IMAGO MUNDI

challenging what is accepted

Austria 2007 l colour l stereo l 37 min

Original version: german, english subtitles, sous-titres en francais
Director, Script, Editor: Lisl Ponger
Assistant director: Anja Salmonowitz
Line producer: Elsa Okazaki
Camera: Caroline Champetier
Music: Peter Ponger
Sound: Bruno Pisek
Sound design: Dietmar Schipek
Set design: Lisl Ponger
Costumes: Anna Wukounig
Make up: Ina Ottahal-Hagenhofer
Gaffer: Emmanuel Demorgon
Sound assistant: N. N.
Art director: Tim Sharp
Sprachcoach: Vera Albert
Costume assistant: Miriam Schumi
Assistant: Susanne Schmaderer
Production: AMOUR FOU & Lisl Ponger
Cast: Ljubomir Bratic, Marie-Christine Friedrich, Araba Evelyn Johnston- Arthur, Moravia Naranjo, Susanne Schmaderer, Julian Sharp, Miriam Schumi, Nora Sternfeld, Anna Wukounig, Luisa Ziaja, and others
supported by: Innovative Film Austria, Stadt Wien

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The film Imago Mundi re-stages a 17th century still life - bringing its symbolic criticism of religious and secular power structures into line with those of a post-colonial, neo-liberal and globalising world. It does so in order to propose a re-reading of both the representation of politics and the politics of representation. Leading us on an excursion through the layers of symbols, work processes and the art forms of film, photography, dance, theatre, music and literature it uncovers the normative parameters that form the invisible or unacknowledged cultural cage in which we spend most of our time. In the interaction of political discussion, art forms and levels of meaning the film is a text which can be read as part of a discourse on political art and political activism.

Festivals:
Documenta XII, Kassel (16.6. - 23.9.2007)
Calcutta - India International Women Film Festival (9. - 17. 12. 2007)
dokumentART Film & Video Festival Neubrandenburg (D) / Szczecin (PL) ( 22. - 27. 09. 2007)
FID Marseille (4. 7. - 9. 7. 2007)
Diagonale (19. 3. - 25. 3. 2007)