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…
Behind the Iron Gate
The film portrays everyday life in the communist era housing estate Za Zelazna Brama (‘Behind the Iron Gate’). The housing estate was built by a team of architects between 1965-1972 in the center of Warsaw on the ruins…
Erase Remake
Erase Remake is the film version of a performance that Jan Machacek and Martin Siewert first presented in 2006 in Vienna and Trento, Italy. A camera module, mounted inside of a scanner, renders precise close-ups and…
The Green Bag
The Green Bag is a single take, 7 minute real-time documentary shot from the terrace of the Circle Hotel restaurant in Gondor, Ethiopia. While it allows a brief look at the density and multiplicity of everyday…
Home
The two French businessmen look especially out of place in the lush green of the Styrian forest. But that is simply consistent, as Patric Chiha's short fiction film Home tells of what it is like to be in the wrong place…
Kip Masker
The absurd combination of the body and the misappropriated use of clothing enlist the viewer into a fluid stream of sculptural moments and constructs that dissolve after a fleeting manifestation. (…) The performance…
Lonely at the Top
"We're going to exaggerate shamelessly." This sentence is spoken over black film by Lucy McEvil, transvestite, singer and passionate resident of Vienna, at the beginning of Wolfgang Muhr's short portrait. Hyperbole is a…
Message in a Bottle
A story of a camera from 1987, a dysfunctional relationship and the fresh start that ensued. On the videotape: minutiae, anti-Waldheim protests, student demonstrations... Like notes in a bottle, the camera has preserved…
More than just Words
"More than just Words" - doing something rather than just talking about a problem. In February 1984, 50 Austrians formed the work brigade “February ’34” and set off for Nicaragua. They were moved by their solidarity…
Peekaboo
Animated film, drawn directly on the 35mm-filmmaterial. Filmmaker Sabine Groschup illustrates her own grandmother's narration of growing up in the countryside.
Phaidon - Publishers in Exile
The film turns first to the history of the Phaidon Press, which was founded in 1923 by Béla Horovitz in Vienna. Horovitz and his partner Ludwig Goldscheider were interested in publishing books whose layout should…
Windows - 3 Movements
Other people lean out the window and look into the yard below. I sit by the window and look over the parapet ...
The film tells of the desire to get up, bend over the ledge or roll out onto an imaginary balcony to…