It Was a Pleasure
Mara Mattuschka Danke, es hat mich sehr gefreut, AT, 1987, 3', 16 mm
And our old Emperor said: "Thank you, it’s been very nice, it was a pleasure!" (M. M.)
Almost all of her films deal with writing and language, and with Mattuschka, this means attacking the sign systems of language. This is often done cryptically, or is at least not necessarily as obvious as the manner in which Mattuschka is accustomed to involving the human body, i.e., her own body as the character Mimi Minus, whose sensuality marks the ultimate expression of antitheses to the abstract nature of language. (Sixpack Film (ed.), Austrian Avantgarde Cinema, 1955-1993, Wien 1994)
Wed 26/9 Kino SC 16:00
