Misfire shows strong influences from Post-Neorealism. Yet we must also acknowledge that this feature film has a strong personality of its own, which reveals just how great the desire was to ‘break free’ from the conventions of Austrian cinema. Restored by Filmarchiv Austria and available on the Filmarchiv On channel.
In As of tomorrow, sometimes clumsy direction and often predictable script twists make us feel nostalgic not only for Mario Monicelli’s famous Big Deal on Madonna Street, but also for the comedies directed by Franz Antel himself in Austria in the 1940s and 1950s.
Schatten und Licht stands as a true gem within Austrian cinema, perfectly placed within a context in which numerous young filmmakers had set themselves the goal of making a completely innovative cinema, finally free of the dictates that had characterised Austrian films in the previous decades.
If VALIE EXPORT (born Waltraud Lehner) with her photographs, installations and video installations has become world-famous since the 1970s, it was not long before she made her debut in the world of seventh art. Invisible Adversaries, made in 1976, is therefore his first feature film, in which numerous influences from other art forms are evident.