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Two bed frames pushed together are traced from bottom to top by the camera and pass over to Scheirl in a suit, panning over her. This is followed by repeated vertical pans up high-rise buildings. In between is Pürrer with a fixed gaze and extravagant jewelry. The music is by the anarcho-punk band Crass.
Two crown princes, two world empires – and two completely different dramas, fatefully connected to each other: Rudolf of Austria and Wilhelm of Prussia. Both princes suffer greatly from the role assigned to them of maintaining a world that is collapsing. And both endure childhood traumas in their relationships with their parents, which they will struggle with for the rest of their lives. Yet their goals and worldviews could not be more different – the liberal Rudolf has a vision of a united Europe, while the conservative Wilhelm primarily wants to strengthen his own empire and rule authoritatively. A docudrama about two heirs to European imperial houses of the same age, but who follow completely different paths – for one, it culminates in personal triumph, for the other in tragedy.
…where do we travel when we dream – to hidden spaces, landscapes, countries, worlds? …what guides, confuses or frightens us when we dream? Do we move forward, do we get lost, do we get closer or even find… ourselves when we dream? One after the other we are dragged into different dreamscapes.
On 22 December 1808, four works by Ludwig van Beethoven were premiered at a major concert in Vienna: Symphony No. 5, Symphony No. 6, known as the ‘Pastoral’, Concerto for piano and orchestra No. 4 and the Fantasy for piano, choir and orchestra. Philippe Jordan and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra recreated this historic musical moment on 11 January 2020 in the Vienna Konzerthaus.
Julia, a respectable, married housewife and mother of a 13-year-old son, gets into financial trouble and has to make a dangerous decision to save her family.
A visual nightmare inspired by the physical symptoms of anxiety and sleep disorders — dreams, dreamlike states, nightmares and fake worlds all merged into one.
Aboard an airplane, a man remembers the stations of his equally sweet and painful love for a young woman. Will she be waiting for him on arrival?
Glass arrangements on overhead projectors shine. This work is a sea of moods. And although the sources of this emotional scenery are visible in their fragility, we can hardly escape their strength. What happens when all the suns set at the same time?
In this wondrously captivating experiment, Albert Sackl creates a quasi-stereoscopic effect by moving a Bolex camera on a rail from left to right, continuously capturing two frames on each side. The way in which these come together in a small perspectival point makes gestures seem to quiver, bodies tremble, and buildings shake. Silently, not only the two different angles but also the individuals in the frame find their way towards each other.
A poetry film with John Giorno directed by Antonello Faretta.
Around 1520, Schwaz and the silver region became the Silver Empire, the Silicon Valley of Europe. Not only the mining of silver and copper, but also the associated “industry” characterize the villages and hamlets of the region. With the arrival of the Fuggers, the Tyrolean trades disappear. Power, powerlessness, wealth and poverty - new times dawn in the “silver empire”. In 1521, the Fuggers take over the exploitation of silver mining in Schwaz/Tyrol. This marks the beginning of a new European era. Schwaz silver is used to buy empires, finance wars and set progress in motion. But it is not only the “silver town” of Schwaz, but also the entire region around Schwaz along the Lower Inn Valley, as well as other regions of Europe, that provide innovations with silver and also the lesser-known copper mining.
Das Buffet is a willful pollution of film tropes and histories. For these sex-hungry lesbian cannibals, death is just the beginning. Filmed in Vienna, 2012.
The story takes place in the past, the present and the future. A medieval witch returns as a ghost.
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Pale Alpine scenery, trembling focus, plus a silence drowned out by rumbling and static. Distance and fragmentation determine the vibrational space of Resonance. Telephoto views of cloud-covered glaciers. Blurred edges of forest, a view of a dim valley. Or, in the opposite direction, television towers appear in the shimmering light of high Alpine horizons: in particular, the Felsenegg broadcasting tower, built in 1963 on the Albis mountain range southwest of Zurich.
The members of a film jury find themselves locked in a cinema after they can’t decide which film to award the prize to.
In a world dominated by the rush of everyday life and the pursuit of profit, an office employee decides to create a space devoid of consumerist shackles.
An animated documentary about the transformation of an old working-class ghetto in Los Angeles into a desired neighborhood of the creative class.
