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In a world where people struggle daily for survival, caught between nature and mystical secrets, two young girls defy an ancient, brutal ritual of their village community to save the life of an innocent child. But where can they flee in a world that knows no mercy and where not only humans pose a threat? A long journey through the forest and scree, through doubt, fear, and hope, begins.
Short horror film directed by Wilhelm Müller.
A feature-length experimental documentary that captures traces of queer existence and intimate arrangements lived by non-privileged queers who navigate their experiences of migration in the city of Vienna. The film unfolds narratives of five queer migrants from contexts outside of the Global North which have been marked by gender violence, homophobia, economic instability, and social misbalance. Beyond narratives of damage, marginality is lived through and treated in the film as a space for emancipation and resistance – full of humor and joy, dignity and erotic, emancipation and struggle.
Lost silent short.
A view of the young, mentally broken Alex. Depression and anxiety are an integral part of his life, and death draws ever closer...
What do female shooters, holsters and love handles have in common? In the Spanish language, they can all be referred to as pistoleras. Natalia del Mar Kasik’s debut short is a feminist reimagining of the classic standoff – although eventually, the shooter's biggest opponent may just be herself.
Exploding with saturated light, colour, movement and synaesthetic sound, ’Prototipo is a perception shifting audiovisual work based on two live recordings by General Magic and Tina Frank in Vienna and London.
Short film.
Two teenage friends are roaming the neighborhood together and are having a conversation. The boy asks his friend about her headscarf, as a joke he rips it off her head and drives away. Afraid of the consequences of being seen, the girl runs after him. The unusual chase leads the two of them to new insights and a bit more openness.
The setting of the film was simple and straightforward: the now 77-year-old Friedl vom Gröller asks a (homosexual) escort to do a nude film session, has the man’s fine rib underpants pulled down by her younger accomplice, filmmaker Josephine Ahnelt – who, like a puppeteer, remains hidden behind a wooden wall – and exposes his member. (Dietmar Schwärzler)
"The word 'monodrom' is derived from the Greek and means one-way street. That is TV: a one-way communication system, a monodrom." - Peter Weibel
In a world inhabitated by wild creatures an intelligent little fella wants to set himself apart from the rest by shaping his surroundings according to his ideas. However, he hasn't quite learned that messing with an ecosystem may come with unexpected consequences.
“I am not the remains. I exist.” Three Jordanian women barely survived the violence inflicted on them by men. Çelik films them from as up close as possible in their flats, which they barely leave, listening to them speak with the opaque logic of trauma.
With unique staging by Joachim Schlomer, this 2006 Salzburg Festival production of the playful opera Mozart wrote when he was only 13 years old follows a group of men and women who weather the unpredictable ups and downs of love and romance. The cast includes Malin Hartelius, Jeremy Ovenden, Miljenko Turk, Josef Wagner and Marianne Hamre. Camerata Salzburg, conducted by Michael Hofstetter, provides musical accompaniment.
In her efforts to obtain accommodation and thus a residence permit in Austria, Marinela, an overburdened single Romanian mother, relies on her daughter Ilinca as a mediator and translator. The 8-year-old, however, has other plans.
A documentary about the protests against Covid measures in Austria in 2020 and 2021.
Marko Feingold used to say: “nothing can hurt those who already died once”. He himself had died several times over, as a survivor of four concentration camps: Auschwitz, Neuengamme, Dachau, and Buchenwald. From the moment of his liberation to the day he passed away last September, aged 106, he dedicated his life to helping tens of thousands of survivors on their arduous journeys to Palestine, and later channeled his efforts into Holocaust remembrance.
Eden´s Edge is an episodic film marked by exceptional directorial sobriety. The visual settings for the life-stories it presents are based on a shared and stringently maintained master-plan. We see bird eye-views of minimalistic scenes, meticulously arranged in gray desert sands. (Christian Höller)
This film describes a feeling of longing, longing for sun, longing for salt, and longing for the sea.
"Franziska is a hand-made blow-up - single Super 8 frames are fixed into windows cut in 16 mm black and white film. Space and time are involved with each other in a fascinating manner and in different frameworks and abrasive processes of movement."
