Born 1959 in Vienna. Studied Psychology and History of Art at Vienna University. Free-lance film maker since 1987.
All three films included in the one link:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7...49153&hl=en
1. Pièce touchée (1989) 16 minutes
“Arnold's original material is a piece of found-footage from the 50s. 18 seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: a living room, a woman in an arm-chair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a disturbing pan, his wife follows him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exiting tango of movements. But pièce touchée is more than just a matter of forms. The reflections, distortions and delays it displays challenge Hollywood's stable system of space and time.” IMDber ‘Alexander Horwath’
7.9 rating http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098098/
2. Passage à l'acte (1993) (to kill a mocking bird) 12 minutes
“This short film appropriates a domestic scene from the classic film of TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and plays around with it, like a hip-hop DJ manipulating a record on a turntable. A character begins to say something, and that brief second of footage repeats rapidly, so the character seems to twitch and stutter mechanically. The film continually halts and repeats infinitesimal instants.” IMDber ‘James Garfield”
8.1 rating http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107786/
3. Alone. Life Wastes Andy Hardy (1998) 15 minutes
“Martin Arnold, an experimental filmmaker working in Austria, uses an optical printer to playfully manipulate several micro-moments from an early Andy Hardy film. Arnold slows down, reverses, repeats, loops and recuts images (and their accompanying sound track) from the MGM film to reanimate subversive subtexts...It's beautifully subversive and benignly cruel. Arnold's exquisite craftsmanship and penetrating insight makes it hard to ever see these scenes the same way again. Or perhaps he allows us to truly see, as with a psychoanalytical/cinematic X-ray machine, the Oedipal tensions that always lurked beneath the surface of the happy Hardy home.” IMDber ‘anonymous’
8.1 rating http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157304/