One's own or another's body as a playful field of agitation is the central theme of this program. Arendt and Swiczinsky use animation in very different ways to counter classical stagings of femininity with self-sufficient and fluid body structures. Sackl, Kren and Marte struggle with themselves and with irritation. While Marte plays with the dummy…
Socrates says that wanting nothing more is happiness. But perhaps it is also the greatest misfortune when nothing counts for anything, when everything is an expression and nothing is content.
How to become calm is a fictional film about three artists who run a workshop for young workshop for young migrants. The three of them move into a studio…
Illusion-factory Cinema takes a look behind the scenes. Michaela Schwentner condenses a well-known French melodrama with dream-like sequences. Twelve action-packed feature film scenes run in parallel in Johann Lurf's work, revealing their dramaturgical structure. Mara Mattuschka plays the opera diva with dedication and also her old mother with won…
As an audience, we expect to be entertained: Müller/Giradet only show us the look on the faces of the viewers. Without revealing the source of the entertainment, they look at a landscape of laughter, dismay and boredom. These emotions are not alien to the Austrian conscripts on the border with Hungary. Zdesar hands them the camera to document…
Architecture is a broad field. This program brings together works which present artificial spatial cartographies, unusual architectural portraits and deep structures of a small town. While Bruckmayr approaches his processual, autogenerated urban structures predominantly in an abstract manner, Krautgasser, Dabernig, Hollauf, Schreiber and Pirker co…
The "Documentary Reconstructions" program brings together three works that provide insights and reflections through their precise view; they bring to light not only individual facts, but also connections. The expulsion of the Sudeten Germans to a place on the Bavarian-Czech border had a dramatic impact on the lives of Wenzel and Emma.
Even today, t…
The motif of travel is one of the central motifs of Lisl Ponger's film work. Ponger's montage of her own, and later other people's, travel images always manifests a critical questioning of the representation of what is recorded and the illusionary power of the medium. Her most recent film Imago Mundi is therefore consistently concerned with the fu…
Misbehaving is always a matter of definition: Eva Jirička and Katharina Cibulka serve Free Punch at Christmas markets in Vienna. A nice gesture. The stall owners, who verbally and physically threaten the filmmakers, are not so nice. Corinna Schnitt organizes a living room party. Everything with claws and teeth is invited: goats, cows, llamas,…
Upside down we enter the second Ortsschwindel program from sixpackfilm. The Norwegian short film Proximity unceremoniously declares the horizon to be the axis on which the earth's sky and ground clouds are reflected. Current shot 01, Via Carera and Stand back please! question the time-space continuum of a walk.
VERTIGO RUSH transfers the pulsating …
At the beginning there is a transcendental approach to the stadium, which lies like a landed flying object in the emptied periphery of a large city (Jogging). This is followed by two precise observations: Insights into the rituals in the dressing room before a rugby match (Comme un seul homme) and those in the fan sector during a league encounter …