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- Footage from The Entity (1982) is edited into an abstract nightmare.
- Bits of found film and different types of animation illustrate a classic chase scene scenario: A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy's secret headquarters.
- A man with a ape mask is searching for a boy with a hessian hood in a maze of depravity, a pandemonium of our nightmares and darkest desires.
- Beatrix is home alone. Most of the time. In a house that she does not own. A house in which she lives only temporarily.
- ILLUSIONS and MIRRORS is about the futile attempt of chasing a shadow that wanders through the dunes of an empty beach. When it finally comes to an encounter in a deserted house, the young woman experienced a disturbing surprise.
- 18 years after Kurt Kren produced his third film, he shot his masterpiece 37/78: Tree Again (1978). 18 years after I created my third darkroom film, I embarked on Train Again. This film is an homage to Kurt Kren that simultaneously taps into a classic motif in film history. My darkroom ride took a few years, but we finally arrived: All aboard.
- ELFRIEDE JELINEK: "Language Unleashed" Child prodigy, scandal writer, traitor of the fatherland, theatre fury, feminist, model lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, defiler of the nest, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel Prize winner.
- The stars in the night's sky. Pinpricks of light against the darkness excerpted from films beginning at cinema's dawn and continuing to this present day in a project that is planned to be expanded yearly.
- A woman goes to bed, falls asleep, and begins to dream. This dream takes her to a landscape of light and shadow, evoked in a form only possible through classic cinematography.
- It centers on three Jordanian women who barely survived the violence inflicted on them by men, listening to them speak with the opaque logic of trauma.
- Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages: private with public spaces; black & white with colour, still photographs with video, earsplitting sounds with disruptive camera angles. Anna uses her body like a map; after a devastating quarrel with her lover, she paints red stitches on herself. Watching their scenes together, we realize how seldom, if ever before, the details of sexual intimacy have been shown in film from the point of view from a woman. Export privileges rupture over unity and never settles for one-dimensional solutions (Artforum, Nov. 1980)
- An avant-garde sonic and visual reediting of a short clip from the classic 1962 film "To Kill a Mockingbird."
- For over a decade, toxic waste has been dumped illegally on the coastline of Somalia. The earthquake and tsunami in 2004 damaged the toxic containers and spilled waste, which caused the spread of diseases. Many people left their villages but some stayed and lived with the consequences.
- In breathtaking words, Germán López Rosales from Mexico describes his experience of a human smuggling operation from Laredo, TX to San Antonio. Next to Germán locked up inside the cargo area of a tractor-trailer, 8 of the 39 migrants died.
- Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- A man rescues a boy and later tries to get him off his back but to little avail, so they end up drifting around a subterranean world, populated by grotesque masked figures. A hundred years after Chaplin filmed his first feature film, The Kid, Norbert Pfaffenbichler offers an experimental punk-style interpretation, which the filmmaker himself has defined as a dystopian slapstick film.
- A sunbathing woman has a phantasmagoric vision of ecstasy, derived from various found footage sources.
- Arnold's original material is a piece of found footage from the 1950s; 18 seconds long and very typical for the period. A quiet take: a living room, a woman in an armchair. Her husband opens the door, kisses her, then moves out of the picture accompanied by a disturbing pan, his wife follows him. In Arnold's film the sequence takes 16 minutes. Cadre by cadre, it becomes an exiting tango of movements. But "Pièce Touchée" is more than just a matter of forms. The reflections, distortions, and delays it displays challenge Hollywood's stable system of space and time.
- Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland perform a hellish courtship in a nightmare of the American dream, created by manipulating old film.
- An attempt to transform a Roman Western into a Greek tragedy.
- After the sixth great mass extinction, humankind has disappeared from the Earth. But new life awakes and tries to understand - and then it discovers the film history of humanity.
- Unknowingly, a copy shop employee sets off a bizarre series of events with utterly unforeseen consequences.
- How can cinema engage with complicity in crimes against humanity? DE FACTO finds answers to this question in a meticulously directed play of two actors, a precisely compiled film script and a deliberately reduced setting.
