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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…
5 Factories

5 Factories

Processes.
6 Found Footage Film Miniatures 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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,…
A Real Life Behind the Balcony, or Romeo and Juliet Make their Getaway

A Real Life Behind the Balcony, or Romeo and Juliet Make their Getaway

The protagonist Hiltraud Schmidt, a sufferer of a neurological disease, is lovingly called princess by her partner Franz Bittermann. The two of them talk about how they got to know each other and their current…
Atelier de Conversation

Atelier de Conversation

This formally minimalist documentary captures the fleeting moments in which grammatical fumblings and the painstaking search for the right word inadvertently open a window into the human soul.
A Tropical House

A Tropical House

Following his formally taut 2013 film Tower House, A Tropical House is Karl-Heinz Klopf´s second cinematic meditation on an architect´s own home, in this case, that of the Indonesian architect Andra Matin, completed in…
A White Substance

A White Substance

"A White Substance" deals with sexualized violence in wars. Since the war in the Congo in 1996, where the 'first world' first began to take notice of the phenomenon, rape, abuse and murder have become part of the order…
A World Completely Glued to Itself

A World Completely Glued to Itself

“I wanted to show why this country is the way it is.” Hungarian filmmaker Lívia Gyarmathy made this personal intention the challenging leitmotif of her films about socialist Hungary. In 1961, after finishing her studies…
The Bathers

The Bathers

An exhilarating dance of spots of colour and traces of wear and decomposition. The abstract earth-coloured texture is reminiscent of Stan Brakhage`s work.
Behind the Iron Gate

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…
Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen

Seven computers per second are produced worldwide. "Behind the Screen" casts a formidable glance behind the facade of the electronics industry. The starting point is Ghana’s rainforest. There, young gold diggers stand…
Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness

Being and Nothingness transforms a piece of music into a visual and examines the role of humans in this performance of sound and light. After a prologue in which composer and conductor Beat Furrer is shown obtaining and…
Beirut Blend

Beirut Blend

“Blend” is the cut of a type of tobacco that glistens at six places in Beirut under the glowing stone of the water pipe at the film’s center. “Blend” also means “mingling,” to “mix,” resulting in a “mélange.” And this…
Bellavista

Bellavista

Sappada is a linguistic enclave of the Plodar dialect, which is spoken in the Carnian Alps in northern Italy. The black and white film documentation centers around Giuliana who returned home to her parents` Bellavista…
The Benevolent Dictator

The Benevolent Dictator

A Viennese Jew who left Austria in 1938 under the Kindertransport scheme, Norbert Abeles became a British colonial civil servant in Africa in the 1950s. Now in his nineties, he lives in Malawi.
Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted

Bill Posters Will Be Prosecuted

England 2095: The number of crimes commited against women, girls and children has dropped considerably. Why? In her short film Fiona Rukschcio returns to the 1990s to find out the young man Bill Posters.
Black and White the Back of the Images

Black and White the Back of the Images

Which things or events are remembered? How is the Shoah remembered? What role is played in this remembering of the way images are dealt with?
Body Trail

Body Trail

The body as a tool for experiencing spatial dimensions. Body sculptures, which change and adapt to the environment, create new perspectives and insights into architecture and the city - a conceptual filling of empty…
Burning Palace

Burning Palace

Five dancers journey through the emotions of Eros, in reality and in the imagination, in mythology and in the present day. Accompanied by strange seeming sound collages, they stray through the labyrinthine corridors of…
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One of the pragmatic solutions to the problem of how people are able to find their way in a theatre or cinema are the small lights that, hidden in this place or that, show the audience where to step and where not, and…
Cinema Futures

Cinema Futures

Cinema Futures is a time travel to the past and the possible futures of film and cinema.
Closed Quarters

Closed Quarters

"When our grandmother died, the house was simply different...as though we had changed the curtains." The camera explores the geographical and mental space, which is infected with an omnipresent lack after the…
Colonnade Park

Colonnade Park

Colonnade Park, the last part of a documentary trilogy about modernist residential buildings inspecting Rome (Corviale, Il Serpentone, 2001) and Warsaw (Behind the Iron Gate, 2009), allows the director Heidrun Holzfeind…
Comeback

Comeback

An opera diva (Mimi Minus) makes her grand solo appearance. The individual stages of her transformation in the dressing room are celebrated with glamorous gestures; masks and multiple new layers are put on until the…
Copy Shop

Copy Shop

Peculiar irregulatirities such as dog ears on the edges of images and streaks arouse the suspicion that the content of Virgil Widrich`s Copy Shop is not quite able to master the form. Misleading conversations dominate…
Cornelius Kolig. Instructions for Eternity or Don't Fuck with Paradise

Cornelius Kolig. Instructions for Eternity or Don't Fuck with Paradise

Cornelius Kolig’s “paradise” could also be examined from above. One would see an organic building-structure comprising a Sistine chapel, a pantheon, cow and pig stalls, and “a wild intoxicating garden” on a total area…
Current Shot 01

Current Shot 01

At first glance everything seems motionless. A street, passers-by, a sunset, all accompanied by electronic humming: "Current Shot 01" by Stefan Kushima and Philippe Gerlach consists of a single 15-minute shot.
Dance and get him!