"We Will Live Forever" is the search for traces of the destroyed Jewish culture of Wilna. While the gentile Viennese band "gojim" looks for the musical traces of this extinguished culture, we get a very personal view of the era through the eyes of three witnesses of this time. On behalf of the many who can no longer speak, they tell stories about childhood, youth and resistance in and around the ghetto of Wilna.
The year is 1945. The final battle for Vienna has begun. Hitler declares the capital of the "Ostmark", as Austria was called then, a stand-off of the Third Reich against the Red Army; a last attempt to turn the tables yet. A group of Austrian resistance fighters recognize the impossibility and enable the Russians to occupy the city - this action was known as the "Radetzky Operation" - and with it Vienna was saved from complete destruction by the Allies. The operation was headed by Carl Szokoll.
Five views of Viennese life: snow clearers, people in stone, the small shopkeeper, the telephonist, the radio announcer, the famel designer, the film maker, dance sessions and pork chops, masters of ceremony and DJ's. An episodic film about Vienna. Seven theses by Viennese philosopher Günther Anders on the increasing lack of feeling and awareness in the modern cycle of life, set against the contradictory nature and multiplicity of individual existence.
What does a lion think when he sees a person in a wheelchair in the desert? - "Meals on Wheels..."
An autobiographical documentary by two women travelling from Egypt to Germany, this film explores the experience of the female traveller as they focus on their own perspective of crossing places and spaces.
Documentary about Johannes Hogebrink's attempt to teach his dog how to hang glide.
Two young friends reveal their hidden desires by a theatrical presentation of Dionysus. The myth as well as the girl, initiating and redemptive becomes the catalyst of the hidden inner desires.’
Rewind is based on a piece of music: an electronic track entitled Rückenwind is provided as the source material, a composition by Shabotinski in which a deep frequency melodic fragment is swirled around by a delicate track of sounds. It clicks, pounds, whooshes, hums, and crackles around the quietly resounding basic theme of the piece. The abstract visual level emphasises the soundtrack, suggesting a digital score, and is vaguely reminiscent of music applications, the user-interface of composition software. At the same time the minimalist images suggest a continual forwards movement, gliding ahead on a parallel voyage through the virtual space: mobile geometry.
Lunatics in the subway Take a break at the diner Goggles seen from near Astrid is very seductive and reprimands the child Favorite family-shots sneaking in Make a move upside down Toilette and confusion in orange light Marching on the meadow and the simultaneous fall in the counter-post Astrid cannot hold back the laughter Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah (Scheirl)
After 21 years of continuous failure in UN climate change negotiations 195 nations, 20.000 worldwide negotiators meet at a private airport shielded by the military in the north of Paris for a last attempt to save our planet.
A Tyrolean farm boy helps his grandfather on the farm. He drives over the snow in the morning on his little bicycle tractor, collects bottles, boils eggs, feeds the cows in the barn, milks them. Every day the ritual of the previous day repeats itself. Until suddenly it doesn't work anymore.
In NavelFable Mara Mattuschka subjects herself to a second birth through endless pairs of tights. Her body struggles so hard and in such a deformed manner from out of the layers of nylon that the sheer struggle for survival becomes visible.
Structural 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. Depictions of a film strip (with sprocket holes, frame lines, splices, etc.) were reduced to horizontal and vertical lines with a resolution comparable to that of video. The image itself comprises two different temporal structures which are interlaced in the alternation between the half images.
A report about an Underground Festival on tour through Germany and Switzerland.
Les Contes d’Hoffmann opera intertwines reality and fantasy, exploring the relationship between art and real life in Mariame Clément’s staging, with Marc Minkowski bringing the score to life.
The documentary accompanies the controversial architectural transformation of Adolf Hitler’s birthplace into a police station in the form of a long-term observation. The result is a portrait of a small town on the Austrian-German border, which is exemplary to decades of history of dealing with the National Socialist legacy In Austria.
vs (or "virtual spiral") deals with the dynamics between time and body in film. On digital video and non-reliable 16mm-film the processual of time and (film) body is visually transformed by spiraling camera movements. Here, contrary movements, distance and proximity or depth and surface enter into a dialogue with each other. The spiral runs like a thread through the film vs. For creating the spiraling effect the artist Lydia Nsiah invented a camera tracking machine and shot in-studio, operating the movements of the camera live while recording.
