Michaella Grill studied in Vienna, Glasgow, and London (Goldsmiths College). She has produced various film and video works, installations, and live performances since 1999. Her work has been presented on five continents, including at MoMA in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, La Casa Encendida in Barcelona, the ICA in London, and various film archives. Her videos have been screened at over 200 festivals worldwide. In 2010, she received the Outstanding Artist Award from the Austrian Ministry of Art and Culture.
What does it mean to represent the visual traces of environmental destruction? How to communicate the temporality of global heating in a time-based medium? These are the questions tackled by this experimental documentary exploring permafrost thaw and its effects on diverse ecosystems.
_Délire atta_ takes found footage and sound from six archival films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization. Image and sound engage in a dialogue of texture and transformation, revealing unexpected resonances within the archive and generating new possibilities from what might otherwise be seen as fixed or obsolete.
What does it mean to represent the visual traces of environmental destruction? How to communicate the temporality of global heating in a time-based medium? These are the questions tackled by this experimental documentary exploring permafrost thaw and its effects on diverse ecosystems.
_Délire atta_ takes found footage and sound from six archival films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization. Image and sound engage in a dialogue of texture and transformation, revealing unexpected resonances within the archive and generating new possibilities from what might otherwise be seen as fixed or obsolete.