Dance and get him!

Tina Leisch´s documentary Dance and get him! presents fifteen Viennese boys and young men from extremely different situations with different languages spoken at home and varying amounts of seed money for the realization…
DMD KIU LIDT

DMD KIU LIDT

DMD KIU LIDT - the title of Georg Tiller’s film sounds mysterious but is a clear reference. In 2011 the band Ja, Panik, put out an eponymous album. The film can be seen as a mood picture, a portrait of the band, yet not…
Domino

Domino

Domino describes a construction system of reinforced concrete developed by Le Corbusier in 1914. This form of construction revolutionized modern architecture, freeing the walls of their carrier function and thereby…
Donald Judd and I

Donald Judd and I

Other than Heinz Emigholz and his systematic research of the work of Rudolph Schindler, Sasha Pirker is more interested in the random, hard to believe stories about the Vienna-born architect. In case of this movie it is…
Don't Piss Down My Black and Tell Me It`s Raining

Don't Piss Down My Black and Tell Me It`s Raining

Eyes looking, telling a story about...observation, integration, manipulation, transformation, protection, trepidation, imagination, consideration, irritation,...a never ending story - facts in real and virtual space.
Double Happiness

Double Happiness

Double Happiness takes the Chinese copy of Hallstatt, a small idyllic town in Austria, as the starting point to explore China’s fast urbanization. Chinese cities are built where histories and memories can be easily…
Earth's Golden Playground

Earth's Golden Playground

Since the first Gold Rush in the late 1890s the Yukon with its legendary Klondike gold fields has been a remote land shrouded in mystery. In times of economic instability the high price of gold makes the search for the…
Egypt 6600 (After Lumier)

Egypt 6600 (After Lumier)

At present the low end in the recording of moving images is occupied by cameras built into Cells which take 12 images per second. The data compression which makes this possible result in the grainiest pixels imaginable
Elektro Moskva

Elektro Moskva

ELEKTRO MOSKVA (Electro Moscow) is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world’s first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the…
Elements

Elements

Elements relates directly to space, to impregnable landscapes and uncertain horizons. As the motifs, taken from the website "Alaska Weather Camera Program", are small airfields in Alaska, the weather conditions there,…
Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed

Elfriede Jelinek – Language Unleashed

Snow-capped mountain tops, picturesque villages, wholesome towns… this is the Austria we know from travel books and travelogues. And it’s the same Austria whose small-town morals have been taking a beating from the…
Erase and Rewind

Erase and Rewind

We find ourselves inside the program of a twenty-first century picture. Its status is oneself's transformation...
Erase Remake

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…
Even Odd Even

Even Odd Even

Even Odd even is the artistic interpretation of time and space, based on analysis of video feedback. It delivers an insight into a fascinating world of spatial complexity and dynamic behavior. The apparently hidden…
Exploration

Exploration

The world "exploration" can refer to both an "examination" and "discovery". The film with this title deals with both meanings simultaneously in a kind of thematic concentration: An examination is shown in a manner which…
Facing Time. Parallel in an Orbit.

Facing Time. Parallel in an Orbit.

Art. Experimental. In 12 time zones around the Earth, two persons spend one hour facing the sun. Simultaneously, they rotate with the Earth and circulate around the sun. Is is about parallelism and circulation, staged…
Fair Wind - Notes of a Traveller

Fair Wind - Notes of a Traveller

Two feet playing in bathwater - the leitmotif for this journey across the land. The traveller sets off, with the Danube taking her to Bulgaria first, then Romania, Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. At the end…
Fast Film

Fast Film

A kiss, a happy couple. But then, the woman is kidnaped, and the man sets off to save her. A dramatic rescue story full of wild chase scenes begins. The audience is taken to the center of the Earth and the enemy`s…
The Female Conductor's Back

The Female Conductor's Back

Given the perspective of orchestra, we see a mid-length portrait of a director leading a rehearsal of Hector Berlioz’s Le Corsaire. The artist is hard at work, fully concentrated, using precise gestures to literally…
FILM IST. a girl & a gun

