| Diagonale ’26 | Trailer |
A co-production of Diagonale and Kunsthaus Graz
Welcome to Diagonale 2026! To arrive on time, you’ll obviously need a reliable way to travel to the Styrian capital. Did you, like in The Time Machine, pull an old-fashioned lever and watch colorful lights start blinking? Did you try it Deep Space Nine-style with a transporter beam? Or did you, like in Time Travelers, jump through a time portal and land прямо in front of the Kunsthaus? In any case, in The Paradox Encounter on March 18, 2026, anything is possible: media artist Michael Gülzow has created not just one, but three fantastic Diagonale trailers, and with these classics from film and television history he invites you on a wonderfully witty journey through time. In the end, of course, all roads lead to Graz.
Concept/Direction: Michael Gülzow | Cinematography: Arthur Summereder | Production Management/Sound: Jennifer Mattes | Costume Design: Johanna Pflaum | Lighting: Fabian Czerszinski | Make-up: Stephanie Schreiber | Assistant: Cristina Rüesch | Cast: Clemens Berndorff, Sissi Reich, Anna Rieser, Maximilian Sellner
Exhibition at the Kunsthaus Graz:
Michael Gülzow
Das Tor zur Unwirklichkeit
What if we could move effortlessly back and forth between news, science fiction, and fake worlds? In Michael Gülzow’s video installation, we travel with the protagonists through time and realities. The filmmaker explores the media construction of truth and, by editing together found footage and his own material, blurs the line between reality and fiction. With a humorous touch, he makes the mechanisms of manipulation visible and deconstructs post-truth narratives. Curated by Martin Grabner.
Midissage: Thursday, March 12, 6 p.m.
Exhibition duration: until March 29, 2026
Michael Gülzow
Michael Gülzow in October ’25 © Paul Pibernig
Michael Gülzow, born in 1982 in Kiel, lives and works in Vienna. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna under Constanze Ruhm and Harun Farocki, and at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel under Stephan Sachs and Else Gabriel. In 2025, he received the Diagonale Award for Innovative Cinema from the City of Graz. In his award-winning film Der tote Winkel der Wahrnehmung (The Blind Spot of Perception), he humorously blurs the boundary between fiction and documentary and deconstructs “the mechanisms of manipulation — and thus also the way conspiracy mythologies function,” as the 2025 jury stated.