Johann Lurf

2026

Over the course of twenty-two months, Johann Lurf fixed the gaze of a specially developed 65mm camera on a single fragment of the world: the Ottenstein Reservoir. What begins as a quiet observation of nature gradually transforms into a monumental image of cosmic motion. At first, the lake appears familiar – a place suspended between sky and water. But as the exposures grow longer, the dimensions themselves shift: stars begin to draw delicate lines, the sun inscribes bright arcs, the moon traces soft, almost calligraphic diagonals. The water surface becomes a perfect mirror that folds sky and landscape symmetrically into one another – above and below, light and shadow, becoming and fading.

Johann Lurf
Austria, France
2026
21 min
Russian Premiere

Johann Lurf
Jung An Tagen
Nora Czamler
Andi Winter

Revolving Rounds (2024)
Cavalcade (2019)
★ (2017)
Embargo (2014)
Twelve Tales Told (2014)
Picture Perfect Pyramid (2013)
RECONNAISSANCE (2012)
Sound Supression (2012)
Kreis Wr. Neustadt (2011)
Endeavour (2010)
140 9 (The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over
the Lazy Dog) (2009)
12 Explosionen (12 Explosions) (2008)
VERTIGO RUSH (2007)
pan (2005)

Born in Vienna in 1982. Since 2002 he has studied at Vienna´s Academy of Fine Arts. 2009 diploma at Harun Farocki´s filmclass.