★ - Johann Lurf

At the moment that Austrian filmmaker Johann Lurf (1982) shows his first feature film ★ at various film festivals in Europe, after its premiere at Sundance, OFFoff and BOZAR organize a retrospective of his work. A student of Vienna's Academy of Fine Arts, Lurf graduated in 2009 in Harun Farocki's filmclass. In his films, cinematographic and urban spaces reinforce each other so that you can experience a purely cinematic reality and a pure landscape at the same time. ★ has as its subject the stars of cinema, literally then. From more than 500 films, Lurf captured the starry skies and edited them in a row to create a one-and-a-half-hour reflection on cinema and the night in films. The original soundtracks of the fragments form together the soundtrack of ★ and are the only link to the original, 'real' setting of these stars.

On February 26, OFFoff (Gent) is presenting a selection of Lurf's short films, in the presence of the artist, at the Sphinx Cinema (Gent).
 
Coproduction: OFFoff
With the support of: Österreichischen Kulturforums Brüssel