Artist and filmmaker Guillermo Tellechea has revived the Cinématon project, an archive of one-shot film portraits in Super 8 format developed by Gérard Courant in the late 1970s. An individual is filmed in a single take lasting 200 seconds (the length of a Super 8mm magazine) and is given the opportunity to reveal ‘essential truths of their personality’ (Courant: 1989).
Initiated at the first biennial in 2013 and continuing since, 15 Tyrolean artists have so far been invited to give insight into their ‘true self’: Paul Albert Leitner, Dieter Henke & Marta Schreieck, Annja Krautgasser, Martin Philadelphy, Daniel Pöhacker, Eva Schlegel, Esther Stocker, Peter Quehenberger (2013); Lissie Rettenwander, Klaus Händl and Heidrun Sandbichler (2016); as well as Jürgen Bauer, Romana Fiechtner and Peter Blaas (2018).
This year, the archive of Tyrolean artists will once more be expanded to include three additional Cinématons: visual artist Martin Gostner, musician and composer Thomas Larcher as well as actress Teresa Waas have portrayed themselves.

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