FILM IST. a girl & a gun

Using images "from the first four and a half decades of cinematography," taken from 11 archives across the world, Gustav Deutsch has constructed a musical "film drama in five acts" (genesis, paradeisos, thanatos,…
Fishing Is Not Done On Tuesdays

Fishing Is Not Done On Tuesdays

Landscape is a question of distance. Patterns and formations become recognizable from a distance revealing the landscape as a fabrication, a result of natural and historical movements. Fishing is not done on Tuesdays…
Focus on Infinity

Focus on Infinity

Focus on Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and of our existence. It is a very personal and intuitive investigation into the roots…
The Folds of the King

The Folds of the King

"The Folds of the King" is a documentary about simultaneous interpreters. Two interpreters sit in a booth. Using headsets, they listen to prerecorded English interview passages (these "originals" are inaudible to the…
Forms in Relation to Life

Forms in Relation to Life

In the 1920s, the Werkbund architectural association stood for a new kind of functional design, sober and unadorned, but meeting residential needs.
Forst

Forst

Forst is a portrayal. The documentary tells about a forest in the middle of Europe far from the urban world and from civilisation, which is home to a peculiar community of the banished. It is a world for the stranded. A…
Fragments local - global

Fragments local - global

Even when someone does not travel, they can still tell stories. Bruch gathers filmed material, which he has commissioned, and brings it together again in a virtual travelogue: Bruchstücke. Bruch, increasingly less…
FtWTF - Female to What The Fuck

FtWTF - Female to What The Fuck

The documentary FtWTF is a precise encounter with the theme of gender transgression, whereby the gender border is crossed in the same direction each time: from a specific starting point (female/woman) to a temporarily…
Fuck the Cancer!

Fuck the Cancer!

Renoldner opens a space that the viewer wants to explore. He exposes himself to let us feel the nakedness of our own mental state. Fuck the Cancer! presents the monster in a way utterly void of drama, which so rarely…
Gibellina - Il Terremoto

Gibellina - Il Terremoto

A massive earthquake destroyed the Sicilian mountain village Gibellina 39 years ago. Hundreds of people died. The survivors eked out a life in meagre barracks for 15 years. Many left the country. The city was rebuilt 18…
Giuliana

Giuliana

On a white background, black rectangles fall from the left upper edge of the picture. They amass to form lager surfaces, to then immediately thereafter shrink or shift on the top of one another, and from time to time be…
Good Life Deal

Good Life Deal

Gerhard, an Austrian, has gone all in: Apartment and accounts are closed, all for Amy, a Thai woman with whom he wants to build a common future. Samira Ghahremani accompanies him to his new home and documents a kind of…
The Green Bag

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…
Handbikemovie

Handbikemovie

The broken cables of Martin Bruch`s handbike - the handlebars of which serve at the same time as a manually operated driving-pedal appear and disappear in a regular rhytm and the lower edge of the screen...
Hello

Hello

In Austria the word "Hallo" is used not only as a greeting, but also as an expression of surprise and acknowledgement. Dietmar Brehm chose this title for his film, as a reference to the moment he found some footage…
Hilda

Hilda

Hilda allows you to enter into the life and thoughts of a humourous 85 year old woman who lives on a farm in the Waldviertel and reflects on love, life, freedom and death.
Home

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…
Home is not Home

Home is not Home

Society usually neither thinks nor talks much about what it feels like to live in an old people's home. "Home is not Home" presents four persons, with very different life stories, who seem to be friends in the home, but…
Hooked

Hooked

Documentary "Hooked" is complicated in a number of ways: Firstly, Harald is not an authentic figure; he’s a fictional condensation from interviews with several different young addicts given a body (lanky) and a voice …
Horizon /1

Horizon /1

A city's horizon. In violent movements: first left, then right; it is scanned, searched. The movement stops abruptly, then accelerates, zooming into the city's core. But the city does not become visible; it remains…
Huh Huh

Huh Huh

Huh Huh, a fragmented re-filming that Dietmar Brehm made of his own home movies from the 1970s, deals with the way in which one`s own film material transforms into "foreign" footage over the course of time.
I Am Sad

I Am Sad

The video I am Sad is a part of a series of works on "digital translations of reality". Fuchead - one of the band projects of cultural workers Bruckmayr/Strohmann - is one of these translation projects.
I.E. [Site01-Isole Eolie]

I.E. [Site01-Isole Eolie]

Stromboli appears briefly, as though lifted by a flash from out of the darkness into which it once again disappears. We than approach the Aeolin Islands. In their cinematic representation, movement and motionlessness…
Images from a Diary of Waiting

