comissioned work & trailers

Délire atta
CAN 2025, col&bw, 5:22 min
music: Roger Tellier-Craig, commissioned by: Hors Champ, Cadavre Exquis

Délire atta takes found footage and sound from six archival films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization.
Michaela Grill’s approach seeks to liberate images from their historical patina, stripping away nostalgia to reveal their raw visual potential. By emphasizing textures, forms, and movement, she allows the material itself to dictate the composition. The red tint of the original print of La biologie des atta, for example, became a key visual element—embraced rather than corrected—intensifying the film’s physical presence and expressive power.
Roger Tellier-Craig worked exclusively with audio sourced from four of these films, selecting material rich in timbre and texture. This material was then stretched, granulated, and reshaped into new sonic fragments that still echo their original source—not as direct references, but as an expansion of the infinite possibilities within media often considered finite.
Together, 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. (RTC)

𝘿𝙚́𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖 utilise des séquences trouvées et des sons provenant de six films d’archives et les transforme par un processus d’abstraction et de recontextualisation. L’artiste Michaela Grill libère ainsi les images de leur nostalgie, en misant sur les textures, les formes et le mouvement, accompagnée par son complice Roger Tellier-Craig travaille le son comme un matériau brut : il l’étire, le fragmente et le métamorphose pour en faire émerger de nouvelles résonances. Un dialogue visuel et sonore fascinant qui redonne souffle aux archives. (André Habib)

𝘿𝙚́𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩𝙩𝙖 uses found footage and sounds from six archive films and transforms them through a process of abstraction and recontextualization. Artist Michaea Grill frees images from their nostalgia, focusing on textures, shapes, and movement. Accompanied by her collaborator Roger Tellier-Craig, who works with sound like a raw material: stretching it, fragmenting it, and transforming it to bring out new resonances. A fascinating visual and sonic dialogue that breathes new life into the archives. (André Habib)

online:
Tënk Canada – Le cinéma documentaire en ligne/Cadavre exquis (5 + 1) · L’art du cinéma scientifique

Superimposer #3
CAN 2023, col, 7 min 30
Music: I THINK I SAW YOU SEE ME
commissioned music video by I THINK I SAW YOU SEE ME for their album ‚SUPERIMPOSER‘

Tell Me
AT 2016, b/w, 6 min 30
Music: Maja Osojnik
commissioned music video by Maja Osojnik.

every body
AT 2014, col & bw, 1 min 6
music: glim – Andreas Berger
Trailer for Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film. Commissioned work for Diagonale and Kunsthaus Graz

I’m Not Ready For The Grave Yet
AT 2012, bw, 4 min
Artist: B.Fleischmann, Album: I´m not ready for the grave yet, Label: Morr Music
Directed by: Bernhard Fleischmann, Georg Weissgram and Michaela Grill

skin deep
AT 2011, bw, 1min 6
commissioned pocketfilm for Grünzeug by Austrian Film Archive

Bilderrausch
2010
commissioned video for the exhibition Changing Channels. Art and Television1963-1987 by MUMOK Museum of Modern Art Vienna

Bonustrack Synaesthetic Videos from Austria DVD
AT 2004, col, 1 min

Sit Down.Stand Up
AT 2003, bw,
Music: Radiohead
Screenings:
Diagonale- Festival of Austrian Films/A

Rock´n´Roll Will Never Die
AT 2002, bw,
co-director: Billy Roisz; Music: Christof Kurzmann, Toshimaru Nakamura, Martin Siewert (my kingdom for a lullaby)