Hunters in the Snow

"With HUNTERS IN THE SNOW Michael Kreihsl succeeds in creating an art piece that comments on the Austrian situation of recent years in a way that is as conscious as it is playful: Ulrich Tukur, as a copyist of Dutch old masters in the Kunsthistorisches Museum, creates a figure as if from a text by Thomas Bernhard, who has mistakenly stumbled into the cold cosmos of Michael Haneke. Kreihsl's artifice here: he never takes his dogged hero animalistically seriously. Instead, he shows how an individual gets bogged down in grotesque idleness. In this respect, HUNTERS IN THE SNOW is also a grimly humorous treatise on argumentative jams of the Austrian intellectuals or domestic cinema." CLAUS PHILIPP

"Sensitivity to detail disintegrates in the supermarket world. It's about a man who disappears." MICHAEL KREIHSL