Images from a Diary of Waiting

It's spooky here, you have to say, the Burgenland Project. However, the snowy greenish night-vision images created by recruits stationed on the border between Austria and Hungary are not on a search for some wood witch,…
I'm Leo

I'm Leo

I'm Leo shows a figure dressed in red standing in the balcony doorway of the model of a white room and at the same time outside, in the open field. Using a mirror she holds in her hand, Bajtala redirects the sunlight,…
In Free Fall

In Free Fall

"In Free Fall" incorporates a trio of works: Before the Crash, After the Crash and Crash, which tell the story of the current global economic crisis through the example of an aeroplane junkyard in the Californian desert…
Into The White - Portrait of a friend

Into The White - Portrait of a friend

A friend tells of his life himself in a compellingly honest way and of the things that have made him what he is today. The sober narrative of the protagonist and the atmospheric 16 mm film material of the overcast city…
Jakarta Disorder

Jakarta Disorder

It is only the second time that Indonesians can vote for their own president. Two charismatic women, however, are not satisfied with mere elections. Grandma Dela, who lives in a slum of the tropical megacity, and the…
Job Center

Job Center

We first see a roundabout in the periphery, controlling the flow of lorries and cars, before the film reaches its actual destination: the "Jobcenter", a course for unemployed people. How is "success in the job market"…
Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression

Journal No. 1 - An Artist's Impression

What is an archive? What can it tell us? How do we approach it and make it work for us? Journal No. 1 takes its title from the first newsreel made in Bosnia in1947, which was lost during the war in the early 1990s.…
Kanegra

Kanegra

Dreams of longing, mental diversions, soul-searching. Hardly any other place is more apt for intense contemplation that the sea. The experience of this fact provides the starting point of Katharina Copony`s…
Kilvo

Kilvo

A remote, barren, almost unfriendly landscape: Kilvo in Lapland was the inspiration for Radian`s music, and even the accompanying visuals by Michaela Grill play with the bare countryside`s resistance to its depiction.
Kip Masker

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…
Lampedusa

Lampedusa

A woman, a man. The island of Lampedusa, where their escape routes intersect.
Lancia Thema

Lancia Thema

Lancia Thema is a film about a trip with an unusual destination, along unfamiliar landmarks. The close-mouthed protagonist (Dabernig himself) passes through deteriorating Mediterranean countryside in the eponymous sedan…
Last Shelter

Last Shelter

Afghani and Pakistani refugees occupy a church in Vienna to protest against negative asylum decisions.
Last Supper

Last Supper

A home movie from the 1960s: A man and a woman are eating and drinking. Gradually the film strip begins to crack, scratches appear, the colors change, and it dissolves. In the same way as the memories of these events…
Late Blossom Blues

Late Blossom Blues

Heavy gait, bent posture, shortness of breath - an old man, wrinkled and slow. But as soon as he hits the strings of his pink guitar and starts singing with the Blue Notes, unforeseen energies are revealed behind the…
Legal Errorist

Legal Errorist

A performance of transformation, a transformance, changes its medium and encounters a camera, which plays dance music - under the secret eye of a room that bends and twists along with it.
Le Grand Content

Le Grand Content

Le Grand Content is a subversive undertaking: It demonstrates how systematically disorientation can take place, how logical nonsense can seem. The well-organized presentation, despite its authoritative appearance, does…
Little Perestroika

Little Perestroika

The setting for the film is the Kyrgyz Republic. The production took place just as the country had seen the end of its second democratic revolution (after the Tulip Revolution in 2005) - a violent, ethnic conflict…
Lonely at the Top

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…
Love History

Love History

The film is about women in Austria and Germany tracing their Nazi family history. They research the historical facts as well as the marks this past has left on their lives: how does it affect their personal…
Lovely Andrea

Lovely Andrea

If all pictures became current, in that they pass by and in doing so, are connectable with one another, whether elegantly or obscenely, through translation or association-how would it be possible to fasten down a…
The Lovers

The Lovers

The Lovers is the second part of a small triology, dealing with the extinction of memories. In the first part, The Bathers, two protagonists were subject to the chemical decomposition of the film material. The Lovers,…
Low Definition Control – Malfunctions #0

Low Definition Control – Malfunctions #0

Regardless of where we walk or where we stand, we’re being watched: In a society in which the public space is primarily regarded a source of risks, nearly everything depends on constant surveillance. And so the most…
Luukkaankangas - Updated, Revisited

Luukkaankangas - Updated, Revisited

In Findland, webcams of the Finish Road Administration permanently record pictures od all important roads. These image are then placed to the internet at an interval of fifteen to thirty minutes. Before they departure,…
Making Off (Germania Dreamland)

Making Off (Germania Dreamland)

