Subobscura Films

A film by
Georg Tiller

Bergmanesque ghosts appear at the bedside of Edward Weki, a 75-year-old Sudanese man suffering from the final stage of Parkinson’s: Alma, the nurse of Ingmar Bergman’s film Persona, and a female version of Death from his The Seventh Seal help the old man recover lost memor...

A film by
Maéva Ranaïvojaona and Georg Tiller
Synopsis

A young woman works as a guard in a hopelessly overcrowded prison in Madagascar. She passes the time daydreaming about her father, a murderer who abandoned her as a child after killing his own brother. In her imagination, her father becomes ...

A film by Hilal Baydarov
Azerbaijan / France 2019

Immobile in a home where the sands of time fall to the rhythm of rural Azerbaijani sounds, a mother waits for her son. When he arrives, their conversations circle around existential questions and news from afar, troubling and cryptic. Unrest cloa...

A film by Georg Tiller
Austria / Sweden 2016

Synopsis
Eddie, a 65-year-old man from Sudan, seems to have been living for countless days on a remote stone-covered Swedish island. Surrounded by screaming birds and carrying a silent past, Eddie wanders around in nature, recollecting moments with a ...

A film by Marco Schmitt
Germany / Switzerland 2016

Produced for Manifesta 11

SYNOPSIS
The conflict between freedom and security underlies Marco Schmitt’s film. It takes as its inspiration Luis Buñuel’s surreal masterpiece El ángel exterminador (The Exterminating Angel, 1962), in which guests at...

A film by Maéva Ranaïvojaona
France / Germany 2016

Deep in the forest, at the center of a collapsed geodesic dome, a man performs strange rituals to try to crystallize his passion for a woman he has dreamt up. Is every new actress he encounters but the reflection of this perfect ideal? Reality a...

A film by Georg Tiller
Austria 2015
Original Languages: Chinese, English
Subtitles: English

WHITE COAL is less a film about coal, although it uses the material as its source of investigation than an exploration into motifs of industrial films from the 1920s to the present. Loosely inspired by He...

A film by Marco Schmitt
Mexico 2014

Our souls under your sight are like a little smoke, like mist, rising from the earth (…)

A film by Georg Tiller
Austria / Germany 2014

DMD KIU LIDT is an anti-music film which follows the Austrian pop-rock band Ja, Panik, and their social circle of fellow musicians in Berlin and Vienna. It is a chronicle of a group that centers on the conditions of music-making in a state of prolong...

A film by Maéva Ranaïvojaona
France 2012

Behind the locked doors of his apartment, a man faces troubling phenomena, straddling the thin line between fantasy and psychosis. His apartment seems to mutate uncannily as it is incrementally invaded by strange drawings. Painfully, he retches up a creat...

A film by Georg Tiller
Austria / Sweden 2011
Original Language: Swedish
Subtitles: English

Synopsis
How are the lives of a stone quarry worker, a cleaning lady, and a little girl all connected to the imaginary traces of the great Swedish director Ingmar Bergman? A filmic investigation into the t...

A film by Georg Tiller
Austria / Sweden 2010

A shot-for-shot reconstruction of a scene from Hour of the Wolf (1968) by Ingmar Berman, using the exact technical specifications of the original — lens, framing, shot length, camera movement. The absence of actors makes room for complete concentratio...