- The film FORST bridges reality, activism and fantasy. FORST is a documentary with fictitious elements about a mysterious group of outcasts in the forest. This 50-minute film was awarded the "best short documentary prize" at the Graz Diagonale film festival. FORST is a portrait of a forest in the middle of Europe that harbors a community of banished people, set beyond urban life and civilization - a stranded world. In FORST, the outcasts proclaim their own truth and tell the story of their empowerment. For slowly they become aware of their identities as political refugees and they begin drawing liberation plans. FORST is unsettling and leaves thousands of questions unanswered. It documents a struggle at the front line of hardened opinions, the struggle of who defines reality. The filmmakers' view confronts the audience's view by being provocative, insolent and belligerent. (Amon Brandt)
- Mirrored frames being split by white margin and trying to reassemble again like the poles of a magnet, a train approaching station and colliding with itself in white-hot blistering chaos.
- In marketing and the retail sector, data analytics is widely used to profile and micro-target consumers and to predict behaviour. The ultimate goal, apparently, is for humans to be able to outsource all decision-making to machine intelligence. What is at stake within the political realm?
- A young man interviews people on the street. He asks them what is important to them, in order to discover something important about himself, but he can't find anything. A young woman, after several failed attempts, finally succeeds in finding some kind of happiness in her life, something that might be called love.
- A look at avant-garde filmmaker Marie Menken.
- Elektro Moskva is an essayistic documentary about the Soviet electronic age and its legacy. The story begins with the inventor of the world's first electronic instrument, Leon Theremin, unveiling the KGB's huge pile of fascinating devices, some of which were musical. They all came into existence as a by-product of a rampant defense industry. Nowadays, those aged and abandoned 'musical coffins', as solidly made as a Kalashnikov, are being recycled and reinterpreted by the post-Soviet generations of musicians, sound collectors and circuit benders. The story of the Soviet synthesizers as an allegory to the everyday life under the Soviet system: nothing works, but you have to make the best out of it. An electronic fairy tale about the inventive spirit of the free mind inside the iron curtain- and beyond.
- A landscape in which everything moves is afflicted with a figure which is in itself static, but which moves - a kind of mechanic man? In Mécanomagie both the borders of perception and (natural) laws are infringed so that something new may emerge: nature as a boundless state of ecstasy! (Peter Illetschko)
- 1965 action of Vienna Actionist artist Günter Brus shot and edited by Kurt Kren. Structuralist film theory emphasizes how films convey meaning through the use of codes and conventions not dissimilar to the way languages are used to construct meaning in communication. However, structuralist film theory differs from linguistic theory in that its codifications include a more apparent temporal aspect. In other words, the site of the study (the film) is moving in time and must be analyzed in a framework which can consider its temporality. To that end, structuralist film theory is dependent on a new kind of sign, first proposed by the Prague linguistic circle, dubbed the ostensive sign.
- A man faces his approaching death. He takes a journey, his last perhaps, and ends up at the Pensão Globo in Lisbon, where he sets out on an aimless excursion through the city. The film depicts a life in a state of transition. "Sometimes it's like I'm already gone, become a ghost of myself."
- Science-docu-fiction, or a documentary popular science film - that's what the creators described it. The action begins on a spaceship controlled by womens - cartographers from a civilization unknown to us. They are designed to study the planets encountered in space. At some point they reach our Solar System and their sight falls on Earth. Researchers are delving into the nine hundred million years of our planet's development history. Through the eyes of cosmic cartographers, MappaMundi takes its viewer on a greatly accelerated voyage through 950 million years of development on Earth, 150.000 years of human migration and 15.000 years of human cartography. The film visualises the continuous changes taking place in our world, change that is imperceptible over a single human lifetime. MappaMundi is a film about the image of the world that we have repeatedly re-drawn for thousands of years. With over hundred world maps from the past 15.000 years, the development of our view of the world from its beginnings to the present day is analysed and illustrated in all its diversity. MappaMundi shows the world we inhabit as the result of a process of continuous, radical change, a process of incessant transformation - that is both unstoppable and fascinating.
- The body and specifically the "woman's body" is often used as a focus for questions of origin, subject-object relations, political resistance and sexuality. Valie Export's notion of "body language" poses an ironic relation to these questions that acknowledges "the end of the body" or at least the final break with the way in which we understand it to be a biological, existential, or metaphysical entity. Export has broken away from any notion of unity - either body, space, or time - into the fragmented world of doubling and difference that is caught in representation.
