HACKING AT LEAVES
Johannes Grenzfurthner | Austria 2024 | 108 min. | English, Navajo with English subtitles
SUNDAY, 19.05. | 9 pm
Votiv Kino, Gr. Saal | TICKETS
In presence of Johannes Grenzfurthner
Dressed in a yellow hazmat suit, Johannes Grenzfurthner has set up shop in the control room of the Zwentendorf nuclear power plant. There he awaits the nuclear end of the world. In the meantime, he still has a lot to share. A hodgepodge of images from media history, popular culture and video games, interviews with activists, artists, tech nerds and hackers reconstruct and decode the colonial history of North America, the oppression of the Navajo Indians, and the hegemonies that result from these pasts.
HACKING AT LEAVES is a fast-paced tour d’images that uses humour and irony to provoke critical thinking. Can techno-nerds from the Navajo ‘Makerspace’ community in Durango, Colorado, ultimately save the world that has been thrown apart at the seams not only by the pandemic?
Director: Johannes Grenzfurthner
Cinematography: Florian Hofer, Daniel Hyde, Günther Friesinger
Editing: Sebastian Schreiner
Sound: Daniel Hasibar
Production: monochrom: Jasmin Hagendorfer, Günther Friesinger, Johannes Grenzfurthner
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Diagonale 2024
BIOGRAPHY
Johannes Grenzfurthner captivates audiences with his blend of intriguing, often surreal narratives. An award-winning artist, filmmaker, author, and performer, he deftly combines fact and fiction to create unique experiences.
He is the founder and artistic director of monochrom, an internationally renowned art, theory group, and film production company. The popular blog Boing Boing humorously referred to him as a “leitnerd,” a clever pun emphasizing his influence in nerd, hacker, and art cultures.
Traceroute (2016)
Glossary of Broken Dreams (2018)
Masking Threshold (2021)
Razzennest (2022)
Hacking at Leaves (2024)
Solvent (2024)
