I look in the mirror and see myself. I look through the camera and see someone else. I look at the camera, what do I see? Using these three parameters, the films in this program can be sketched, the central theme is the staging of the self or the other. Kren and Muhr portray the travesty artists Dame Edna and Lucy McEvil while Scheirl / Pürre…

Film 1:
Severin Fiala, Ulrike Putzer: Elephant Skin, 2004, 34 min, 35mm (eUT)

Elfi is around fifty and shares a small flat with her mother in provincial Lower Austria. After work, she looks after the old woman, who constantly makes requests and complains, but never has a good word for her daughter.
Over the years, Elfi has acquired a protective la…

The desire for knowledge was a driving force behind Muybridge's (animal) movement studies and thus the birth of chronophotography as a precursor to cinema. Animals have always been protagonists of film, even in its experimental manifestations: as strange creatures, as objects of study and as mirrors for man's own bestiality. A programme of encount…

We watch films by women* and they watch them: Yes, what then?
The "Views by Women*" programme brings together different ways of looking. Here, female* filmmakers attempt to present their personal, unbiased perspective on the world. Many of these views are not based on film conventions. New perspectives are explored. Beauties are exposed. The scenes…

Recordings from the basement is based on material that Peter Haindl recorded of himself in his flat between 1993 and 1999 and handed over to the filmmaker Rainer Frimmel. These are eloquent testimonies of a man, which he addresses to an imaginary audience in various self-presentations, for posterity, so to speak. From a contemporary perspective, t…

Repetition of the programme, which was previously only shown online due to Corona, at its original venue in the MetroKino

As a creative means in art, destruction as a live action, as an act of depicting destruction, as an attack on the fine arts or as the integration of found, worn or destroyed objects is still very young. Film art and Expanded C…

Repetition of the programme at MetroKino in autumn 2020 !!!

As a creative means in art, destruction as a live action, as an act of depicting destruction, as an assassination attempt on the fine arts or as the integration of found, worn or destroyed objects is still very young. Film art and Expanded Cinema were considered almost from the very begi…

Recordings from the basement is based on material that Peter Haindl recorded of himself in his flat between 1993 and 1999 and handed over to the filmmaker Rainer Frimmel. These are eloquent testimonies of a man, which he addresses to an imaginary audience in various self-presentations, for posterity, so to speak. From a contemporary perspective, t…

In the last two years, young female directors in particular have attracted attention with exciting works. They present female characters in their cinematic narratives who act and react according to their generation and for whom gender norms and cultural attributions are at most worth questioning or melancholy contemplation. Without larmoyance and …

Empty studio spaces and courtyards in a council block as the projection surface of an acoustic western shoot-out; charged atmospheric images as the enigmatic set pieces of a possible thriller; a protagonist abandoned on the Croatian Riviera in the off-season; the parallel presentation of two unconnected stories from off-screen and on-screen; the w…