
Revolving Rounds
Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik
Presented only in theatres.
This film is part of the FIFA Expérimental program Ces lieux qui nous habitent.
Befitting its title, Revolving Rounds is a cyclical film in both form and content. Shot at an agricultural field on the outskirts of Vienna (Austria), Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik’s 3D short begins as it ends, tracking a planimetric path alongside three greenhouses as in the early morning sun.
Shot in 35mm and 16mm film, with two synchronized cameras, the crossing of this humanless space leads inside one of the greenhouses where are gathered a pair of 16mm projectors and a cyclostéréoscope. A midcentury cinematic device that uses a rotating barrier-grid to display autostereoscopic 3D without the need for glasses, the cyclostéréoscope today resembles a piece of industrial farm equipment as much as a premodern line-screen apparatus. This is a correlation that Lurf and Jauernik tease out through a spatiotemporal intervention with both the instrument itself and the subject being animated in its spinning frame: a pea plant which is filmed to the point of legibility and dissolves into a purely granular yet volumetric space. Revolving Rounds is charting a quite unusual course through space, time, and perception. A field trip in every sense. [Excerpts from a text by Jordan Cronk]
This film is part of the FIFA Expérimental program Ces lieux qui nous habitent.
Befitting its title, Revolving Rounds is a cyclical film in both form and content. Shot at an agricultural field on the outskirts of Vienna (Austria), Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik’s 3D short begins as it ends, tracking a planimetric path alongside three greenhouses as in the early morning sun.
Shot in 35mm and 16mm film, with two synchronized cameras, the crossing of this humanless space leads inside one of the greenhouses where are gathered a pair of 16mm projectors and a cyclostéréoscope. A midcentury cinematic device that uses a rotating barrier-grid to display autostereoscopic 3D without the need for glasses, the cyclostéréoscope today resembles a piece of industrial farm equipment as much as a premodern line-screen apparatus. This is a correlation that Lurf and Jauernik tease out through a spatiotemporal intervention with both the instrument itself and the subject being animated in its spinning frame: a pea plant which is filmed to the point of legibility and dissolves into a purely granular yet volumetric space. Revolving Rounds is charting a quite unusual course through space, time, and perception. A field trip in every sense. [Excerpts from a text by Jordan Cronk]
Overview of some festivals:
World Film Festival, Thailand (2024)
IDFA, Int. Documentary Filmfestival, Netherlands (2024)
Gijon — International Film Festival, Spain (2024)
Milano — Filmmakers Festival, Italy (2024)
Montréal — Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Canada (2024)
World Film Festival, Thailand (2024)
IDFA, Int. Documentary Filmfestival, Netherlands (2024)
Gijon — International Film Festival, Spain (2024)
Milano — Filmmakers Festival, Italy (2024)
Montréal — Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Canada (2024)
Production | Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik |
Director | Christina Jauernik, Johann Lurf |
Distribution | Sixpackfilm |
Animation | Christian Freude |
Session
• Université Concordia - J.A. de Sève, LB-125, Pavillon J. W. McConnell
Sunday, march 16, 2025, 05:30 p.m. — 06:15 p.m.
Production

Johann Lurf
Born in Vienna in 1982. Since 2002 Johann Lurf has studied at Vienna´s Academy of Fine Arts. 2009 diploma at Harun Farocki´s filmclass.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
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Embargo (2014)
Twelve Tales Told (2014)
Picture Perfect Pyramid (2013)
Capital Cuba (2015)
Embargo (2014)
Twelve Tales Told (2014)
Picture Perfect Pyramid (2013)

Christina Jauernik
Born 1985 in Graz, Austria. Christina Jauernik studied contemporary dance and choreographic practices in Amsterdam and UK, and art and architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.
Biographical notes provided by the film production team
Biographical notes provided by the film production team