„Wie kommt die Kunst zum Film? Wie kommt der Film zur Kunst?“
Filmschau und Panel
Samstag, 10. September 2022
METRO Kinokulturhaus
Johannesgasse 41010 Wien
freier Eintritt / Zählkarten an der Kassa
In Kooperation mit der Kunstmesse viennacontemporary (8. bis 11. September 2022 im Wiener Kursalon) veranstaltet die Akademie des Österreichischen Films am 10. September im METRO Kinokulturhaus einen Tag zur Schnittstelle von Kunst und Film. Gezeigt werden Filme, die einen Kontext zur (bildenden) Kunst haben und/oder deren Filmemacher:innen sich als Vertreter:innen beider Welten sehen.
Katrina Daschner - in Person at Filmmuseum - September 15, 2022
Katrina Daschner's film and video work is opulent, carnivalesque, and visionary. In a multilayered mix combining different artistic forms and media, Daschner exhausts the possibilities offered by the New Burlesque for gallantry, masquerade, resistance, eccentricity, and a love of surfaces and objects. She creates a cosmos where queer is experienced as a collective utopia spanning styles and genres and transcending the concerns of queer subjectivity. In this iridescent, fleshy, and intersectional universe that is always a stage, she charges "queer" with the identity-disintegrating power at the historical roots of the experiment: sexual desire as a desire for changes in the (neo-)liberal, hetero-patriarchal, social order. A significant share of this power is generated by Daschner's LGBTIQ+-guided, sex positive artistic community work – as part of the musical performance collective SV DAMENKRAFT (with Sabine Marte, Gin Müller, Christina Nemec) and "CLUB BURLESQUE BRUTAL," which she founded and led from 2009–2014. Like everything she does, her work on film is also extensive – a network of performance, textile, architecture, sculpture, music, and borrowings from early cinema that explodes patriarchal norms, constraints, gazes, and poses. (Katharina Müller / Translation: Ted Fendt)
programin context of the exhibition: "BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! Thousand Years of Troubled Genders" - Katrina Daschner - at Kunsthalle Wien until october 23,.2022
Living Together and 5pm Seaside in competition at Sarajevo Film Festival!
We are very happy to announce invitations to the 28th Sarajevo Film Festival (August 12th-19th 2022) for Thomas Fuerhapter’s documentary feature Zusammenleben / Living Together that takes a close look on intercultural exchange within a specific setting, the so-called “integration courses” in Vienna, and for Valentin Stejskal’s narrative short 5pm Seaside in which two men leave the safe space of their self-chosen isolation to encounter one another.
Heartfelt congrats to the filmmaker’s and their teams – and a great festival to everyone present in Sarajevo!
Brent Klinkum (1960-2022)
Today we receive the very sad news that our longtime friend and fellow member Brent Klinkum passed away quite suddenly while hiking. Brent will be remembered as a passionate person, brimming with wit, who loved cinema culture in all its formulations. In 2012, with great esprit and an unusual approach, Brent curated the retrospective Breaking Ground for sixpackfilm, an appreciation of Austrian experimental film history over the past 60 years. It is an abrupt departure, very painful for all who knew him. Our heartfelt condolences go out to the relatives and friends.
Golden Medusa Awards 2022
At the award show of first QUEERTACTICS short film competition for queer_feminist works, the following winners were celebrated in Vienna: The GOLDEN MEDUSA for the "most challenging gender portrayals" went to The zip of my pants is open. Like my heart. by Marie Luise Lehner, a GOLDEN MEDUSA for the "queerest aesthetic realization" went to WET STREAMING III - fuck my ficus by Aaron Scherer, Eva Sommer, and Daniela Zahlner - and the GOLDEN MEDUSA for the "most successful documentation of queer community" was awarded to TRANS*GAZE by Rosa Wiesauer.
sixpackfilm congratulates all award winners. Bookings for The zip of my pants is open. Like My Heart. and TRANS*GAZE are happily accepted any time!
Voguing performance by Kiki House of Dive (Photo: Jana Madzigon)
Will my parents come to see me? by Mo Harawe awarded AUSTRIAN SHORT FILM PRIZE at Vienna Shorts
With the great award as best contribution in the Austrian competition, Will my parents come to see me? -> by Mo Harawe (which premiered at this year's Berlinale) also qualifies for the Short Film Oscar as well as the European Film Awards and the Austrian Film Awards. Congratulations Mo, and we are happy working with you !
to the jury statements of all prizes of VIS Vienna Shorts 2022
Freies Kino / Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus: Michaela Grill - it's a wild world
in presence of the director: Tuesday, June, 7, 2022, 20:00h - free entrance
Jan Soldat with STAGING DEATH invited to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes
with Jan Soldat's furious found footage homage to the German actor Udo Kier, once again a film from the sixpack repertoire was invited to the Quinzaine des réalisateurs in Cannes.
A sixpack of awards at BAA and a Local Artist Award at Crossing Europe
We are very happy that at the Best Austrian Animation Festival in Vienna, organized by ASIFA, several awards were handed out to works from the sixpackfilm program:
The main prize (ex aequo) went to Leopold Maurer for Crisis, "best narrative work" was There is exactly enough time by Oskar Salomonowitz & Virgil Widrich, "best experimental work" Warten by Bernd Oppl and the award for "best analog / hybrid technique" went to On the Bottom of the laundrybag by Adele Razkövi. Anna Vasof and Veronika Schubert both received audience awards for Amazon Woman and for Mindset respectively.
Meanwhile at Crossing Europe Filmfestival Linz Jola Wieczorek got the CROSSING EUROPE Award - Local Artist for her stunning feature length documentary Stories from The Sea (photo: © a_kep // subtext.at).
Heartfelt congrats to all filmmakers!
International Shortfilm Festival Oberhausen 2022
Two intenational premieres in the international competition (SEKUNDENFALLE by Christiana Perschon & Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories by Anna Vasof), a distributors program and a couple of films included in special programs. We are happy again about the great presence at one of the most important festivals of artistic short film.