Elizabeth T. Spira filmed with cameraman Peter Kasperak at Vienna's West and South Railway Stations in 1997. Her interviewees were travelers, commuters, railroad enthusiasts, lovers, young runaways, ex-prisoners, smugglers and homeless people.
"J" playfully explores the boundaries between pleasure and displeasure through various objects, based on their feeling, temperature and appearance.
Some birthday presents turn out to be your last ones.
“An excellent one reel musical anecdote, written, composed and directed by Max Brand, marked by the good humour of the disturbers of the peace and the disturbed and the bemused officiousness of the police who have to stop the fun. Film societies should find it very useful in making up a programme.” - Monthly Film Bulletin, January 1935.
Two Filipino women in Germany, their two daughters, the recording of their stories. The document of a word, its collection and circulation between families and languages.
Hegel in Therapy is an experimental computer animated short film.
A movie about the movie: light-shadow battle, scratchy, flawed or subtle transitions. In a storm of footage, the very existence of film is action.
For several years, the qualified biologist traveled around Innsbruck with his camera, looking for motifs and stories that describe the inevitable encounter between humans and wild animals in the Alpine region.
Abstract short set to electronic music.
Andi presents his new navigation app in sign language with his low-budget team in front of the camera. Conflict arises between Andi and the production manager right from the first shots. It remains uncertain whether Andi can endure his problems until the end.
Documentary short about the construction of a subway tunnel in Vienna, using the cut-and-cover method.
Time seems to stand still in southern Burgenland. Not only for the gentle tourism, but also for those men that Katrin Schlösser visits in her impressive documentary. The “buben” or “boys” of various ages referred to in the title tell of their work, everyday life, their families, and mainly about the changes that demands of them, a new image of masculinity. Of a transformation that they have to deal with.
A few years later: the reunion. Marlene and Maria are nervous; a shot of schnapps is quickly placed on the table. They exchange news, and hints suggest a love story that didn’t end well. Simon Spitzer, however, leaves such interpretations to the viewers’ imagination. Thus, the women experience a frenzied afternoon that not only speaks to a shared past but also reveals a present that diverges sharply from it.
Veronika Merklein takes a seat in a waiting room and tells “jokes” that all begin the same way, “A fat person goes to the doctor.” Canned laughter pours out over painful, transgressive statements. A clever, poignant performance that generates an oppressive feeling.
The ritually invoked spirits turn out to be deadly mosquitoes. Whirring points of light become dancing mosquitoes in tropical vegetation growing rampantly, no longer in Latin America, but – as animated and anti-colonialist intervention—in the Viennese urban landscape.
Inspired by Dürer’s The Great Piece of Turf, Claudia Larcher explores a tree from the crown through to the roots. The gaze glides slowly over leaves and bark, explores insects and fungi, until the earth reveals itself as a fantastical, animated world. A plea for the marvelous.
The guest is punctual. On arrival, he is offered a glass of water and a few words are exchanged before the sex begins.
Portraying the personal experience of a fatal loss, the film seeks to verbalise the unspeakable. A journey through phantasmagoric realms, oscillating between shadow and light, past and present, sorrow and solace.
Thousands of centenarian olive trees were burned during the 2022 summer wildfires in Greece. As these trees have lived through centuries, their carcasses formed ghostly figures; the locals referred to them as mythological creatures.
In this film, language is used as a sculptural tool to create space and subsequently dissolve it. The cinematic image space becomes an ice sculpture. Its physical appearance is connected to an absorbing soundscape. The term entropy describes the thermodynamic state of an object or body, which is shrinking continuously during the film. The virtual space expands and the arctic volume dwindles.
A film consisting of the titles of films that were shown in Viennese cinemas at the time of its creation.
The eye operates with such amazing precision that individual film frames can be read. Nevertheless, when the content in their sequence becomes too different, the perception of the actually projected content is stretched to its limits. Shown in individual frames, the alphabet is something we can only assume while placing trust in its reproduction. The 25 frames per second are rendered a visual challenge. Additionally, as the spoken alphabet is condensed into one second, it loses its contours. The story, however, still remains complete; it is interpreted, which makes for the beauty of this film: Not everything needs to be perceived or shown, we fill in the missing parts through interpretation in our heads.