Hubert Sielecki

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Hubert Sielecki, at the VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009

Hubert Sielecki (born November 6, 1946 in Rosenbach, Carinthia) is an Austrian artist who is primarily known for his animated films.

Biography

He is a descendant of the aristocratic Sielecki family from Galicia.

He studied from 1968 to 1973 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Subsequently, he received a scholarship for animation and painting at the National Film School in Łódź. Since 1982 he has taught experimental animation film in the master class of Maria Lassnig at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where he established the studio for experimental animation films. The studio was continued by Niki Jantsch and Praved Krishnapilla after his retirement in 2012.

In 1985 he founded the Austrian chapter of the International Animated Film Association (ASIFA). In 1990-1991 he was a lecturer for film at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig. From 1986 to 1991 he was a member of a number of bords for the promotion of film production in Austria. Hubert Sielecki is also board member of the Vienna Künstlerhaus.[1]

In 2007, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the studio for experimental animation film at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, he founded the Hubert Sielecki Prize in several categories for artistic and experimental short film or animation for young Austrian filmmakers.[2][3][4]

Works

From 1968 he undertook his first artistic experiments with film. Together with Zbigniew Rybczyński he created his first animated movies. His movies are auteur films, in which he is mostly responsible for all areas of production from script to film music. For some films he worked together with writers such as Gerhard Rühm, Antonio Fian, Gernot Wolfgruber, painters such as Maria Lassnig, Tone Fink or musicians such as Wolfgang Mitterer together. Through his specialization in animation film his work has a special position in the Austrian film avant-garde.[5] Hubert Sielecki also produced cinema advertising, including in 1987, 1988 and 1989 the festival trailer for the Austrian Film Festival and 1990-1998 eleven commercials for the magazine Falter.

Several films by Hubert Sielecki were featured on film festivals in Germany, including at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Hamburg Short Film Festival, the International Videofestival Bochum, the Bamberg Short Film Festival and the Regensburg Short Film Week. Outside the German-speaking countries, he was shown on important festivals such as the Hiroshima International Animation Festival and the Kraków Film Festival.[6] In Austria itself there are mainly two festival appearances noteworthy: at the Diagonale in 1995, where he won the short film award for Air Fright, and at the Vienna Independent Shorts in 2008, where a comprehensive retrospective of his film work was shown.

Since the 1960s, he also created environments, object art and performance art, and was shown at numerous exhibitions.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1983: Nachrichten
  • 1983: Die Suppe
  • 1985: Festival
  • 1989: Drunk (Music Wolfgang Mitterer)
  • 1990: Life Show (45 Min.)
  • 1991: Die Helden (A.S.K.)
  • 1992: Maria Lassnig Kantate - together with Maria Lassnig[7]
  • 1994: Nitweitaget (Music Wolfgang Mitterer)
  • 1994: Dachbodenstiege (Text Gernot Wolfgruber)
  • 1995: Air Fright
  • 1995: Book Factory
  • 1996: Mein Kind (A.S.K.)
  • 1997: Liebe TV
  • 1998: Hitparade (A.S.K.)
  • 2000: Raumausstatter Stagl (A.S.K.)
  • 2001: The Upperlake Story (A.S.K.)
  • 2001: Österreich!
  • 2006: Drei Stücke - Spur (Text Karin Spielhofer)
  • 2007: SEHEN (Text and voice Gerhard Rühm)
  • 2007: WITZ with author Gerhard Rühm
  • 2009: FOUL
  • 2010: RADETZKYPLATZ (Text Antonio Fian)

Awards (selection)

  • Theodor Körner Prize 1982
  • Promotion Price of Fine Arts - Film, 1985
  • Prize and Audience Award, Trickfilmfestival Stuttgart 1984 (for Nachrichten)
  • Viennale 1988, Kodak-Filmprize
  • Short Film Award nomination, Berlin International Film Festival 1993 (for Maria Lassnig Kantate)
  • Short Film Award "Weisses Gold", Diagonale 1995 (for Air Fright)
  • BAF! Awards, Bradford-Festival in England, Winner in the Experimental Category 1999 (for "Hitparade")

Further reading

  1. ↑ Alexander Horwath, Lisl Ponger, Gottfried Schlemmer: Avantgardefilm Österreich. 1950 bis heute. Wespennest, Vienna 1995, pg. 421. ISBN 3-85458-508-X
  2. ↑ derStandard.at. "Hubert-Sielecki-Preis 2012 und Diagonale 2012 - Film - derStandard.at " Kultur". Derstandard.at. Retrieved 2013-05-27. 
  3. ↑ http://www.hubert-sielecki.at/user/husipreis.htm
  4. ↑ "Hubert-Sielecki-Preis 2011". artmagazine.cc. Retrieved 2013-05-27. 
  5. ↑ derStandard.at. "Die lange Geschichte des österreichischen Animationsfilms - Film - derStandard.at " Kultur". Derstandard.at. Retrieved 2013-05-27. 
  6. ↑ "independent film and video database". Filmvideo.at. Retrieved 2013-05-27. 
  7. ↑ derStandard.at. "Filme von Maria Lassnig - dieStandard.at " Kultur". Diestandard.at. Retrieved 2013-05-27. 

External links

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