Gabriele Mathes

Austria

Gabriele Mathes

director, producer

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…
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…