Artist and filmmaker Linda Christanell has been regarded as a key figure in the Austrian avant-garde since the mid-1960s. After focusing initially on photography and performance, Christanell began in 1975 to work in the medium of film as well. Her works — such a "For You" (1984) and "NS-Trilogie" (1996 — 2000) — revolve around the interconnections between memory and longing, desire and violence, sensuality and transience. Oberhausen will present the most extensive retrospective of Christanell’s films in the past 15 years. 

29 + 30 april 2012