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The first thing to stand out about this film is its remarkable formal decency. Although even the title makes one expect mathematical approach, the fact is that Cynthia Madansky and Angelika Brudniak’s documentary…
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6 Found Footage Film Miniatures 2004
Echo-Echo.Echo-Echo is a recycled film which uses scenes left over from a few films I made over the past seven years. Echo-Echo’s associative structure combines these imperfect scenes which now work.Home Fun While…
About the Inside, from the Outside
A room with a person in erect posture. The person is naked, the room empty, undefined, like a camera obscura. The Filmmaker only shoots the outward appearance. But he shows an exterior that weaves itself into the…
Accelerando
A cinematic essay about the analytical power of utopias as depicted in early documentary films and political pamphlets, centering on excerpts of «Fabrik Poldihütte», a fragment of an early Austrian sponsored film about…
Actually, Everything Is Completely Different
The onset of the film Actually, Everything Is Completely Different must have begun with questions such as these: How do you portray someone who has put his artistic energy into making portraits of artists for more than…
A Letter to Mohamed
Lettre à Mohamed is a cinematic letter to a friend in Belgium, to Mohamed, who left Tunisia. “Fleeing” and “self-immolation” have the same word root in Arabic - fire. Christine Moderbacher thus connects her letter to…
Alferjewo
The initial material for Thomas Steiner`s video ALFERJEWO (the perplexing title identifies a place in Russia the filmmaker visited) are innumerable snapshots of ticket counters, train platforms, people in train…
A Million in Debt is Normal, My Grandfather Said
Standard in the 70s: The audiovisual memory industry and its amateur-filmmaker cohorts produced vast numbers of images depicting the economic boom and petit bourgeois families who presume they're happy: vacations by the…
Andri 1924 - 1944
How one can tell a story which is known from hearsay only? A story, which was never written down, a story illustrated hardly by any picture. The story of someone`s life which ends after twenty years in murder, a story,…