Making Off (Germania Dreamland) is a complex observation of history as constituted by an argument that remains purposely fragmentary: Three young men with migrant backgrounds fly around to the music of George Bizet´s…
MappaMundi

MappaMundi

MappaMundi is particularly relevant today as a film about changing perceptions of the world, corresponding demarcations and dubious real world consequences.
Maria Theresia and her 16 children

Maria Theresia and her 16 children

Artist duo BitteBitteJaJa (Ulu Braun and Roland Rauschmeier) employed sixteen portraits of Maria Theresia’s children to combine little known historical facts about the lives of the legendary empress’ offspring and a…
Marina and Sasha, Coalshippers

Marina and Sasha, Coalshippers

Waiting "as if for God," two Russian sailors, Marina and Sascha, look forward to the ice-free season on Lake Baikal, where they transport coal on their barge. They take loads on board in Kultuk, and unload them in…
Message in a Bottle

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…
Michael Berger - A Hysteria

Michael Berger - A Hysteria

The subject of the film, Austrian investment banker Michael Berger, who became a dollar millionaire through a risky hedge fund, remains a chimera - an absent individual who also cannot be captured through his crime.…
Minot, North Dakota

Minot, North Dakota

How do people get along with the knowledge that they live on an enormous bomb? A penetrating portrait of a closed community. Minot, nicknamed 'Magic City', is the proud home of a U.S. Air Force base guarding 150 nuclear…
Mirror Mechanics

Mirror Mechanics

The film as a mirror and, consequentlially, phenomenon of identification primarily inherent in feature films, condense to a type of essence of film`s potential. This reports on cinema and the processes within it.
Mississippi

Mississippi

Nature is not what differentiates between chaos and structure, the observer does through his or her choice of point of view and representational technique. In the tradition of avant-garde film subduing chaos through…
Moghen paris – and all come along

Moghen paris – and all come along

It´s the way it is: a billowing structure, a big confusion, un gran casino. Pork ears sticky with blood combined with a plastic sieve become a hat; a desolate heating plate becomes best friend to the man on a leash. The…
Monroc

Monroc

"Lost Destinations" is the name of a Web site dedicated to obscure locations in the USA. "Abandoned, unusual, wild and weird road trip photography and beyond" is presented for the viewer's pleasure, including…
More than just Words

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…
Mosaic Mécanique

Mosaic Mécanique

All shots of the slapstick comedy A Film Johnnie (USA, 1914) are shown simultaneously in a symmetrical grid, one after the other. Each scene, from one cut to the next, from the first to the last frame, is looped. A…
The Mozart Minute

The Mozart Minute

28 well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006 (VIENNA MOZART YEAR 2006), to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. The only requirement: They had to be one-minute art…
Natasha

Natasha

Ulli Gladik meets Natasha the beggar in Graz and, after a number of conversations, accompanies Natasha to her home of Breznik, a former industrial town near Sofia. Over a period of two years, Gladik, a combination…
Newspaper Only

Newspaper Only

Ulrike Muller and Carola Dertnig take only one minute to look, under somewhat different conditions, at the daily ritual of reading the newspaper.
Notes on Marie Menken

Notes on Marie Menken

Notes on Marie Menken explores the almost forgotten story of the legendary artist Marie Menken (1909 - 1970), who was one of New York's outstanding underground experimental filmmakers of the Fifties and Sixties,…
Nothing In It

Nothing In It

Nothing In It is a short documentary showing two women at work. One woman goes about her daily tasks as an Alpine herdswoman, just as she has done for decades. The other woman is a filmmaker who intends to shoot a…
Notorious Deeds

Notorious Deeds

During the final weeks preceding the Revolution of 1989, the Mihai Viteazul secondary school in Bucharest was shocked by an incident which once more revealed Ceausescu´s totalitarian regime. A student had hung posters…
Odessa

Odessa

A grand, absurd drama: The crew of a confiscated cruise ship is forced to spend seven years in a foreign harbor. Left to their own designs by a bankrupt company and ignored by the Ukrainian authorities, sailors on the …
O! FORTUNA! work in progress I-VI

O! FORTUNA! work in progress I-VI

Work is not the first thing that comes to the mind of the goddess of happiness.
Of Stains, Scrap and Tires

Of Stains, Scrap and Tires

Of Stains, Scrap & Tires is a calm, documentary miniature that chooses the auto export business of three young Nigerians in the Erzberg region as a point of association and departure for formulating something more...
Olya's Love

Olya's Love

A gentle awakening. The young Galiya has fallen asleep on the sofa; her eyes first open from the laugh of a woman’s voice and a loving touch.
One out of 8

