Bernhard Hetzenauer
Bernhard Hetzenauer was born in 1981 in Innsbruck/Austria. He studied Scenography with Prof. Bernhard Kleber at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Film and Photography at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg with Prof. Wim Wenders, Pepe Danquart and Silke Grossmann, as well as Gestalt therapy in Quito and Buenos Aires. He is a media artist, filmmaker and writer. His work focuses on questions of subjectivity, representation and the construction of memory. His films and videos have been shown at exhibitions, film festivals, in theaters and on TV in 36 countries and received various awards. His film theory essay “Das Innen im Außen” (The Inside on the Outside) on Jacques Lacan’s Theory of the Gaze and the film language of Béla Tarr was published by Alexander Verlag in Berlin and UNAM in Mexico City. In 2017/2018 his film “La sombra de un dios – A God’s Shadow” was selected at Viennale, Max Ophüls Preis and 50 other international film festivals. His multi-channel video installation “Faces of Athens” on the decline of the Greek healthcare system during the financial crisis was shown in an eponymous solo exhibition at the Künstlerhaus in Vienna and KC Grad gallery in Belgrade. In October 2020 it was also part of the group show “Convergence” at the Kunstpavillon Innsbruck. In 2019 Hetzenauer’s artist book “Faces of Athens” was published by Revolver Publishing in Berlin. His recent film “The Birthmark” premiered at the Morelia IFF 2019 and the Max Ophüls Preis 2020 in Saarbrücken and was screened at St. Louis IFF, Filmfest Dresden, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, SESIFF Seoul, Antofacine Chile, FIDBA Bunenos Aires, ISFF Grimstad, Go Short Nijmegen and Braunschweig IFF, among many others. He is currently working on two new film projects at the border of Mexico and the US.