Movies: Philipp Gufler

Philipp Gufler's latest video installation consists of a performance by the artist and archival film scenes with queer and transgender content. Divided into two projections we see explicit and low-threshold expressions of non-standard sexuality....

In Gufler’s video installation The Responsive Body (2019), questions, directed at heteronormative, masculine self-conceptions of an art movement, arise. Gufler channelled texts by the British Op Art artist Bridget Riley into the film and thus provide...

Who was Lana Kaiser? A pop star? A phantom? Born Daniel Küblböck and disappeared under tragic circumstances, Lana Kaiser is the secret favorite star of the German trans scene. A fan discussion about the queer icon....

In 2002, Lana Kaiser became well known in the first season of the German version of the Idol television franchise. She was born in 1985 and went by her birth name Daniel Küblböck. At only 17 years old she polarised the audience with her androgynous a...

"For some time now I wanted to shoot a short film about Albert Knoll's tireless self-organized historical work and ask him why he has dedicated a large part of his life to commemorating the crimes against humanity committed during the Nazi dictatorsh...

Philipp Gufler's video installation "Projektion auf die Krise (Gauweilereien in Munich)" provides a kaleidoscopic look back at the beginnings of the AIDS crisis in Germany in the 1980s - a time when Munich's repressive policy against homosexuals reac...

In his video installation Philipp Gufler is carrying on his engagement with political, artistic and social movements. In this work, Gufler focuses on the Munich based performance artist Rabe Perplexum, imitating or subverting the stylistic convention...

The video installation „Een gebeuren“ is based on Ben d’Armagnac’s performance of the same name, which took place in Amsterdam on 14th June 1975. D’Armagnac occupied a glass cube with the dimensions of about 2x1x1 metres, painted white from the insid...

The film portrait recounts the social and political repression of homosexuals in post-war Germany based on an interview with 95-year-old Erich Haas, who worked as a receptionist in hotels in Munich after the Second World War....

In this video installation Philipp Gufler grapples with different images and ideas of masculinity that art has produced over centuries: from vomiting, well-endowed Greeks, to the vain Narcissus, towards Andy Warhol’s gun shooting Elvis Presley. The s...

This videoinstallation by Philipp Gufler is a documentation of losses. Filmed on Super-8....