long, slow, silent procession, they pass by the viewer: the stone-hewn witnesses of a battle that took place more than a century and a half ago...

Originally intended as a four-room media installation, allowing the viewer to "live" the film, come and go, Michael Pilz's essay about South Styrian...

An essay film or an ethnographic documentary, contemplating the finite lot of individuals as part of a continuum of human experience in the natural...

A cinematographic reflection on external and internal images based on a journey to Siberia: looking, listening and marvelling.

A cinematographic attempt at a maximum of exertion and a maximum of relaxation based on the thoughts of John Cage, Chuang Tzu and others.

Parco delle Rimembranze is a film which offers us the opportunity to reflect, to observe and to listen and thereby experience something that happens...

Michael Pilz re-examines his image archive to build a cinematic poem with footage shot between 2009 and 2018 in Iran and the Canary islands of La...

To this day, a work in progress called 'Curtains' can be found on the extensive website of Austrian maverick master Michael Pilz. The idea was to...

A compilation of 16-year-old documentary footage taken by the director while watching rehearsals of three theatre productions of Samuel Beckett's...