One out of 8

The personal story of two women, who are afflicted by breast cancer.
One Year Later. Interviews and Radio

One Year Later. Interviews and Radio

The travelogue as a seismograph of the state of the nation: Niki Lerch`s film follows a simple experiment to investigate the traumatization of the American public after the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
On the Main Square, at the Forest

On the Main Square, at the Forest

Off-camera a female teenager talks about the public spaces in the village where she and her friends spend their free time. Sofie Thorsen juxtaposes the description of everyday life using the precision of her black-and…
Optical Vacuum

Optical Vacuum

Webcams have made it possible for the Internet "to have eyes," reflecting society from a subjectless and anonymous perspective. Over the past years, Dariusz Kowalski has downloaded surveillance sequences from various…
O.T.

O.T.

For visual structures both live action and animated bed were interviewed by means of multiple explosures. This material went through a digital post-production process which included alteration of the colours and…
Out of Time

Out of Time

Ostensibly a look at four old-world Austrian businesses that won't survive gentrification, this rewarding documentary is really about the quiet moments and the banter that takes place among the aging proprietors.…
Pan

Pan

A panorama of World divided into three. The camera’s 360° pan begins at a playground and passes by everyday scenes of urban life: pedestrians, cars, shops – before returning to its starting point. The field of view is…
Paradies! Paradies!

Paradies! Paradies!

Vienna, Austria. A doctor´s office, two young men, patients; the doctor introduces his daughter, Kurdwin, who is planning a reportage on him and Kurdistan. Thus begins a complex, soft melodrama with home video moments:…
Paranoia (Death Valley)

Paranoia (Death Valley)

The original meaning of the word paranoia is beside-mind (paranoia: Gr., from para- "beside, beyond" + noos- "mind.") A woman moves through the camera's line of vision in California's Death Valley. Our relationship with…
The Passion according to the Polish Community of Pruchnik

The Passion according to the Polish Community of Pruchnik

In the small town of Pruchnik, near the remote Bieszczady Mountains in the south-eastern part of Poland, villagers gather every year on Good Friday to "punish" Judas for his betrayal of Jesus. The film explores the thin…
Patchwork

Patchwork

Several repetition of a minimal difference generates layers of colour which then cover the representational images.
Pawel and Wawel

Pawel and Wawel

Pawel and Wawel gathers unique images and sounds from a journey through Iceland that position themselves between documentary gesture and performative strategy.
Peekaboo

Peekaboo

Animated film, drawn directly on the 35mm-filmmaterial. Filmmaker Sabine Groschup illustrates her own grandmother's narration of growing up in the countryside.
The Persian Crocodile

The Persian Crocodile

In a remote area of southern Iran, two rangers come to rescue an adult freshwater crocodile that has been trapped inside a concrete sump. With simple means, a forked wooden club, a heavy blanket and some nylon rope,…
Pessac - Life In A Laboratory

Pessac - Life In A Laboratory

For Charles-Eduard Jeanneret, an architect who called himself Le Corbusier, the Pessac housing complex was the first opportunity to design architecture for "entirely normal" people. He has already drafted cities for up…
Phaidon - Publishers in Exile

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…
Phantom Foreign Vienna

Phantom Foreign Vienna

A Taiwanese celebration, a Nigerian Harvest thanksgiving, a Turkish wedding, the official state holiday of the Ivory Coast, a Thai New Year, a Roma meeting, a Czech booze up.
Picture Again

Picture Again

There is something ghostly about Picture Again: Its images jerk, showing silhouettes of people, transparent and immaterial, mere cinematic phantasms.
Players

Players

Rustem, 23, plays poker. Born and raised in Russia, he lives in Berlin. A.k.a. Puma23 xxxx, Rustem has already won more than 100,000 dollars. He starts travelling to poker tournaments across Europe. The computer…
Ralf´s Colors

Ralf´s Colors

Ralf's Colors is an experimental portrait of a schizophrenic person living in Lanzarote (Canary islands), whom I accompanied for over 5 years.
Remembering the Children

Remembering the Children

France 1942 - 1944. The deportation of more than 11,000 Jewish children towards Nazi concentration camps. Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, the well-known Nazi hunters, present new material from detailed historical research.…
Riding My Tiger (A Cinéma Very Vérité)

Riding My Tiger (A Cinéma Very Vérité)

The filmmaker Ascan Breuer searches for the spirit of a tiger said to have haunted the house of his ancestors on Java. Locating this spirit is no easy matter, as it must be summoned in a respectful manner. A number of…
Romanes

Romanes

The camp, home to Roma and located in Rome’s Centocello neighborhood, represents normality. The world outside is a “hobby” and they don’t know precisely what it is. Or it’s a dream that fills out their reality. Reality…
Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories

Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories

“Saving Some Random Insignificant Stories” is a goodbye film to my parents’ house. One night in December 2021, after an unusually extreme weather event, my parents’ house flooded, and they had to be rescued by a boat.…
#schooltrip

#schooltrip

In a chronologically arranged three-part documentary work, Wolf-Maximilian Liebich accompanies a graduating high school class on their excursion to the former concentration camps Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau.…
Seized

Seized

Since 1999 the Neapolitan authorities have seized about 50 ships from various international flag states and stored them at San Vincenzo pier. This is a restricted military area. Only one ship, the Current Vallentta of…
Shadowland

Shadowland

Shadowland explores an impact of a Total eclipse of the Sun on the community of eclipse chasers in Faroe Islands. By appropriating the term "shadowland", a spatiotemporal space when Sun is fully eclipsed, the film…
The Shadow of the Prophet

The Shadow of the Prophet

In "Shadows of the Prophet" Philipp Mayrhofer and Christian Kobald investigate the past and present of the unique iconic image of the founder of the Mourides the strongest African Islamic brotherhood in black Africa. It…
Shimmer

Shimmer

A collage of fragmented shots of an apartment captured on 16mm film might seem mundane at first glance, but in the urgent density of light, material, and movement, it evokes a special emotional rhythm, which is…
Sinus_Passage

Sinus_Passage

In the video to the song Sinus_Passage by the group Fuckhead, pictures generate from sounds. An "audion machine" sends acoustics data signals to a "video machine" whose software reshapes sound into symbolic views.
Stick Climbing

Stick Climbing

A contemplative walk leads to a bizarre climbing tour. The camera that has just panned over everyday village life now homes in on a construction of wooden slats to then follow a breakneck route up a vertical rock face.…
Strangers

Strangers

Stranger is about the performativity of our everyday behavior. It strages and documents it as the coexistence of making sense and senselessness.
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution1

Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution1

The first part of Structural filmwaste seems to be a reaction to the aesthetic methods of past Austrian avant-garde films: Leftover footage (Ernst Schmidt Jr.) was put together according to rigid plans (Kurt Kren) and…
Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution2

Structural Filmwaste. Dissolution2

Structual Filmwaste. Dissolution 2 is the continuation of investigations into the fragmentation of time and images through video. It also represents an attempt to reveal the material nature of this vehicle of illusions.
Subverses. China in Mozambique

Subverses. China in Mozambique

Ella Raidel’s documentary film "Subverses. China in Mozambique" begins with images of a Chinese business man on a terrace over the roofs of Maputo, doing business on his mobile phone. He stands with his back to us,…
Supercargo

Supercargo

A Trivial Pursuit card, as it´s called in the film, locates the so-called cargo cult on the oceanic Vanuatu Island. The cult involves indigenous population groups imitating U.S. soldiers with equipment made of simple…
SW-NO 04

SW-NO 04

The village of Reinsberg, Lower Austria on he level of its images. Idyllic green landscapes of mountains and meadows recur in paintings and postcards in interior spaces such as living rooms and taverns, thereby making…
Tell Me on Tuesday

Tell Me on Tuesday

".... Is there in the world, Milena, as much patience as is necessary for me? Tell me on Tuesday." wrote Franz Kafka in a letter to Milena Jesenská. Kafka's longing to see Milena again, before he was able to spend four…
Terminal Identity #4

Terminal Identity #4

In subjective takes, a shaky hand-held camera shows repetitions of walks through various street corners of a city.
Things.Places.Years.

Things.Places.Years.

Often, in their representation, experiences of expulsion, emigration and the Holocaust are treated as things of the past. The documentary Thing.Places.Years recognises the past as part of the present.
This Movie is a Gift

This Movie is a Gift

THIS MOVIE IS A GIFT is a movie about the artist Daniel Spoerri.
Tibet revisited

Tibet revisited

Ten years after creating his trael documentary Tibetische Erinnerungen (Tibetan Memories) in 1995, Ma,fred Neuwirth returned to Tibet. He traveled to Lhasa and in the surrounding area and remained faithful to his …
The Ties that bind

The Ties that bind

Just as I thought that I could finally put my feelings for my parents and my origins to rest, my father decided to leave me his crumbling farmhouse. This stone inheritance is supposed to tie me again to the place where…
Tlatelolco

Tlatelolco

The square in the center of the Tlatelolco-Nonoalco quarter is a veritable epicenter in the pages of Mexican history: the Aztecs retreated to this area under Cuauhtémoc before their ultimate defeat by the Spanish…
Totó

Totó

When he was a young rebel, Toto turned his back on his native town and has been living between worlds ever since, with his language, his feelings and his dreams. Born in Tropea, in Calabria, and married to a Viennese…
Tough Cookies

Tough Cookies

Boxing is a brutal sport. A men’s world. But what if women box? Tiffanie loves Hip Hop and beautiful women. As an amateur boxer, she wants to qualify for the Olympic Games. Jaci, a professional, eats, drinks and sleeps…
Tower House

Tower House

Tower House is an experimental documentary about a house of the same name in Tokyo, built by Takamitsu Azuma in 1966. The Tower House was erected on a 20-square-meter plot of land and from the moment of its creation it…
The Trapdoor (Daddy what did you do ...?)

