Hors d'oeuvre

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1981 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: Simple black lines, steadily moving and changing, play with our habits of seeing. For the sound, zippers were used, giving the impression of scratching or breathing.

Credits:

Direction: Renate Kordon

Writers: Renate Kordon

Production: Renate Kordon

Animation: Renate Kordon

Music: Renate Kordon

Sound: Renate Kordon

Distribution: Renate Kordon

Age Classification: M/12

Parasympatica

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1986 Duration: 6 mins.

Synopsis: In a Spanish magazine, the artist found a list of characteristics considered as “positive or negative” by the Catholic Church. With two exceptions, the positive characteristics represented are passive attitudes. The artist represents them mimically by dividing her body into two halves, one black and the other white. This "split" figure rotates jerkily by means of single frame animation.

Credits:

Direction: Mara Mattuschka

Writers: Mara Mattuschka

Animation: Mara Mattuschka

Music: Mara Mattuschka

Sound: Mara Mattuschka

Distribution: Mara Mattuschka

Age Classification: M/12

Der Akt

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1987 Duration: 2 mins.

Synopsis: In abstract and constantly changing black and white images - directly scratched on 35 mm black film - the archaic protagonist experiences contradictory erotic scenes with the opposite sex. Shimmering and trembling images tell a drama about sex and jealousy that ultimately culminates in a murder.

Credits:

Direction: Monika Wibmer

Writers: Monika Wibmer

Production: University of Applied Arts in Vienna, Studio for experimental animation

Animation: Monika Wibmer

Music: Zoro Babel

Sound: Zoro Babel

Distribution: ASIFA Austria

Age Classification: M/12

TV Montezuma

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1988 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: A startling race through animation, a bizarre journey through the mysteries of drawing and video, including quotes of Jonas Mekas‘ film ‘He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life’.

Credits:

Direction: Peter Putz

Writers: Peter Putz

Production: Peter Putz

Animation: Peter Putz

Music: Penguin Cafe Orchestra

Sound: Peter Putz

Distribution: Peter Putz

Age Classification: M/12

Mao Tse Tung - Bd.2

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2001 Duration: 10 mins.

Synopsis: Drawn on the pages of the book ‘Mao Tse Tungs Selected Works Vol. II’ (1968). A response to something so clearly written, so easily understood, so linear, so horrifyingly consequential! Considering myself a political being of the left it is astounding to me how the human animal continuously manages to screw up in the biggest possible ways (often with the best intentions).

Credits:

Direction: Heimo Wallner

Writers: Heimo Wallner

Production: Heimo Wallner

Animation: Heimo Wallner

Music: Martin Zrost

Sound: Martin Zrost

Distribution: Heimo Wallner

Age Classification: M/12

I'm a star

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2002 Duration: 6 mins.

Synopsis: A lonely man, a cigarette, a hotel hallway, this is the setting for an ironic take on Sinatra lore. Fueled by the contents of his flask, Frankieboy staggers for all eternity through the corridors of a hotel whose name he has forgotten.

Credits:

Direction: Stefan Stratil

Writers: Stefan Stratil

Production: Stefan Stratil

Animation: Stefan Stratil

Music: Louie Austen, Mario Neugebauer

Sound: Mario Neugebauer

Distribution: Stefan Stratil

Age Classification: M/12

construction 76

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2008 Duration: 5 mins.

Synopsis: ‘construction 76’, by video artist Lia, was created in collaboration with the musicians collective @c. A five-minute soundtrack was taken from a 55-minute-long composition and synchronized with computer-programmed visuals.

Credits:

Direction: lia

Writers: LIA

Production: LIA

Animation: LIA

Music: @c

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Groteskes Gezwitscher

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2013 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: A black, out-of-tune grand piano stands there in a room full of metamorphoses. The transformations lead sonorously through the rapidly changing thoughts of a smoking dreamer. Meanwhile, images from outside penetrate inside.

Credits:

Direction: Mariella Schöffmann

Writers: Mariela Schöffmann

Production: Mariela Schöffmann

Animation: Mariela Schöffmann

Music: David M Schuh

Sound: David M Schuh

Distribution: Mariela Schöffmann

Age Classification: M/12

Review

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2013 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: This hypnotic, abstract film uses found audio-visual material. Non-sequential images were grouped by content and altered into circular patterns, erasing their meaning. The audio blends sound fragments with a voice repeating: "Once a thing's been done, it's been done ... why looking backwards for inspiration ... start something new, you know? Live your lives now. Know what I mean?"