- The small movements of a girl reading (in Hungarian from the book Merciless Love by Solonov) are watched precisely, noted and repeated. In intervals, growing by 15 seconds each the whole event was filmed four times, starting from the beginning each time. The original takes were repeated in four variations, in order to be able to compare the analogous sequences of movement in various ways. (...) The film compares the quality of movements in the identical phases in 4 variations. It was partly made using the analogous film technique and I added audio material (an extract from a short story by Sergei Sergejev Censki) to the series of images, which was increasingly distorted due to being played through space multiple times.
- The official trailer of the International Film Festival Viennale '99.
- The London Film-Makers' Cooperative calls this film the "Eating, Drinking, Pissing and Shiting film".
- Every year the Viennale invites a famous director to produce a short film as the festival trailer. In 2014 the choice has fallen on the 105-year old Manoel de Oliveira. This year's trailer of the Viennale, the 21st since 1995, was made by the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira. Oliveira is at the age of 105 years not only the probably oldest filmmaker who is still active, but also one of the big masters in the history of cinema. His first film DOURO, FAINA FLUVIAL originated in 1931 - his last up to now, the short O VELHO DO RESTELO was shot this summer. 83 years are between those two movies... The trailer of the Viennale derives from the invitation of the festival to the filmmaker. It has originated in the connection and during the work on his new 20-minute film O VELHO TH RESTELO which had his world premiere a few weeks ago at the film festival of Venice. In this film, a series of free associative fantasies about literature, history and the figure of the Don Quijote, a water-spouting fountain is to be seen for some moments, a setting which resolves in a cross-fade to sea waves, whilethe voice of the narrator is to be heard. For his trailer, Oliveira has chosen the same setting. It shows a baroque wall fountain in the Portuguese town of Porto, which is called "Chafariz das Virtudes" i.e. "The fountain of virtues". Porto is the very town in the north of Portugal in which Manoel de Oliveira was born and has been growing up and which is still today a central reference point of the artist. The fountain, which was dried-out for many years, was brought back to life again especially for this film. Unlike in O VELHO DO RESTELO the fountain in the Viennale Trailer stands completely for itself: For the duration of one minute and a single shot, accompanied only by the noise of the flowing water. "It is", Viennale director Hans Hurch says, "a pure picture of the passing time, the trickling away of life, of the present and the irretrievably lost at the same time. And it is maybe the most simple and mysterious of all Viennale trailers for me. While watching this strange cinematic haiku, I have to think over and over again about this long, rich life of that old man from Porto who has given us this film."
- The earlier films of Valie Export, one feels, were motivated by the author's desire and need to investigate her own subjectivity, with the audience as a necessary part of the transference and the polemic. Man & Woman & Animal shows a woman finding pleasure in herself, the whole film is a kind of assertion and affirmation of female sexuality and its independence from male values and pleasures... (Joana Kiernan)
- Mistral is the record of an off season journey in the south of France. Bare landscapes, burnt fields, empty villages, a still life with red wine in warm room. The grammar of Schreiner's film parallels human physiology - the camera is as fast as the human eye in its ability to capture the moment and thus constitutes consciousness through flash thoughts. (Georg Wasner)
- When a writer investigates Austria through the images presented by postcards, the landscapes around Erzberg and Salzburg become something between a dream and a nightmare.
- In the spring of 2018, the filmmaker Maria Petschnig befriended Marc who at that time was living in his car in Brooklyn for more than a year, while also holding a day job. He was parking in her neighborhood to frequent the shower at the gym and she kept running into him. Marc grew up in NYC, is a former convict, and his self-imposed homelessness had both psychological as well as economical reasons. Petschnig started to record his life and struggle, his thoughts, routines, etc. over the course of two years. The film as a collaborative project. "I want to see what can develop with your artistic abilities and my circumstances as much, if not more than you!"
- A subversive and experimental film from director Kurt Kren.
- Parallel Space: Inter-View is made with a photo camera. A miniature photo is exactly the size of two film frames. Optically it resembles a flickering double exposure; the former temporal and spatial unity disintegrates into pieces which have a correspondence with each other. (Peter Tscherkassky) Photographic processes - the material transformations involved in recording, developing, printing and projecting - functions as metaphors for psychological processes.
- As a crossmedia project, connecting film with the online video scene, WANNABE tells the story of a young YouTuber, who builds herself a fictitious world on the internet (www.youtube.com/cocochannel99).
- This is the festival trailer for Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2015. The trailer will be shown in over 100 cinemas in Austria and Germany and during the festival in several cinemas in Vienna.