Johann Lurf is known as an experimental
filmmaker who cannot easily be subsumed under one style or category. His films examine various modes of (both human and technologically-aided)
vision and motion, but his more formally-oriented filmic experiments are always accompanied by strong narratives that, however
subtly, examine society, codes, norms, perception, and the history and development of cinema itself. Dabbling in short and
feature-length films, analog and digital film, found-footage and his own shots, Lurf has made a wide variety of cinematic
works, many of which have been featured in international film festivals and cultural institutions, notably the Sundance Film
Festival and the Austrian Film Museum.
Austrian Cultural Forum New York, August 2018
Born in 1982 in
Vienna, Johann Lurf has studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and had an Erasmus term at the Slade School of Fine
Art in London in 2008. He graduated from Harun Farocki’s film class in 2009. He received the State Grant of Austria for Video
and Media Art and participated in the Artist-in-Residence programs at the MAK Center for Arts and Architecture in Los Angeles
2011, the SAIC in Chicago 2015 and in Tokyo and Rotterdam 2016 as well as in Israel in 2019. In the same year he received
the Berlin Scholarship of the Akademie of Arts Berlin.
His work has been recognised internationally with awards and is
shown in numerous museums, exhibitions, cinematheques and festivals.
www.johannlurf.net
