A room becomes more attractive when something happens in it. For Le Baromètre, Laurent, Herachian, Friedl vom Gröller invited three strange men to her small apartment in Paris and confronted them with an action.
Vrba, Sackl and Ayub test gender rituals at the tipping point to the cliché. while Vrba stages a piano performance in…
What better title for a One-Woman-Show by Sabine Marte in the cinema than the song of the same name by Laurie Andersen, the great American musician, performer and video artist? With her music, Sabine Marte serves a different stage as a member of the band pendler. performance and the possibilities of the medium of video are combined in her early vi…
Stefan Németh is certainly one of the busiest musicians in the Austrian experimental film and video scene. Among others, he has worked with Lotte Schreiber, Michaela Schwentner, Norbert Pfaffenbichler and Dariusz Kowalski. As part of the electro-acoustic trio Radian, he was influential in the field of experimental electronic music far beyon…
Migration is the project of the future, states Borjana Ventzislavova in her short film Migration Standards, in which she has children and young people perform in a spatial in-between zone. The work is characterized by a refreshingly modern approach to this topic.
Ascan Breuer accompanies his wife Ariana in Tehran - Lost & Found, whose family …
Humor and satire are the unifying aspects of this program, which combines films by established artists with surprising works by young talents.
Friedl vom Gröller lets a very large joint go through a round of people from three generations, while the two video artists behind BitteBitteJaJa plunder their collection of net footage to create a fa…
The main focus of this selection of young Austrian "narrative" films is the reflection of everyday activities and experiences. "Mirroring" because these are not documentary records but specific, aesthetic approaches that are sometimes shifted into surreal or abstract environments or allow detailed observations as semi-documentary milieu studies. W…
Colors of a long night (Judith Zdesar, AT 2011, 70 min.)
The flight into the darkness to Greenland begins with a farewell to the sun, which glows as a red ball in the cabin window. On arrival, the camera and microphone immediately have to fight against the icy wind. Only fragments of hooded figures are perceptible, no colors. In the black directl…
Sensory illusion on the visual level. Perception is an interplay of received stimuli and their transformation into a sensation. When watching a movie, we might expect to be exposed mainly to visual stimuli, but it is not only the image itself that determines our perception of a movie. In particular, viewing habits, associations with the familiar, …
In their ethnographic documentary The Shadow of the Prophet, Philipp Mayrhofer and Christian Kobald search for traces of the sheikh and Sufi order founder of the Murids Serigne-Touba (1853-1927), who always tried to hide his face.
In Dakar and the former colonial capital of Senegal, Saint Louis, they easily bring together the legends and myths su…
Economic systems are complex structures that are subject to their own laws. Neoliberal stock market transactions are no longer logically comprehensible and the bubble of speculative investing, promises of mega-profits by hedge funds and dotcom share price rises bursts in cyclical recurrence.
In Michael Berger - A Hysteria, Thomas Fürhapter p…