The divided sky
Wed April 17, 2013 - Sat April 27, 2013, 9 p.m.
mumok kino, na dalokal, Top Kino, filmmuseum, AzW, tanzquartier Wien

We borrowed the title for the new sixpackfilm festival from the book by Christa Wolf and the film adaptation of the same name by Konrad Wolf. The divided sky seemed so appropriate for this special variant of traveling cinema: the endless horizon, the possibility of gaining diverse impressions and insights both aesthetically and in terms of content…

Breaking Ground – 60 Years of Austrian Experimental Cinema
Tue Feb. 21, 2012 - Tue March 27, 2012, 9 p.m.
Filmhaus-Kino Wien

In March 1994, one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of Austrian avant-garde film to date was launched at the Art Institute of Chicago in the USA: eight programs, curated by the director of the San Francisco Cinematheque Steve Anker, which toured the world following the Chicago show and were shown in a total of 23 cities (including Stadtkin…

One Step, One Dance, One Song
Sat May 29, 2010, 22:00 h
Metro Kino, Wien

Choreography in film is as old as film itself. It therefore goes without saying that the media of film and video are used and sought as interdisciplinary forms of expression for the art of dance. Conversely, filmmakers use motifs from dance or choreographed movement as central building blocks in their works. Of course, this program only offers an …

13 Lessons in Performance Art
Thu Nov. 19, 2009 - Sat Nov. 28, 2009, 9 p.m.
Top-Kino

Performance art is currently booming as a form of artistic expression. The art genre not only combines all disciplines from theater, dance, actionism, painting to pop culture, it also enables the merging of subjective experiences and socio-political issues. Despite numerous differences between contemporary and historical performances, which certai…

VISIONary. Innovative Film from Austria
Fri May 1, 2009 - Thu May 7, 2009, 9:30 p.m.
Filmschau / Bundesländertournee Vermittlungsprogramm für Schulen

VISIONary sees itself as a mediator of innovative positions in contemporary Austrian audiovisual art, specifically short films, experimental films, documentaries and music videos, which are rarely shown outside the Viennese art house cinemas and festivals in the federal states.

At the beginning of the 1950s, a new development in cinematography be…

Maths in Motion
Fri Aug. 29, 2003 - Sat Sept. 27, 2003, 10 p.m.
Künstlerhauskino Wien

Mathematical concepts in experimental film and video. The title of the film/video show is a paraphrase of an influential manifesto by the Hungarian Bauhaus master and constructivist Lászlò Moholy-Nagy, which was first published posthumously in 1947: "Vision in Motion". The "strict" spirit of mathematics is ostentatiously put in the p…

Film speaks many languages. 12 years sixpackfilm
Sat Nov. 23, 2002 - Fri Nov. 29, 2002, 8:30 p.m.
Österreichisches Filmmuseum Wien

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…

Early Cinema and the Avantgarde. Films and Symposion
Fri March 8, 2002 - Fri March 8, 2002, 10 p.m.
Stadtkino Wien

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 big screen
Fri Dec. 8, 2000 - Thu Dec. 21, 2000, 10 p.m.
Stadtkino Wien

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 …

Austrian Avant-Garde Cinema. 1952 – 1994
Mon June 19, 1995 - Sun June 25, 1995, 9 p.m.
Stadtkino / Filmhaus-Kino

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…