Film speaks many languages. 12 years sixpackfilm

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 new audience.

Since the rebellious uprising of art against the leaden post-war period and since the wildly eventful 1960s, an extraordinarily radical and productive film scene has developed in this country. What was missing for a long time, however, was a functioning connection to the audience and the public. sixpackfilm set itself the task of closing this gap: as an agency for the non-commercially produced moving image.

To this day, the core of this mediation work has remained the participation in international film and video festivals. This part of our distribution work serves to present new works on an international level. In addition, sixpackfilm runs a distribution company that actively seeks out screening opportunities at home and abroad. 
With the conception and realization of events, we make a further contribution to communicating the moving images that we send out into the world. These events confront established classics with recent works, show creative parallels and differences, make aesthetic differences between film and video visible and present productions from all over the world.

This event also aims to make visible the fascinating subject matter we are talking about here. Film speaks many languages celebrates the historical and contemporary power of all forms of artistic film and video creation. Six international curator friends have been invited to bring together Austrian and international productions in their own programs and present them in person. In addition to these Cartes Blanches, we have composed further themed programs ourselves.

As a special event, there will be a musical-visual live act in collaboration with the Wien Modern festival. This will be dedicated to the latest development in the long history of the Austrian film avant-garde: digital moving image creation in combination with electronic soundtracks. Here, too, Austrian production is currently setting standards worldwide! (Brigitta Burger-Utzer, Peter Tscherkassky) 

Program overview 
Colour Cry! (Film- / Videoprogramm)
re:store (Live-Act)
VOTE! (on the occasion of national elections)
Happy Birthday to Me
"All that it is light" - Vom Glück im Kino
Film is GO
Histoire(s) d'Amérique
Sentimental Drink
Horizons
Fremde Heimat
Forms and New Forms of the Visual Study - Recent Austrian and French Experimental Developments
Tabu
Distilled With Love / Moving Image On the Rocks, Please