Becoming Outline
It started with an autobiographical art project. Miriam Bajtala used the floor plans of the 18 apartments she had lived in until now. They served as canvases on which she used words and colors to transfer her memories of the given space as well as the disadvantageous socio-economic factors that shaped her as a woman and a foreigner. In the confrontation she had begun with her own family history, the author is now continuing the film, which is fiction, documentary and performance. Different spaces and dimensions of existence – national, class, gender – are constantly layered on top of each other and rearranged in it. The result of the act of visualization and updating becomes a spatial curriculum vitae. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
Director's Biography
Miriam Bajtala, born in Bratislava (SK), grew up in Linz and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Over her career, the visual artist, filmmaker and, from 2011 to 2018, teacher at the University of Art and Design Linz has been the recipient of numerous prestigious awards, including the Outstanding Artist Award for Fine Arts 2012 and the Gabriele-Heidecker-Preis 2021. Director's Filmography (Selection)
Becoming Outline (2024) - First Scenery #Mirka (2020, short) - Im Akkord (Work by the Piece, 2019, short) - Kritische Räume brauchen Zuneigung (Critical Spaces Need Affection, 2014, short; CE14) - Die Übung (The Exercise, 2010, short) - Mackey's Escape (2004, short)
Becoming Outline (2024) - First Scenery #Mirka (2020, short) - Im Akkord (Work by the Piece, 2019, short) - Kritische Räume brauchen Zuneigung (Critical Spaces Need Affection, 2014, short; CE14) - Die Übung (The Exercise, 2010, short) - Mackey's Escape (2004, short)
Local Artists 2025
Miriam Bajtala
Austria 2024
color
70 minutes
German OV with English subtitles
Screenings / Tickets
Film guest(s) present: Miriam Bajtala (Director)
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Screenplay Miriam Bajtala
Cinematography Marianne Andrea Borowiec
Editing Miriam Bajtala
Sound/Sounddesign Andreas Hamza, David Almeida Ribeiro
Music Tumido, Nitro Mahalia, Rashim
With Anna Kohler Frauenlob, Lotta Bösch, Matilda Lurf, Isabella Lurf, Jona Moro, Gwendolin Kovacic, Katrin Kröncke, Anat Stainberg, Thomas Hörl
Producer(s) Miriam Bajtala
World Sales
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Additional Credits
Sounddesign: David Almeida Ribeiro Komposition: Stefan Németh
World Premiere
Ji.hlava IDFF 2024
Tags
German spoken in film, German spoken / German subtitles,