The Trapdoor (Daddy what did you do ...?)

There is no such thing as an innocent image. In the process of constructing a personal history we attempt to forget unwanted events. Whole nations and entiry cultures do the same, generating official versions of history…
Traveller's Tales

Traveller's Tales

From the mobility of image-making to discursive images of mobility: Tim Sharp`s video work does not only pursue these movements thematically, but demonstrates the transition in the form of complex acts of montage.
Travels in his own room

Travels in his own room

The first words, even before the first image appears. A voice whines something difficult to understand, rhymes from another world. The light goes on, Gerhard Amanshauser sits at a large microphone. This is the beginning…
Un Solo Colore

Un Solo Colore

The tiny municipality of Camini lies 15 kilometres from the Ionic Sea. At first glance, Camini is indistinguishable from the many other villages forgotten by time in the southern Italian province of Reggio di Calabria.…
Vanishing Points

Vanishing Points

In the beginning was the black ellipse. Nana Swiczinsky presents this form, which she also identifies as the "geometric proto-cell," as the starting material for her film Points Of View (1999). Adventurous distortions…
Walking on a Thin Line

Walking on a Thin Line

Ibo is twenty-six and battling: against getting older, and in the boxing ring. For six months, Vedran Kos accompanies the energy-draining preparations for Ibo’s first amateur fight.
Water from Grain

Water from Grain

The poetry of Water from Grain grows out of an apparent contradiction stemming from its seeming timelessness while it plays out on the clearly recognizable outskirts of Vienna in the years of 2011 and 2012. Josephine…
Way of Passion

Way of Passion

In the introduction to his film, Joerg Burger first presents the site of action. It is Trapani, Sicily; and its inhabitants are preparing for the Good Friday procession that has taken place annually for 400 years. They…
We are all Kanaken

We are all Kanaken

Archival footage »Neuguinea Papua« by Adele Kraft (Österreichisches Filmmuseum) and materials from the archives of Weltmuseum Wien and MARKK Hamburg
What Remains

What Remains

The household of a Lisbon family is abandoned after a century, and turns into a hub of a biographical and contemporary investigation.
What the wind took away

What the wind took away

Despite having lost everything, the Yazidi women Hedil and Naam are struggling for a humane life for their families. In the Yazidi massacre by the terrorist organisation "Islamic State" they were forced to leave their…
When It Blinds, Open Your Eyes

When It Blinds, Open Your Eyes

Zhanna and Lyosha are survivors. At the beginning of the 1990s when Russia was in turmoil, they became addicted to heroin. Today, Zhanna and Lyosha are a couple in their mid-thirties living in a cramped apartment in St.…
Windows - 3 Movements

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…
Wolff von Amerongen - Did He commit Bancruptcy Offences?

Wolff von Amerongen - Did He commit Bancruptcy Offences?

History" records history as a rush of events from an infamous life, Friedl`s first full-lenght film shows us global capital in its roars and ecstasies, its infamy and deliquency. Capital is global as an all-embracing…
World Mirror Cinema. Episode 1-3

World Mirror Cinema. Episode 1-3

Episode 1: Kinomatograf Theater Erdberg, Wien 1912. Episode 2: Apollo Theater, Surabaya 1929. Episode 3: Cinema Sao Mamede Infesta, Porto 1930. In Gustav Deutsch`s most recent found footage work, the masses "absorb" (as…
You Will Never Understand This

You Will Never Understand This

This movie is about three women who belong to what is historically refered to as the generation of perpetrators and victims. With their different stories of life, different narrations and memories they all belong to one…
Zement

Zement

At first glance idyllic landscape images from Salzkammergut expose traces of the Nazi past. Shots remain static; a woman’s voice dryly contributing information from off screen is all that clarifies the context...
Zijkfijergijok

Zijkfijergijok

Electronic exorcism? Computerized global burning? Digital dance of death? In the beginning reMi`s video Zijkfijergijok makes a textual reference to eschatology and other finalities. Excerpts of collages from old folio…
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