Film - An Exercise in Illusion II

Lisl Ponger attended the photography class of the School of Graphic Arts in Vienna. She made photographies of the actions of Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch and Peter Weibel. From 1974 to 1978, she lived in the USA and in Mexico. In 1979, Lisl Ponger began to direct films. She was responsible for the concept and organization of the avantgarde film showcase called “Die Schatten im Silber” of 1987. She received the Austrian Promotion Award for Film Art in 1988 and the Honorary Award for Film Art in 1994. She is a founding member of the film distribution company sixpackfilm and a member of the Vienna Sezession. –viennashorts.com

Biography:

-Visual Artist (film, photography)
-Born 1947
-Lives and works in Austria
-Attended School of Graphic Arts in Vienna, photography class

-1988 Austrian National Prize for Young Film Makers
-1994 Austrian National Prize for Film Art
-2003 Lower Austrian Prize for Visual Arts

-1998/99 and 2001/2002 Visiting Professor for Art Photography at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna

Publications:

Phantom Foreign Vienna/Phantom Fremdes Wien, Wieser Verlag, 2004
Catalogue Photographs 2000
Viennese Views/Wiener Einstellungen, Wieser Verlag 1999
Xenographische Ansichten, Wieser Verlag, 1995
Fremdes Wien, Wieser Verlag, 1993 (out of print)
Doppleranarchie – Wien 1967-72, Falter Verlag, 1990