Since 2013, INNSBRUCK INTERNATIONAL has presented film portraits of Tyrolean artists in the format of the Cinématons — one-shot portraits on Super 8, created by artist and filmmaker Guillermo Tellechea. Tellechea revived the format pioneered by Gérard Courant at the end of the 1970s, in which someone being filmed is given the opportunity to reveal «essential truths of their being» in one take and over precisely 200 seconds (Courant, 1989). The director has no role in staging the performances.
In 2026, musician Valerie Fritz, along with artists Alexandra Kontriner and Roland Maurmair, will join this growing Cinématons archive.

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