Carmen is a bizarre yet tender and sincere love story that few would actually understand. Cinema and meta-cinema meet in this short and precious documentary by Anja Salomonowitz, and together they create a beautiful as well as melancholic contemporary tale. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
A cynical and disillusioned perspective focuses mainly on the numerous paradoxes that come to life when different realities are shown to us one after the other. We laugh a lot, we laugh almost from beginning to end, while watching War in Vienna. Yet, on closer inspection, what we are shown is quite disturbing. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
Neue Fenster is a kind of “return to the origins”, when we still had to become familiar with this new, bizarre invention that was the cinematograph. Just as the light from the projector illuminates the screen, the light coming in through the new windows at vom Gröller’s house is about to offer us not one, but many new spectacles. At the Viennale 2022.