Imago Mundi

an avant-garde film by Lisl Ponger
World Premiere: documenta XII


Austria 2007 // 37 min // digital

Synopsis

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 globalised world. It does so in order to propose a re-consideration 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.

Concept, realisation and editing

Lisl Ponger

Camera

Caroline Champetier

Music

Peter Ponger

Sound

Bruno Pisek

With

Ljubomir Bratic, Araba Johnston-Arthur, Lisl Ponger, Nora Sternfeld, Luisa Ziaja, Marie-Christine Friedrich, Moravia Naranjo, Julian Sharp

Producers

Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Lisi Ponger

Production

AMOUR FOU Vienna & Lisl Ponger

Supported by

Innovative Film Austria, City of Vienna Culture

Worldsales

Sixpackfilm

Festivals

Documenta XII, Kassel 2007
Calcutta - India International Women Film Festival 2007
dokumentART Film & Video Festival Neubrandenburg (D) / Szczecin (PL) 2007
FID Marseille 2007
Diagonale 2007