Johannes Rosenberger

You see them at the same time you do not see them: Homeless people are often invisible to the rest of the world. In the long-term observation documentary DOWN AND OUT some of them are closely portrayed.

In his complex essay film, Thomas Fürhapter elaborates on these questions. The film peels away the various thematic layers to reveal essential questions regarding birth, normalisation and life optimisation.

How mourning families get the opportunity for a farewell on the open coffin. A film about a less cramped handling with a dead body.

The feature documentary Like the Others depicts the daily work at a child and adolescent psychiatric centre near Vienna, showing the perpetual balancing act between gentle caution and pressure, routine and improvisation.

World War I was the battlefield for the first propaganda war in history. The recently invented and very popular medium of film was used by all military parties to create deception and manipulate public opinion.…

The film portrait Ulrich Seidl – A Director at Work depicts the controversial Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl at work for the first time, painting a vivid picture of the much-debated “Seidl method”: The camera...

Listed as one of the Top 20 contemporary artists, the Austrian Erwin Wurm criticizes the encrusted affluent society with seemingly simple sculptures that meet the current zeitgeist. The film explores the artist, his…

Handmade utopias - a filmic search for the worldwide phenomenon of the micronation movement. Do-it-yourself states that have distanced themselves from the economic and political mainstreaming of globalization. A road…

Michl's Restaurant helps the long-term unemployed reenter the workforce. In addition to everyday life in the kitchen, there are also accompanying conversations at the center of the project as well as the film. The…

It is one thing to survive the Holocaust, but quite another to deal with the lasting impact of this experience. This filmic portrait of Ruth Klüger, an American literary scholar from Vienna, deals with these issues by…

Nothings demonstrates the fragility of human life more clearly than the sight of a newborn child. And so the film Into the World begins, though slowly and quietly, with an alarming image: that of a gasping infant in an…

"Time to Go" addresses one of society's greatest taboos: dying and death. The documentary was shot in Vienna at the hospice CS Hospiz Rennweg over the period of three months. The hospice functions especially to…