Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl
Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl is a 2014 Austrian science fiction and fantasy film directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner and starring Sophia Grabner, Lukas Tagwerker and Jeff Ricketts.
The absurdist comedy deals with the politics and hype behind media technology and nerd culture. Grenzfurthner calls his film a contemporary way to talk about the critique of the spectacle and commodity fetishism. The film was co-produced by art group monochrom and the media collective Traum & Wahnsinn, and created for the Austrian television channel ORF III. It features music by Kasson Crooker, Starpause, and many others.
monochrom member Franz Ablinger holding the shadow puppet of Echsenfriedl ("Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl", 2014)
Johannes Grenzfurthner is an Austrian artist, filmmaker, writer, actor, curator, theatre director, performer and lecturer. Grenzfurthner is the founder, conceiver and artistic director of monochrom, an international art and theory group and film production company. Most of his artworks are labeled monochrom.
Grenzfurthner at Museumsquartier, Vienna (2011)
Image: Johannes Grenzfurthner, signature
Grenzfurthner, keynote at Paraflows Symposium, 2012
Grenzfurthner and Matt Winston talk about Stan Winston and special effects ("Traceroute", 2016).
