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.
Watching Merry-Go-Round, based on Arthur Schnitzler’s famous play La Ronde, more than fifty years after its release, we realise its true importance. And its fierce criticism of society still seems so relevant today.
With a highly abstract and minimalist staging and a strong dreamlike component, Bady Minck and Angela Summereder made, with Blut in der Spur, a courageous and innovative work at a time when certain themes could still be considered ‘problematic’. At the Viennale 2025, monography Angela Summereder.
The Birth of Venus is a little gem that deserves special attention. A short film that tells the story of the world we live in and also gives us powerful, magnetic images.
A Movie ABC takes a close look at the relationship between cinema (or, more generally, image) and writing, which, since the origins of cinema, have almost always gone hand in hand and ensured that the narrative can develop on several levels.
Julia brings together irony, a couple of weak dramatic scenes and a lot of banality, perhaps the result of a certain superficiality, rather than a genre that, however light it may be, has been able to produce films that are altogether enjoyable. At the K3 Film Festival 2024.
The immortal music of Franz Schubert accompanies us throughout the entire screening. Music, but also painting make up a work, Schubert – A Stranger I came…, which unfolds simultaneously on several levels, taking us by the hand on a long journey between past and present that reaches the present day.
Fights, suspicious policemen, a mysterious robbery and an encounter that can only cause unnecessary trouble: Der Einstand, Christoph Waltz’s debut feature, is a beautiful film about how youthful mistakes can also have consequences in the present and about the difficulty in being accepted by society, which is unable to completely detach itself from the stigma of imprisonment.
The endless Sandwich does not simply want to reflect on the act of watching. Likewise, what Peter Weibel wanted to show us is how images (and, in a more general sense, cinema) are closely related to the spectator himself and the effect they have on him.
In The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penality Kick, based on Peter Handke’s short story of the same name, Wim Wenders’ cinema is there. And, despite the director’s lack of experience behind the camera, the film presaged what would one day become the renowned director from Düsseldorf.