Stuck in a Groove is to all intents and purposes ‘the film we don’t expect’. A true visual and auditory experience that, thanks to a well-balanced structure and a strong, very strong desire to experiment and discover new cinematic languages, provides us with interesting food for thought on a subject that has fascinated us for many years.
In Another Lifetime is characterised by an essential staging devoid of virtuosity, within which the clear theatrical structure of the entire work turns out to be extremely precious.
The unintentional Kidnapping of Mrs. Elfriede Ott, directed by Andreas Prochaska, is a well-written comedy that makes puns and proxemics its strong point, resulting in a timeless humour.
Not only early cinema, but also advertising films and, of course, avant-garde cinema play the leading roles in Coming Attractions, as part of a series of “experiments” aimed at retracing all the most important stages in the history of the seventh art and paying homage to it in a reverent, but also funny and playful way. Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film at the 2010 Venice Film Festival.
In Michael Berger – A Hysteria we see how places are constantly placed in the foreground and, in their almost unreal and sometimes disturbing tranquillity, provide the perfect setting for the events narrated in the meantime by the voice over. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
There is no need in …a car… for special effects or directorial virtuosity. Carola Dertnig opted for a simple and essential approach, which proved to be the winning solution to create a strongly ironic and self-ironic short film.
Make/Real is one of the many possible forms of cinema that could not exist without film history. A hymn to the seventh art, but also to modernity and to all that the near future could offer us.
The Robber focuses mainly on the complex inner world of its protagonist, his constant need to run away, his difficulty in integrating into society and leading a normal life.
Although Aufschneider stands out immediately for its television-like writing and directorial approach, everything flows in an overall linear way. Every single event, every single story of the characters are somehow connected. Often, however, also in an excessively predictable manner.
Everything is grey in The Future will not be capitalist. Concrete – often left exposed – reigns everywhere. And the human being, for his part, how does he react? Lost in their frenetic activities, employees do not even seem to have time to exchange a few words from time to time.