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Claudia Larcher is the co-recipient of the Erste Bank's MoreVALUE Film Award, which she received for Self at the 2015 Viennale. On the occasion of her one-month residency at Deutsches Haus at NYU, we co-present with Anthology Film Archives, Erste Bank, and the Austrian Cultural Forum a showcase of her short films, including Self (2015). For her Show & Tell program, Claudia Larcher will be present in person to present a selection of her video works, alongside a film she has selected, Billy Roisz’s darkroom. Everytown, 2007, 2 min, digital, b&w; Heim, 2008, 12 min, digital; Empty Rooms, 2011, 12 min, digital; Between the Ocean, 2013, 5 min, digital; Self, 2015, 8 min, digital & Billy Roisz darkroom, 2014, 13 min, digital Austrian artist Claudia Larcher’s highly distinctive body of work encompasses photo-collage, site-specific video animation, and mixed media installation. At the heart of all her work, whatever the medium, is a preoccupation with architecture, and with the traces of history and memory that suffuse particular places. Questioning the meaning of ‘home’ and notions of identity, many of her moving image pieces take the form of digitally manipulated explorations of interior spaces in which people are absent and yet their imprint is unmistakably present. Combining photography and animation, works such as HEIM and EMPTY ROOMS find Larcher using digital tools to create impossible, endlessly circling pans, with spaces perceptibly but fluidly morphing into other spaces. The effect, thanks to the films’ inexorable, inhuman camera movement and subtly creepy soundtracks, is deeply unsettling. In her most recent video work, Self, Larcher applies this method to the surface of the human body, creating a similarly implacable, never-ending traveling shot across a bodily landscape that is at once hyper-real and alarmingly artificial. A kind of organic reconfiguration of her architecturally-oriented earlier films, it demonstrates the versatility of the unique technique she’s developed. Total running time of showcase: ca. 60 min., Thursday, July 21 at 7:30 p.m.