12 Years of GPC – Revisited
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TECHNO SCAPES: Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Nathalie Koger, Simona Obholzer, Marlies Pöschl, Katharina Swoboda, Lisa Truttmann
TWO JOURNEYS: Victoria Fu, Juan Pablo González, Luis Gutiérrez Arias & John Henry Theisen, Adele Horne, Claudia Larcher, Brigid McCaffrey, Sasha Pirker & Lotte Schreiber, Raphael Reichl, David de Rozas, Katharina Swoboda
FRAMING COLLECTIVE ACTION: artist group Schandwache, Collectif Faire-Part, Eulàlia Rovira & Adrian Schindler, Yugantar Film Collective, et al.
PROFESSION: DOCUMENTARIST: Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei
VANISHING POINTS: Josephine Ahnelt, Nathalie Koger, Jennifer Mattes, Simona Obholzer, Christiana Perschon, Liddy Scheffknecht, Barbara Schwertführer, Katharina Swoboda
WHITE LIGHT II: Iris Blauensteiner, Nathalie Koger, Luiza Margan, Lydia Nsiah, Simona Obholzer, Christiana Perschon, Marlies Pöschl, Victoria Schmid, Miae Son, Katharina Swoboda, Lisa Truttmann
HALF OF THE SKY: Iris Blauensteiner, Dorottya Csécsei, Faika El-Nagashi, Anna Haidegger, Nathalie Koger, Luiza Margan, Lee Nevo, Christiana Perschon, Elena Peytchinska, Marlies Pöschl, Steffi Rauchwarter, Frida Robles, Simona Obholzer, Mona Schwitzer, Miae Son, Katharina Swoboda, Alexandra Tatar, Lisa Truttmann, Seda Tunç
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After twelve years of continuous work with and about moving images, the cooperative looks back: from the roughly one hundred projects carried out to date, the cooperative has selected ten moving-image projects to be screened again. The thematic focus of the ten projects and their films remains the same, but the years have passed and the venue for the screenings has now shifted entirely to the GPC Online Screen. How has our perspective on the respective programme and on each work changed? What were the programmes about and what were the pressing issues at the time of their presentation? Some of the screenings were developed in the years before the pandemic, before the post-truth era, and before the now ubiquitous use of artificial intelligence.
With this repeated screening of the programmes, the cooperative also takes a stand against the imperative of constant innovation: rather than giving in to the pressure to produce something new incessantly, this rescreening extends an invitation to understand images not as finished products of their time, but as images whose meaning is situated in relation to present-day and media conditions.
Program
■ Screen Matters – The Screen as a Place of Work
Online Symposium, 24.07.–03.08.2026, 19:00–23:00
The online symposium “Screen Matters – The Screen as a Place of Work” is dedicated to the various screens that surround us, as well as the working practices to be found on and behind their surfaces. As the fundamental infrastructure of this symposium, the screen becomes not only a space of production, presentation, and communication, but also an object of theoretical and artistic investigation.
With contributions by Ingrid Burrington, Anna Caterina Dalmasso, Eva and Franco Mattes, Lauren Lee McCarthy, Elisa Giardina Papa, Laure Prouvost, Dorothy R. Santos, Axel Stockburger, and Anna Witt
Hosted and organised by Olena Newkryta and Simona Obholzer / The Golden Pixel Cooperative
■ Techno Scapes
Film Programme, 07.–17.08.2026, 19:00
Images of landscapes travel across our screens every day. But where are these images stored? How do they reach us? How large is their ecological footprint?
“Techno Scapes” examines the material conditions of these seemingly disembodied images. The films make visible the sites and infrastructures underlying their storage and distribution, and explore the invisible landscapes behind, above, and beneath the real ones.
With films by Enar de Dios Rodríguez, Nathalie Koger, Simona Obholzer, Marlies Pöschl, Katharina Swoboda and Lisa Truttmann
■ Two Journeys
Film Programme, 21.08.–31.08.2026, 19:00
“Two Journeys” brings together two short film programmes curated and presented in 2019 by Viktoria Schmid and Lisa Truttmann in collaboration with Los Angeles-based filmmakers Rebecca Baron and Nora Sweeney. Inspired by Esther McCoy’s book “Vienna to Los Angeles: Two Journeys”, the programmes set out from these two locations and ultimately lead far beyond them. Through documentary, experimental, and hybrid forms, historical works enter into dialogue with contemporary voices. For the current online screening, this cinematic conversation has been revisited and continued in a newly assembled programme.
