Catalogue Lumière no. 255 Filmé par Alexandre Promio

Otto Muehl Kardinal Perinetkeller Wien Frühjahr 1967 http://www.ubu.com/film/muehl.html Kamera Helmut Kronberger Otto Muehl (born June 16, 1925, at Grodnau, Burgenland, Austria) is an Austrian artist. He started painting in his youth and in the 60s was one of the co-founders, and an important member, of Wiener Aktionismus or Viennese Actionism. In 1972 he founded the famous commune Friedrichshof that flourished for several years before falling apart in the 1990s. Muehl himself was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment for having sexual relationships with teenagers. He was released after 7 years and set up a smaller commune in Portugal. In 1943, Otto Muehl served in the German Army and in 1944 he was sent to the Front. After the war, he studied teaching German and History, and Pedagogy of Art at the Wiener Akademie der bildenden Künste. In the sixties his aim was 'to overcome painting on canvas through staging the process of its destruction'. He made rhizomatic structures with scrap iron ("Gerümpelplastiken"), but soon proceeded to the "Aktion" in the vein of the New York Happenings. In 1962, when he was 37, the first "Aktion" "Die Blutorgel" was performed in Muehl's atelier in the Perinetgasse by Muehl himself, Adolf Frohner and Hermann Nitsch. The "Fest des psycho-physischen Naturalismus" and "Versumpfung einer Venus" followed in 1963. From 1964 to 1966 many "Malaktionen" were filmed by Kurt Kren and photographed by Ludwig Hoffenreich. In 1966 a new concept of Aktion was developed with Günter Brus: instead of the canvas, the body became the scene of action. In 1968, Muehl, Brus and Oswald Wiener organised an Aktionsveranstaltung "Kunst und Revolution" in the University of Vienna, which caused a scandal in the press; they were arrested and Brus emigrated to Berlin. Gradually, Muehl began to distance himself from "Aktion". He regarded the "happening as a bourgeois artform, mere art". The "transition from art to life" resulted in the founding of the commune as a kind of anti-society. Inspired by Wilhelm Reich, all members submitted to the so-called Aktionsanalyse. The declared aim was the destruction of bourgeois marriage and private property, free love, and collective education of the children. In 1974 he played a small role as a member of an anarchic/therapy commune in Dusan Makavejev's Sweet Movie. In the eighties, tensions within the commune increased until they culminated in a revolt under the direction of Altenberg. When, on top of that, Muehl was arrested and imprisoned in 1991, the commune fell apart. In 1997 Muehl moved to Faro, Portugal to start a new commune experiment. Despite suffering from Parkinsons disease, Muehl continued his art work, and in 2002 developed "electric painting films", a new technique in which he paints digital photos from actions using a computer tablet and pen and edits the process into films. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Muehl

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北京天安门广场是中国人熟悉的场所。1994年，北京天安门广场已经是一个散步者、情侣、士兵、小学生和游人频繁出入的场所。民警站岗，旅游者拍照，观看升降国旗，人们在广场放风筝，踢毽子、跑步、锻炼身体等。每天川流不息的人群在那里自动上演各种仪式行为，表达的是政治在司空见惯的日常生活中的体验。一些生活细碎的影像被摄影机纪录下来，从一个独特的视角来观察这个具有政治象征的核心地带 。该片于1994年拍摄，那时候段锦川已经系统地看过导演弗雷德里克·怀斯曼的作品，怀斯曼几十年如一日，将镜头对准公共领域中的权力运作，他所拍摄的纪录片《中央公园》很对段锦川的胃口。段锦川产生了拿纽约的中央公园和北京的天安门广场相互比较的想法，拍一个内容上不同的纪录片。段锦川把这个想法告诉了张元，两人一拍即合。该片用用黑白胶片搭配35CM的摄影机拍摄 ，拍摄周期历时2个月 。纪录片《广场》对天安门广场进行了不动声色和充满幽默的记录。那些在天安门前拍照留念的旅客、在广场上放风筝的儿童和锻炼的老人，以及值勤的军人和警察，构筑了一个日常生活化的场景。而派出所一些警察的语言也被处理的颇有些幽默。政治在这里被消除了，即使那些政治觉悟很高的警察，说出的一些政治语言，在这里都成为他们生活的一部分。政治是怎样在这里成为他们工作和生活的一部份，这是这部纪录片所揭示的问题之一。该片通过无数的细小生活化和人性化的情节，从一个新的角度观察纪录了这个象征性的空间 。 （中国网络电视台评）

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