CINEMA, TI AMO. Filmmakers tell their stories

sixpackfilm was founded a "round" 24 years ago, initially just to be able to put on a film show. This goal soon expanded. What was missing was an organization that would implement innovative film in the current art scene in this country. Nor should the field be left to commercial structures. We wanted to work as an intermediary for the audience and public perception: as an agency for those moving images that the "market" is not clamoring for and for which it offers no support for the time being. Because these moving images demand a different way of seeing - not only aesthetically, but also in terms of economic, ethical and socio-political circumstances.

Celebrating 24 years seems to us an ideal occasion to ask those we work for: the filmmakers. Six filmmakers who already have a long history with sixpackfilm have been invited to create programs. They will present one or more films that have made a lasting impression on them. Which works, which filmmakers, which moments in cinema are decisive for them and have sparked their desire to make their own films? How can their own careers be illuminated by looking at individual works that have influenced and strengthened them? How do the filmmakers best express "their" cinema?

The selection of guest curators is broadly diversified: from the pioneer of feminist performance art VALIE EXPORT to the up-and-coming experimental film artist Siegfried A. Fruhauf and the young feature film director Florian Pochlatko. Documentary filmmaking is represented by Jörg Burger as well as the documentary and feature film couple Tizza Covi & Rainer Frimmel and is enriched by the unmistakable painter, performer and filmmaker Mara Mattuschka. The title of the series Cinema, ti amo stands for passion. As a statement, it is just as accurate for the filmmakers as it is for the sixpackfilm team. We cordially invite you to share this passion with us: in the cinema, while watching films together and talking about them. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)

Program (curated by 6 filmmakers)  

VALIE EXPORT
Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, D 1921-1924, 16mm, s/w, 3 Min.)
Rhythmus 23 (D 1923-1924, 16mm, s/w, 4 Min.)
Symphonie Diagonal (Viking Eggeling, D 1923-1924, 16mm, s/w, 7 Min., stumm)
Opus IV (Walter Ruttmann, D 1925, 16mm, F, 4 Min., stumm) 
Hand Catching Lead (Richard Serra, USA 1968, 16mm, s/w, 3 Min., stumm)
2/60 48 Köpfe aus dem Szondi-Test (Kurt Kren, AT 1960, 16mm, s/w, 4 Min., stumm)
Solidarity (Joyce Wieland, CA 1973, 16mm, F, 11 Min.)
Vertical Roll (Joan Jonas, USA 1972, video, s/w, 20 Min.)
Drum Dance (Laurie Anderson, USA 1986, video-loop, F, 3 Min.)  

SIEGFRIED A. FRUHAUF
Motion Picture. La sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière à Lyon (Peter Tscherkassky, AT 1984, 16mm, s/w, 3 Min., stumm) 
La Sortie (Siegfrid A. Fruhauf, AT 1998, 16mm, s/w, 6 Min.) 
Le Ballet Mécanique (Fernand Léger / Dudley Murphy, F 1924, 35mm, 16 Min.) 
3/60 Bäume im Herbst (Kurt Kren, AT1960, 16mm, s/w, 5 Min.)
Falls (Niklas Goldbach, USA 2006, video, F, 10 Min.) 
Trifter 1 (Rainer Gamsjäger, AT 2008, video, F, 8 Min.) 
Sugo (Hannes Langeder, AT 1998, 35mm, s/w, 3 Min.) 
Presto, Perfect Song (Manon de Boer, BE 2006, video, F, 6 Min.) 
Papillon d'amour (Nicolas Provost, BE 2003, video, s/w, 4 Min.) 
Attwenger's Luft (Bady Minck, AT 1994/95, video, F, 2 Min.) 

TIZZA COVI & RAINER FRIMMEL 
Freaks (Tod Browning, USA 1932, 35mm, s/w, 63 Min.) 

JOERG BURGER
Picture of Light (Peter Mettler, CA/CH 1994, 35mm, F, 83 Min.)

MARA MATTUSCHKA
Forbidden Zone (Richard Elfman 1980, video, s/w, 73 Min.) 

FLORIAN POCHLATKO
Pamela (Pippilotti Rist, CH 2005, 1 Min., soundtrack)
Trouble Every Day (Matija Ferlin, CR 2007, video, F, 3 Min.) 
Moving Stories (Nicolas Provost, BE 2011, video, F, 7 Min.) 
The Perfect Human (Jorgen Leth, DK 1968, 35mm, s/w, 13 Min.) 
Everything will be OK (Don Hertzfeld, 2006, video, 17 Min.) 
12 Boxkämpfer jagen Viktor über den großen Sylter Deich (Johann Lurf, AT 2009, 35mm, F, 3 Min.) 
You, the Living (Roy Andersson, S 2007, video, F, 8 Min., Ausschnitt) 
Hotel Chevalier (Wes Anderson, USA 2007, video, F, 13 Min.) 
Papillon d'amour (Nicolas Provost, BE 2003, video, s/w, 4 Min.) 
Cappy Leit (Marie Kreutzer, AT 2001, 16mm, F, 19 Min.) 

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