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When Thora wakes up one day and is suddenly invisible, feelings of helplessness and desperation come thick and fast. But invisibility is also a superpower and in a flamboyant mask, Thora manages to seize her freedom. From an intimate distance, the camera is the only one that sees and makes visible both the lonely and liberating feeling of being air.
A day that takes place twice.
Johann Strauss Jr.: Waltzes and Polkas. "The Thunder and Lightning" Polka, with its flashing cymbals and booming bass drum, has always been a favorite in our household. "The Blue Danube" Waltz isn't bad either and "The Radetzky March" (by Johann Sr.) is hard to beat for clap-along fun. Suggested recording: Again, there are many recordings of these works available, but you can't be without the DVD of Carlos Kleiber conducting the Vienna Philharmonic on New Year's Day 1992 on Philips.
When you wait long enough, everything changes—a so-called timeless saying. A white waiting room, a chrome bench with black plastic seats, a closed door, two frames with glass that reveal nothing other than a reflection—habit alone lets us call them “picture” and “clock.” One hears traffic noise and voices from afar, a ticking, rattling, braking, probably the sounds of a city.
In the mountains of central Afghanistan, a group of Afghani teenage girls are challenging cultural stereotypes, by learning to ski and bringing it to a professional level through extensive training in Europe.
What is real and what isn’t in a replicated city? Ella Raidel made this penetrating ghost-town film in contemporary China, interweaving actors and ordinary people, sets and footage of the city. Aren’t the real estate agents, construction workers and investors simply playing a game? What remains of reality in a world dominated by the vagaries of capitalism? A Pile of Ghosts is a mysterious puzzle where the dividing line between fact and fiction becomes increasingly blurred. In this strange world, subjected to speculation, it actually doesn’t seem to matter anymore.
Lower Austria, Vienna. Time frame: from 1961 to the present. The family: 19 children born between 1961 and 1989. The father: a deeply religious man. His wife and children: possessions.
The film "Into the Emptiness" describes an example of the ritual game of "serfdom" in a "studio for bizarre eroticism". This game comprises a masochistic phantasy in which theguest assumes the role of an obedient slave and servant while the woman employed by the "studio" plays a domina who rules and punishes without mercy.
This film begins with black women dancing and black men expressing their praise: They are praising Austria. For over ten years, the 'alpine republic' has been cooperating with the ten parched Cape Verde Islands in the Atlantic Ocean near the west coast of Africa. In total, seven completely different projects are presented and evaluated critically. In passing, the viewer also learns something about the country and its people: Young people curse the beautiful archipelago, calling it a hole, a prison, hell... They are unable to find work. The individual character of the Austrian projects enable the cinematic discussion of some basic concepts of development politics. This film takes a look, both affectionate and critical, at a distant and exotic country which comes closer to us the longer The Meeting of the Islands lasts.
to forget is a filmic journey on the potentialities of forgetting and its resemblance to remembering. Recorded on expired Super-8 and 16mm film, forgetting becomes productive and ”’visible” in non-existing, fading and colour-transformed film exposures. This (non-)documentation of possibly empty and fading spaces (to be) is further highlighted by Jejuno’s trance-like and uncanny sound composition: The abyss is present.
In the seventh part of her adaptation of the “Dream Novel”, Katrina Daschner shines a circus arena’s spotlight on the relationship of a Schnitzleresque couple.
Friedl vom Gröller invites a stranger to his small apartment in Paris and records his reactions to an unexpected striptease.
A documentary comprising a thirteen 360° panning shots that gradually reveal the environments and conditions in which wood is transported from Austria to Brazil.
Experimental filmmaker Selma Doborac presents a radical and uncompromising essay on the impossibility of depicting the atrocities of war through insightful subtitles and meditative footage of abandoned structures that belong to the present as well as to the past.
"Ceija Stojka" is a portrait of 64-year-old Austrian Rom Ceija Stojka, who, after a nomadic childhood, settled in Vienna many years ago. In the recent past, Ceija Stojka’s fame as an author, painter and singer has spread outside Austria. She represents the opening of Rom and Sinti society to the world of the "gadje." This process and all the difficulties it involves is unique in the history of the Rom in Central Europe. The central theme of this documentary is the fusion of two extremely different worlds in this fascinating woman. Beginning with Ceija Stojka’s present life, her biography is reconstructed in this film portrait. At the same time, a critical chronology of images portrays the common associations with the "gypsy," examples of which pervade Ceija Stojka’s life. A comprehensive consideration of the gypsy’s image, from romanticized projections to images of exclusion, discrimination and destruction, and finally the present ambivalent relationship between Rom and non-Rom.
In 1986, Kurt Diemberger and his companion Julie Tullis came back to the K2, after two failed expeditions, in order to finally stand on the summit of the mountain of all mountains. Their dream comes true. They reach the summit of K2. However, on the way down, Julie and four other mountaineers die. They were caught by a horrible storm which forced them to stay at an altitude of 8.000m for several days, all because they had lost one important day during their ascent. Kurt Diemberger and Willi Bauer were the only ones who were able to survive this inferno on the second highest mountain on earth - merely with serious frostbites.
