Die Orte der Zeit

Hans Scheugl, Jahrgang 1940, ist ein Pionier eines in Österreich stark entwickelten experimentellen Kinos, das 1968 in der Austria Filmmakers Cooperative einen wirkungsvollen Zusammenschluss erfuhr. Er zählt zu den zentralen Chronisten seiner Zeit. Ohne seine Bücher Erweitertes Kino. Die Wiener Filme der 60er Jahr…

For the first time, sixpackfilm, Breitenseer Lichtspiele and Filmmuseum are joining forces to present the two programme series IN PERSON and FOCUS ON, showcasing the work of Austrian-Bulgarian film artist Borjana Ventzislavova, whose works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and media art and film festivals worldwide, including Belvedere 21…

Thirteen years ago, Kurdwin Ayub was first honored with a special at the Viennale. At the time, the filmmaker—born in Iraq and raised in Vienna—was just 22 years old and already making waves with her performative video works. Her pop-cultural exploration of gender clichés, authenticity, and self-staging was as radical as it was …

Jan Soldat is one of the most unconventional filmmakers of our time, his films have been shown at renowned festivals such as Cannes, the Berlinale, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary, as well as at short, porn and niche festivals. His films can be roughly categorized into two groups of works:
1. date films, special documentary forms, which successively cr…

MONOGRAPHIE / Viennale

 A cooperation between Viennale and sixpackfilm, curated by Daniela Zahlner and Dietmar Schwärzler.

Programm 1: TRANCE
with a concert/Live act by JUNG AN TAGEN  
TEOCALLI, 2024, 41 min  
20.10.2024, 7.00 p.m., Filmmuseum

TEOCALLI is one of the most recent productions by Los Ingrávidos, whose ever-…

"The beginning began with a downfall as always when I begin," wrote artist and filmmaker Friederike Pezold in 1979 about the creation of her film Toilette. At this point the work had already celebrated its premiere at the Berlinale Forum. Downfall was averted and a virtue was made out of necessity. This already establishes some of the core, resist…

Cause of Death (AT/ZA 2020, 20 min)
When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Black Man (AT/ZA 2017, 10 min)
Loving in Between (AT/ZA 2023, 18 min)

Jyoti Mistry’s archival trilogy on race, gender, and sexuality deals with the racialization of Black masculinity and racist violence, intersectional sexism and femicide, queer sexuality and love. The footage …

Who is Susan Mogul? Part of the answer to this question can be found in the pioneering video artworks she made in the early 1970s, which took the form of a performative autobiography staged before the camera. If what we see is to be believed, then Susan Mogul is a decidedly witty feminist with an engaging and expressive laugh, whose work focuses o…

Hito Steyerl needs no introduction. The Munich-born artist, filmmaker, theorist and professor and her work have in the past few years been present at nearly every major event in the art world (documenta, Venice Biennale, Skulptur Projekte Münster, etc.) and she is perceived as one of the most influential contemporary artists. Encompassing eve…

Christiana Perschon approaches her “chosen relatives” Tatjana Gamerith, Linda Christanell, Karin Mack, Lieselott Beschorner, and Isolde Maria Joham without putting the act of documenting or visualizing in the limelight. “To me, this is about the instant of recording,” says Perschon, “a total experience in the moment.&…