The story of a young man who goes on a treacherous journey to save his tribe from extinction as a never-ending drought has changed the world forever! It has become a deadly desert, sucking the life out of everything. With his hope set on a mysterious little box, can he overcome to save his tribe?
24 hours in the life of a person who comes home from work, spends and has spent the night with friends. The day, and the work, begin with murmur and rumor.
Impresario Adler is imprisoned for insulting an official and therefore unable to negotiate an important concert tour with opera singer Lauri Volpi. In his place, he convinces Friedel, a pretty music student, to travel to Venice to meet the famous tenor. In her travels, Friedel sends postcards written by Adler to his wife to prevent her from knowing his real whereabouts. When Friedel meets Volpi’s attorney, she mistakes him for the singer, and they spend days together in a romantic, picturesque Italy without him revealing his true identity. After his release from prison, Adler realizes two things: firstly, Friedel has been negotiating with the wrong man, and secondly, his wife has discovered the trick with the postcards, traveled to Italy, and started a storm of her own. But when the storm has cleared and the confusions are clarified, nothing holds them back from a happy ending.
These crazy Mnozil boys write: "There ain't no better gift!!!! You see, it's a great gift coming in a small size and it is absolutely making sense! because it clearly reveals the spirit of the person giving it at the same time equally clearly indicating the good taste of the person receiving it. It truly is a charming and witty present with a soft-footed appearance like a young, adolescent deer. and it contains music you can even hear and see!" " In their show Magic Moments, Mnozil Brass, the seven masters of perceptive brass and song, will again move and enchant their audience. Throughout finely chiseled arrangements and charming original compositions the splendid tone colours and timbres of their priceless brass instruments are fully shown to advantage".
Five people who are in a show at a bar, who live in this hotel and have very different relationships with one another. After the show – they are already sleeping – they are woken by Pan for the night and therefore wake up to the destruction that is held within them.
Viktoria Schmid’s 16mm film installation I escaped from this into the cinema, ... (2018-2026) is based on James Clerk Maxwell’s method of additive colour mixing, which led to the first colour photograph in 1861. Footage of water features from different parts of the world, shot over a period of several years, merge into a new work using a trichromatic projection technique. At each location, three shots were taken on black-and-white film, each through a filter of a different colour (Red / Green / Blue). By projecting the images with three projectors through the corresponding filters, and by adding extra screens, they manifest themselves in varying degrees of overlap to form a final colour image. The projection ‘dispositive’ makes the relationship between colour and time tangible. Panta rhei — everything flows.
An elderly man returns to Vienna to fulfill a promise he and his wife made when they first got married 50 years ago.
Between the “red cuts” are dynamic images of Pürrer and Scheirl, some filmed from a screen, often against a red background or completely in red. You can see Pürrer lustful, rolling her eyes back, and throwing combative glances. On the hectic soundtrack you hear screams, sounds of fighting, things breaking.
To achieve her lifelong dream, an 80 year old actress takes on the male-dominated Indian film industry, and unwillingly becomes a leading advocate for women's rights.
Revolving Rounds is a cyclical film in both form and content. Shot at an agricultural field on the outskirts of Vienna, Johann Lurf and Christina Jauernik’s 3D short begins as it ends, tracking a planimetric path alongside three greenhouses as the early morning sun beams across the surrounding lands.
She casts a fleeting glance at him, only to quickly look away again. Likewise, he takes a look at her, only to swiftly avert his gaze. The surroundings are gloomy, strange, somewhat uncomfortable, and slightly too cold. In the background, an overly loud bar concert and noisy backgammon players can be heard. She dares to look at him once more. But does he meet her gaze? Probably not.
A dreamlike story of coming of age, depicting a transgender protagonist who takes his younger self, KID, on a journey through the woods in summer. Interwoven in different timelines, encounters with a horse and a motocross bike suggest the protagonist's literal and metaphorical coming-of-age as a gesture of friendship with the inner child.