In March 1994, one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of Austrian avant-garde film to date was launched at the Art Institute of Chicago in the USA: eight programs, curated by the director of the San Francisco Cinematheque Steve Anker, which toured the world following the Chicago show and were shown in a total of 23 cities (including Stadtkin…
Choreography in film is as old as film itself. It therefore goes without saying that the media of film and video are used and sought as interdisciplinary forms of expression for the art of dance. Conversely, filmmakers use motifs from dance or choreographed movement as central building blocks in their works. Of course, this program only offers an …
Performance art is currently booming as a form of artistic expression. The art genre not only combines all disciplines from theater, dance, actionism, painting to pop culture, it also enables the merging of subjective experiences and socio-political issues. Despite numerous differences between contemporary and historical performances, which certai…
VISIONary sees itself as a mediator of innovative positions in contemporary Austrian audiovisual art, specifically short films, experimental films, documentaries and music videos, which are rarely shown outside the Viennese art house cinemas and festivals in the federal states.
At the beginning of the 1950s, a new development in cinematography be…
Mathematical concepts in experimental film and video. The title of the film/video show is a paraphrase of an influential manifesto by the Hungarian Bauhaus master and constructivist Lászlò Moholy-Nagy, which was first published posthumously in 1947: "Vision in Motion". The "strict" spirit of mathematics is ostentatiously put in the p…
The dozen is full! It has now been 12 years since sixpackfilm was founded. From our point of view, this is an ideal occasion to indulge in the art of the moving image with twelve exciting film programs. At the same time, this event at the Austrian Film Museum is intended to remind us of our goals and bring the motives behind our work closer to a n…
In one of the most startling and exciting developments in current film theory, late justice has now been done to early cinema: It has been recognized as a form of cinematography that is not merely a primitive precursor to the "real" film, the feature film, but rather forms a phase within which the creative possibilities of film were used in the mo…
The shaken machine. In cinema, the image counts as much as its erasure. The attacked, the assaulted image, always a specialty of avant-garde film, remains what it has always been, even in the moment of its decomposition and decoding: an image, a point of attraction. "the big screen", a short film program compiled at Sixpack, tells of the violence …
The tour began on March 11, 1994, in Chicago, at the famous "Art Institute," launching by far the most extensive and successful retrospective of Austrian film in the United States to date. "These seven programs offer America a deep insight into one of the world's greatest avant-garde film traditions." Steve Anker, director of the San Francisco Cin…
How it all began, where it will lead
The idea for BRAIN AGAIN came to us in May of last year. The occasion was the most beautiful poster that adorned the Croisette on the occasion of the Cannes Film Festival at that time. It showed a man's forehead with frizzy hair standing on end like call signs. Across the forehead was a freshly stitched cut that…