03.10.25 / 18:30 @ GRUND1535
Die goldene Schindel – Austrian Music Video Award
Alpine Echoes and Caucasian Voices: music videos and other audiovisual formats
Impressions
program:
18:30 | multimedia art + video installation
Playground
Oksana Pohrebennyk
A few months ago, I began reading a book titled The Blue Fox by the Icelandic author Sjón. I took the book with me to the residency. The first thing I saw in the Rietz forest were the foam animals used for Bogenparcour practice. After some time coexisting with these non-animals and with the forest, I decided to read to them one of the chapters from the book, in which the story between a hunter and a fox unfolds.
The video piece is a gesture, an attempt to explain to these creatures what happened to them, why they are hunted, why they are wounded. The latex and ceramic installation extends those reflections, or what I call wounded vision, as a result of the war and the context I come from.
Oksana Pohrebennyk (1994) – born in Kherson, raised in Bilbao. Works with photo, video and text. Interested in the human and non-human body in its sensual and affective manifestations. She completed her studies in Contemporary, Technological and Performative Arts in Spain and is co-founder of Memory Lab collective. Currently she is based in Ukraine.
From June–July 2025, Oksana did an artist residency at GRUND1535 in the frame of the program FOKUS INTERNATIONAL Office Ukraine (Re)creation Residency.
19:00 | documentary film screening
Life in Three Voices, 2020, 38min
Marina & Leo Decristoforo
Life in Three Voices is a documentary that follows Ensemble Adilei (a traditional Georgian polyphonic choir) and the Chamgeliani Sisters (singers from the mountainous province of Svaneti), both on tour in the US, and in their native Georgia.
Shot in multiple locations in both countries, this film is about discovery, community, friendship, and above all else, an incredible vocal polyphonic tradition that brings together the most unlikely combinations of people from all around the world.
Marina Decristoforo is an anthropologist, writer and filmmaker from Brooklyn, NY. She occasionally sings in several folk groups, and wrote her Doctoral Dissertation on Georgian polyphonic practices, having lived in Georgia for two years while doing her fieldwork.
Leo Decristoforo, born in Vienna and raised in Bratislava and Tyrol, studied cinematography at the International Film School Cologne and at the filmacademy in Prague (FAMU). Together with Marina he founded the Pillusion Filmfestival in Tyrol.
20:30 | audio-visual performance
Staad
Lucas Passenberger
Staad is an alpine dark ambient project based in Innsbruck, weaving together years of collected field recordings and archival audio of alpine nature and folklore with layered synthesizers and recorded performances of traditional instruments.
Oppressive storms, eroded rocks, ancient rites, the sound of bells, rumbling horns, and the distant calls of scattered herders melt into a landscape of sound — a ritualistic score that casts the solitude and severity of the mountains in a haunting light.
It evokes the silence after a landslide. Unknown footsteps on creaking floorboards. The final embers fading in a smoke-darkened kitchen. A gesture of humility in front of the mountain. An expulsion. And a return.
Staad performs live, accompanied by immersive visuals that summon the darker echoes of early alpine settlement.
18:30 – 22:00 | outdoor-exhibition
4 Elements – Echoes from the young generation
A group exhibition presenting works by children, which were created during a creative course led by Carmen Egger. The works explore the theme of the four elements: earth, water, fire, and air.
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