Drama about a sick child and an old actress.
A man visits a friend's house. They watch a film of an earlier time when they were hanging around, meeting girls.
The story of my Vietnamese father who was able to build up a new life in a small Austrian village, but there is still an open chapter in the past: the search for the man who once helped him and who he never could thank for that.
An irritable gargoyle spends 800 years stuck on the side of a cathedral with a decorative metal rain gutter as the world changes for better and for worse.
A musical narratrive about Yugoslavian immigrants haunted by the hymns of their homeland.
Documentary about farmers in the Austrian Alps.
Pictures of venereal diseases and their consequences, rickets, pictures of the healing of diseases. Pregnancy, abortions, pictures of the normal course in the womb up to birth. Infant care and infant homes, healthy growing up of children.
Football is the only joy in the life of middle-aged office worker Heimo. One day, soccer suddenly disappears and no one but Heimo knows what football is.
Rosa Friedrich was never that interested in porn, until her friend Timo expresses a wish to star in an erotic film. So she agrees to help him get his project off the ground. However, the closer it gets to the shooting date, the more Timo feels embarrassed and doubtful about being involved in the first place. His face is ultimately replaced with the help of AI, and Rosa, together with a dominatrix, three trans women, a food-porn creator, a sex coach and other protagonists, continues with the film.
While performing Richard Strauss’s *Four Last Songs* in Salzburg, soprano Asmik Grigorian reflects on her special connection to the Austrian festival.
Another day in the life of Siegfried.
An insight into the outdoor activities at the Viennese Gänsehäufl outdoor pool.
Police officer Martin encounters his ex-girlfriend Eva in a bar. Their initial small talk quickly turns serious, and the protagonist's search becomes clear: But he won't find an answer there or with his current girlfriend. In the glow of the neon lights, he drives angrily through the lonely winter night. After narrowly escaping an accident, he ends up in a brothel. But reality soon catches up with him again.
Set in the mythical world of Arcadia – an utopian continent inspired by old world mythologies – the story revolves around several main characters.
Short horror film directed by Wilhelm Müller.
The constructedness of the digital firmament becomes visible and points of contact between late capitalists, conspiracy theorist and romanticist world experience open up.
A filmic kaleidoscope of a group of scientists who live and work at the Special Astrophysical Observatory, located in an isolated village in the Caucasian Mountains. Faced with the magnitude of the Universe, the protagonists seek meaning through science, philosophy and art, in order to deal with the mundane realities of their daily, tangible lives and the terrestrial existence in general.
Short documentary examining the circumstances of a family in which history begins to resemble a drama.
Mona finds her ex-girlfriend's old jacket. Will she dispose of it as planned, or can surfacing memories make her reconsider? The rise and fall of a relationship as told through a piece of clothing.
A cinematic foray along the largest and most important river in southern Austria and the portrait of unique river landscapes and mountain regions at the intersection of three cultures.
The documentary records the story of two people situated in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp during the Nazi regime.
A mountain slope, an orchard, a house. Idyllic pictures in southern Serbia. Three generations under the roof of the house that is being prepared for its transmission.
The telephone wakes its uncounted brothers and sisters. The lady in the bathtub has two faces. Shall I help a beautiful man when forks and teeth fight in the skies?
A film about ignorance, intolerance and the lack of responsibility in people. A political film about human kindness, which in many of the so-called "incidents on the border" has been sadly missing.
"Masculinity" is the subject of this film. Harald, the protagonist, fails in his blind attempt to prove his masculinity at Maria's expense. The Stone Age is over. Is it really?
A telephone conversation between father and son.
What does it mean to live in the city without a place you can call your own? What role can architects have in addressing homelessness? And how can cities become better homes for all? The documentary film What It Takes to Make a Home follows a conversation between architects Michael Maltzan (Los Angeles) and Alexander Hagner (Vienna), who have been grappling with these questions over many years and through various projects. While the cities and the political and economic contexts in which Maltzan and Hagner work differ, both search for long-term strategies for housing instead of reacting with ad hoc solutions. Focussing on some causes and conditions of homelessness, the film questions the role architects can play toward overcoming the stigmatization of people experiencing it, in order to build more inclusive cities.
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, the sailors on the Odessa come to terms with their fate in the Bay of Naples.
Clare's father was a producer of dog oil, a medicine extracted from dead dogs, which is supposed to cure all ailments. Her mother had a studio where ladies in need had a certain operation made. As an old lady, Clare visits her father's factory which has been shut down long ago. There Clare thinks about her childhood.
Between Christmas and New Year, Wolfgang receives a visit from three angels in his small hotel room.
Dr. H. owns a multi-million-dollar property in the heart of Vienna. He inherited it from his aunt, who wasn’t really his aunt. Dr. H. is melancholy and wouldn’t mind putting an end to his life, if it weren’t for his brother B., who isn’t really his brother. Dr. H. tells how, with the help of a veterinarian, he brought B. out of a coma resulting from cardiac arrest, and how B. helped him get the building from his so-called aunt. Dr. H. has set up a charitable foundation that will begin operations after he dies. The filmmaker decides to intervene.
Documentary about a stay in Japan.