With films by Victoria Fu, Juan Pablo González, Luis Gutiérrez Arias & John Henry Theisen, Adele Horne, Claudia Larcher, Brigid McCaffrey, Sasha Pirker & Lotte Schreiber, Raphael Reichl, David de Rozas, and Katharina Swoboda
„Two Journeys: Los Angeles“↗︎. „Two Journeys: Vienna“↗︎
■ Framing Collective Action
Film Programmes
1) House, 04.09.–14.09.2026, 19:00
2) Street, 18.09.–28.09.2026, 19:00
3) Land, 02.10.–12.10.2026, 19:00
The screening series “Framing Collective Action” presents artistic and documentary films created within collective structures. By linking historical and contemporary examples, the series explores the potentials of collective filmmaking through diverse aesthetic approaches. Each film programme focuses on a specific spatial context (House, Street, Land) and examines the political and social impact of collective filmmaking both in front of and behind the camera, within and beyond the frame.
With films by artist group Schandwache, Collectif Faire-Part, Eulàlia Rovira & Adrian Schindler, Yugantar Film Collective, et al.
Curated by Enar de Dios Rodríguez and Olena Newkryta / The Golden Pixel Cooperative
“Framing Collective Action” was conceived for the mumok kino programme (2025) in Vienna.↗︎
■ Vanishing Points
Film Programme, 30.10.–09.11.2026, 19:00
The screening engages with questions of visibility, sight, perception, and their aesthetic dimensions. What does it mean to deconstruct vision? And what becomes visible in its place? In what ways does our ability to see shape our perception? And how do we perceive the world around us without sight, and how do we relate to it? In what ways does architecture determine our gaze, and how do we reflect ourselves? Which gazes do we direct our gaze toward? Should we shift perspectives?
With works by Josephine Ahnelt, Nathalie Koger, Jennifer Mattes, Simona Obholzer, Christiana Perschon, Liddy Scheffknecht, Barbara Schwertführer and Katharina Swoboda
Organised by Nathalie Koger and Marlies Pöschl / The Golden Pixel Cooperative
■ Profession: Documentarist
Film, 16.10.–25.10.2026, 19:00
“Profession: Documentarist (Herfeh: Mostanadsaz / حرفه: مستندساز)” by Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, and Nahid Rezaei, 2014, 80 min.
Set against the backdrop of political, social, and economic crises in Iran in 2014, seven female documentary filmmakers collectively created a kaleidoscopic account of their work, consistently focusing on the relationship between the personal and the political.
The film was screened as part of the film and lecture series “Jene Tage / آن روزها” (Those Days), held in 2017. The series was dedicated to presenting and discussing documentary, artistic, and essayistic film forms related to Iran.
An online Q&A with the filmmakers is planned. The date will be announced separately.
More on „Jene Tage / آن روزها“↗︎
■ White Light II
Film Programme, 13.11.–23.11.2026, 19:00
White light is made up of all colours. The Golden Pixel Cooperative presents the full spectrum of its working methods. The compilation of film and video works follows a chain of visual associations that interprets moving images as a space for artistic self-empowerment. The range of performative and documentary approaches demonstrates the appropriation of urban and museum spaces as well as landscapes, establishes relationships through lines of sight and gestures, and generates new modes of perception through the editing of found footage.
With works by Iris Blauensteiner, Nathalie Koger, Luiza Margan, Lydia Nsiah, Simona Obholzer, Christiana Perschon, Marlies Pöschl, Victoria Schmid, Miae Son, Katharina Swoboda, and Lisa Truttmann
Organised by The Golden Pixel Cooperative
"White Light II" was conceived for Vienna Art Week (2018) and presented at Medienwerkstatt Wien. ↗︎
■ Half of the Sky
Film, 27.11.–07.12.2026, 19:00
In “Half of the Sky” the cooperative revisits the kite festivals of the Weimar Bauhaus—festive parades for which kites had been designed as art objects and flying machines since the 1920s. In its homage to the often-overlooked female artists of the Bauhaus, the Golden Pixel Cooperative presents its own interpretation of the Bauhaus’s ideal of integrating art and life. The kites in the short film are dedicated to queer-feminist role models: philosophers, activists, writers, and artists. These kites emerged from a collaborative dialogue between the cooperative’s artists and collaborators from various fields. The project fostered a collective reflection on feminist role models and emancipatory practices.
Concept and realization by Iris Blauensteiner, Dorottya Csécsei, Faika El-Nagashi, Anna Haidegger, Nathalie Koger, Luiza Margan, Lee Nevo, Christiana Perschon, Elena Peytchinska, Marlies Pöschl, Steffi Rauchwarter, Frida Robles, Simona Obholzer, Mona Schwitzer, Miae Son, Katharina Swoboda, Alexandra Tatar, Lisa Truttmann, and Seda Tunç