Austrian artist and filmmaker Marlies Pöschl has been invited to present her film The White Field at this year's Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York. The film is a dialogue between the filmmaker and a woman who has chosen to live without technology, because it makes her feel sick.

Seventy-six year-old Jill constructs her habitat, the "white field", anew every day. The electrosensitive woman lives in her white Ford at an altitude of 1,400 m in the French Vercors Massif, 40 minutes away from the nearest village. Shot on 16 mm with a wind-up Beaulieu camera and working only with post-production sounds, this essay film seeks to establish a recording process that does not create an electromagnetic field. It translates the sensitivity of its protagonist into an artistic form.

Marlies Pöschl is currently based in Vienna and works internationally. Shifting between artistic, curatorial and educational approaches, she is interested in art as a form of knowledge production. Her films and installations have been shown in solo exhibitions, biennales and film festivals such as the Vienna Biennale for Change (AT), Antimatter media art festival (CA), Edinburgh International Film Festival (GB), Cinema Verité (IR), Diagonale (AT) and others.

The White Field will be presented as part of the programme “Experimental 3: I am changing because of you” and will receive its international premiere at Aesthtetica Short Film Festival, 6-10/11/2024, York, UK

https://marliespoeschl.net/ https://www.goldenpixelcoop.com/

Screening dates:
TH, 07/11/2024, 15:30-17:00 Friargate
SA, 09/11/2024, 21:00-22:30, YSJU
SU, 10/11/2024, 10:00-11:30, NCEM

Full programme:

https://issuu.com/aesthetica_magazine/docs/aesthetica-short-film-festival-2024?fr=xPf81NTU

Book your tickets here:
https://www.asff.co.uk/tickets/