Kurzfilm
How to Disappear
Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf • AT 2020 • 21‘
DCP • eOF+dUT • Tirolpremiere
18.07.2021, 16:00 Leokino Double Feature mit The African Twin Towers
Total Refusal is an open artists’ collective which criticizes and artistically appropriates contemporary video games. However, as most mainstream game narratives employ the same infinite loops of reactionary tropes, the genre largely fails to challenge the values of their players and instead affirms hegemonial moral concepts. Acknowledging that this media is currently not realizing its cultural potential, we aim to appropriate digital game spaces and put them to new use. Moving within games but casting aside the intended gameplay, we rededicate these resources to new activities and narratives, looking to create “public” spaces with a critical potential.
Director Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf • Writer Robin Klengel, Michael Stumpf • Cinematography Michael Stumpf • Edit Leonhard Müllner • Cast Franz-Josef Windisch-Graetz, Dmitry Gamolin • Sound Adina Camhy • Producer Total Refusal
Leonhard Müllner, born 1987 in Graz, lives and works in Vienna as Visual Artist and Media Researcher. Robin Klengel, born 1988 in Graz. He works as artist, illustrator and cultural anthropologist in Vienna and Graz. He is interested in individual and collective tactics of spatial appropriation, and mechanisms of order and control of the urban as well as the digital public spaces. Michael Stumpf, born 1985 in Wels, studied philosophy in Vienna. At the moment he studies media culture and media art theory in Linz. He is artist and graphic designer.