STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES


SWEDEN FILM AWARDS: OFFICIAL SELECTION / FINALIST AUGUST 2025

STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES researches personal mechanisms of mystification existing as a result of ignorance or perfidious violence in society.

Alexandra Reill: STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH ODER NUR DIE KATZE HAT NEUN LEBEN, 2014. Still Frame
Alexandra Reill: STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH ODER NUR DIE KATZE HAT NEUN LEBEN, 2014. Still Frame
Alexandra Reill: STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH ODER NUR DIE KATZE HAT NEUN LEBEN, 2014. Still Frame

short arthouse | full hd | 00:11:58:24 | 2014

featuring susanne gschwendtner / florentin groll / tina muliar
text tina muliar / alexandra reill / bernadette stummer

camera / video material
georg eisnecker / sascha osaka / alexandra reill / prelinger archives
[live] light design georg eisnecker / peter koger
[live] video editing peter koger / nikita lauth / alexandra reill
[live] audio composition arthur denisson / eargazm

concept | directed by alexandra reill
inspired by claude cahun | vera chytilová | peter greenaway | ted hughes | marcel moore | sylvia plath | patti smith | andrei tarkowski | elsa triolet | assia wevill | unica zürn

production kanonmedia | vienna 2013 / 2014


The lack of empathy and coldness between humans become the starting point for reflections on the relevance of the moment of cutting or stepping through the mirror – an act which is repeated until the deceptive self-image bursts and the perspective of collective reality perceived from beyond individual disposition emerges; an act which is repeated until the step through the mirror is done and a heart can open …

STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES supported by

our thxs go to
— commission of culture 1070 vienna
— department of culture of the city of vienna

STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES screenings at

— @take this playground / take festival / alte post / vie / a / 17
— group exhibition opera publica / künstlerhaus wien / vie / a / 16
— espresso / vie / a / 14

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