In Helen A/B + Das Meer, through images captured by the camera directly from a computer monitor, we witness a profound and never banal reflection on how images are manipulated each time, on duality in cinema, and on how certain clichés have now become commonplace.
Vermischte Nachrichten could also be considered, in its entirety, as a film about film-making. And this in the purest sense of the term. Cinema of reality, cinema that doesn’t need any gimmicks to reach the audience with all its visual and communicative power. At the Viennale 2025, monography Angela Summereder.
Made and edited as if it were an ideal continuation of his legacy as an artist, Klimt stages a dramatic depiction of episodes from the painter’s life in a highly imaginative and artificial Vienna. At the Viennale 2023, retrospective Raúl Ruiz.
Reality and fiction constantly alternate in Florian Flicker’s No Name City. Visitors have an idyllic impression of the place, while the camera, at the same time, is ready to reveal its every secret. Within the retrospective Österreich real of the Filmarchiv Austria.
In Eine Million Kredit ist normal, sagt mein Großvater, Gabriele Mathes shows us how economy can change people’s lives forever. And so, through the story of a single family, a much broader discourse concerning the history of an entire nation is opened up. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
In Falling, Barbara Albert, in staging a strong nostalgia for the past, together with the desire to find oneself and one’s affections, skilfully avoids excessive emotionalism, showing a necessary detachment and a mature rationality in observing the five protagonists closely. Detachment and rationality that, in this case, manage to make us gradually get more and more connected with each individual character.
Drawing heavily on what has been made in the past, Andreas Prochaska, with Dead in 3 Days, has made one of his few feature films for the big screen, while showing clear evidence of his long career in television, in a very weak work, with an unsatisfactory script.
If we think that Anja Salomonowitz made It happened just before twelve years ago, we sadly realise how intelligently prophetic it was and how incredibly topical it still is today.