Credits:

Direction: Holger Lang

Writers: Holger Lang

Production: Holger Lang

Animation: Holger Lang

Music: found files

Sound: Holger Lang

Distribution: Holger Lang

Age Classification: M/12

Video 64 CDE

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2014 Duration: 2 mins.

Synopsis: The sound accompanies the images, pointing to changes without translating them linearly, and developing a theme of its own. It shows a comparable degree of unpredictability and openness. By that, it aims to form the bridge to the viewer's subconscious mind.

Credits:

Direction: dextro.org

Writers: dextro.org

Production: dextro.org

Animation: dextro.org

Music: dextro.org

Sound: dextro.org

Distribution: dextro.org

Age Classification: M/12

Domino

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2014 Duration: 2 mins.

Synopsis: This film combines the mechanism of a domino fall with the stop-motion animation technique and introduces a new animation technique the “non-stop stop motion”.

Credits:

Direction: Anna Vasof

Writers: Anna Vasof

Production: Anna Vasof

Animation: Anna Vasof

Music: Anna Vasof

Sound: Anna Vasof

Distribution: Anna Vasof

Age Classification: M/12

Drift following the Seam

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2015 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: The film is based on the auditive spaces of Robert Schwarz’s composition “Drift Following The Seam”, the visual counterpart evolved in one year of experiments with path-tracing engines. Maik Perfahl shaped the stage with moving lights and bending the space with various deformers. By going back and forth from chaos to physical order, the animation is a dark experimental simulation of nature.

Credits:

Direction: Maik Perfahl

Writers: Maik Perfahl

Production: Maik Perfahl

Animation: Maik Perfahl

Music: Robert Schwarz

Distribution: Maik Perfahl

Age Classification: M/12

20160815

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2016 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: Is there life after HD? And most of all: will awareness begin to revolt at some time when HD is implanted in all of our minds as a standard without alternative? This is not the first time that she has collaborated with Pita (Peter Rehberg), whose track, ‘20150609’ congenially elevates Franks eruptive pop-approach to a higher, shared, techno-visionary level.

Credits:

Direction: Tina Frank

Writers: Tina Frank

Production: Tina Frank

Animation: Tina Frank

Music: Pita

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Trass

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2018 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: Trass takes a motif from “Camptown Races” (Stephen Foster, 1850) and expands on it in a contrapuntal texture of synthesizers with live drums. The video adds its own layers of complexity and depth of perspective, commenting humorously on the frenetic energy of the music.

Credits:

Direction: Anton Lakhontov

Writers: Anton Iakhontov

Production: Anton Iakhontov

Animation: Anton Iakhontov

Music: Michael J. Schumacher / diNMachine

Distribution: Anton Iakhontov

Age Classification: M/12

KillJoy

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2018 Duration: 5 mins.

Synopsis: ‘KillJoy’ is an animated passive-aggressive suburban tragic-comedy dealing with social norms of happiness. The scene is set around a family and their dinner table. It is the usual gathering, but something is off.

Credits:

Direction: Line Finderup Jensen

Writers: Line Finderup Jensen

Production: Line Finderup Jensen

Animation: Line Finderup Jensen

Music: Benjamin Grodin

Sound: Benjamin Grodin

Distribution: Line Finderup Jensen

Age Classification: M/12

TOVO

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2020 Duration: 6 mins.

Synopsis: ‘TOVO’ is an animated film that uses both analog and digital techniques experimentally. The film shows the formulation of visual thoughts and invites you to participate in this discursive thought process.

Credits:

Direction: Thomas Steiner

Writers: Thomas Steiner

Production: Thomas Steiner

Animation: Thomas Steiner

Music: Werner Puntigam

Distribution: Thomas Steiner

Age Classification: M/12

There is, indeed, the unspeakable

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2020 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: ‘There is, indeed, the Unspeakable’ signals inexplicable phenomenons and surprising associations ranging from mysterious hatcheries and torture chambers to the effect of consciousness-expanding substances.

Credits:

Direction: Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat

Writers: Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat

Production: Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat

Animation: Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat

Music: Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat

Sound: Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat

Distribution: Marzieh Emadi, Sina Saadat

Age Classification: M/12

blukralafiratin

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2021 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: Six still lifes by the artist Horst Janssen form the basis for this film. The music comes from the band “Hirsch Fisch”, that is formed by the artist himself and the musician Klaus Tschabitzer aka Johnny Schwimmer.

Credits:

Direction: Nobert Trummer

Writers: Nobert Trummer

Production: Nobert Trummer

Animation: Nobert Trummer

Music: Hirsch Fisch

Sound: der schwimmer

Distribution: Nobert Trummer

Age Classification: M/12