“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at Utopia Festival of Fantastic Film Tel Aviv 2014. The festival will be held in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 13-20, 2014. Link
monochrom – the special interest group for art, theory and context-crafting – is determined to confront you with a multi-layered uber-reception of individual bliss. Dozens upon dozens of New Age/Relaxation/Esoterica CDs will be played simultaneously, in absolute darkness, and therefore create a cacophonic mist of well-being – an uneasy slur of chilloutlandishness. Whale songs and … Read more
WINNER! We won Best Foreign Horror Feature 2014 at The Indie Gathering International Film Festival. The Indie Gathering will take place August 15th-17th at The Clarion Inn & Conference Center in Hudson, OH. Proudness, ja! Link
“Let Me Ascertain You” is back with a new series examining two of The Civilians’ favorite fixations: sex and death. The production features Johannes Grenzfurthner of monochrom. (Well, actually, Johannes was interviewed by the LMAY folks and is performed by one of their actors.) This first podcast in the series focuses on death as the … Read more
When, where? Roswell, New Mexico (at Roswell International Sci Fi Film Festival): Friday, June 27, 2014 Munich (at iRRland): Monday, June 30, 2014; 8:30 PM Linz (at qujOchÖ): Thursday, July 3, 2014; 9 PM Oh yes!
“Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl” has been selected to screen at /slash: Festival des fantastischen Films 2014. The festival will be held in Vienna, Austria, September 18-28, 2014. Link
Amy R. Handler wrote an unbelieveable review of “Die Gstettensaga” in Film Threat. We got . Sweet jeebus. Grenzfurthner’s outspoken, swiftly flying little flick is the must-see indie of 2014, as far as I’m concerned. Everyone, be they intellectuals, political-types, or simply those that love great blackly comic, sensual horror, will fall madly in love … Read more
Furtherfield published a great review of “Die Gstettensaga” by Stefan Lutschinger. Very proud. Die GstettenSaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl is an Austrian hackploitation art house film by Johannes Grenzfurthner, mastermind of the international art-technology-philosophy group monochrom, co-produced by the media collective Traum & Wahnsinn. Reimagining the makerspace as grindhouse, the story is set in the … Read more
We are pigs! And we want to be loved! We just updated the page of edition mono/monochrom, our little publishing house. And we have brand new books to offer! In English (the language of business) and German (the language of guilt)! Link
Arse Elektronika 2014 TRANS*.* monochrom‘s festival on sex and tech! October 2-5, 2014 in San Francisco, USA. Call for talks, performances, games, workshops, machines, systems! Trans is a Latin noun or prefix, meaning “across”, “beyond” or “on the opposite side”. What does that mean for sex and technology? – Transitions, translations, transgressions, transistors & transducers, … Read more