BORN IN ABSURDISTAN
Houchang Allahyari’s comedy Born in Absurdistan is a feature film that, even more than twenty-five years after its release, is still incredibly relevant.
Category: 1999
OUTER SPACE
In Outer Space, Peter Tscherkassky has once again shown us how cinema itself can take on different connotations each time, how a film, through skilful editing, can become a completely new work, how easy it is to mould pre-existing images to one’s will. And so this work of his immediately reveals itself to be a highly controversial film, which almost desecrates the seventh art itself.
MOUNTAIN TRIP
Mountain Trip is a little, refined miriorama through which the director wanted to show us the essence of Austria according to numerous clichés spread all over the world. On the postcards, each time, we can recognise mountains, small houses, church steeples that stand out above everything, but also large green meadows and lakes. And so, many postcards make up one endless landscape.
CARMEN
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.
NORTHERN SKIRTS
With Northern Skirts, Barbara Albert told dramatic and extraordinarily joyful stories, probably thanks to her own 29-year-old youthfulness, and managed to establish herself on the international film scene.