The dozen is full! It has now been 12 years since sixpackfilm was founded. From our point of view, this is an ideal occasion to indulge in the art of the moving image with twelve exciting film programs. At the same time, this event at the Austrian Film Museum is intended to remind us of our goals and bring the motives behind our work closer to a n…
In one of the most startling and exciting developments in current film theory, late justice has now been done to early cinema: It has been recognized as a form of cinematography that is not merely a primitive precursor to the "real" film, the feature film, but rather forms a phase within which the creative possibilities of film were used in the mo…
The shaken machine. In cinema, the image counts as much as its erasure. The attacked, the assaulted image, always a specialty of avant-garde film, remains what it has always been, even in the moment of its decomposition and decoding: an image, a point of attraction. "the big screen", a short film program compiled at Sixpack, tells of the violence …
The tour began on March 11, 1994, in Chicago, at the famous "Art Institute," launching by far the most extensive and successful retrospective of Austrian film in the United States to date. "These seven programs offer America a deep insight into one of the world's greatest avant-garde film traditions." Steve Anker, director of the San Francisco Cin…
How it all began, where it will lead
The idea for BRAIN AGAIN came to us in May of last year. The occasion was the most beautiful poster that adorned the Croisette on the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival at that time. It showed a man's forehead with frizzy hair standing on end like call signs. Across the forehead was a freshly stitched cut that…
JESUS WALKING ON SCREEN. Much strained, often sold, mostly ridiculed. Not only in the widescreen emporiums of the Promised Land, but also on other continents and under different frameworks than those of the New Testament and the Bible film crosses the screen. To free the genre from the limitations usually imposed on it by the relevant compendia: t…
New avantgarde-films from Austria, Great Britain, Germany and the USA.
Body signs. The metamorphoses of Eros, which precede this program as a title, refer to four of the five films assembled here. Their stories deal with the history of the body and its sensuality.
At the same time, we want to present some of the most beautiful avant-garde films o…
What is independent filmmaking in the USA? We couldn't define it in terms of genre or even content. Instead, we'll show it to you. The selection for the week of short and medium-length films came about during an extensive viewing tour through the stocks of the most important distributors in New York, Chicago and San Francisco.
Spread over nine bloc…
For a long time, independent, non-commercial films were almost culturally invisible. Today, they are emerging from this isolation. The boundaries between the different film styles, the various production methods and the different ways of addressing viewers are being erased.
"Footage" is the American technical term for film material. It is derived…