Manfred Deix Archive | Cinema Austriaco

SUDDENLY, A STRIKE

In Suddenly, a Strike the camera of Josef Aichholzer and Ruth Beckeremann is immediately close to the workers. Filmed in 16mm and totally in black and white, the documentary includes footage shot directly by the directors during workers’ meetings or while they are intent on entering the factory, as well as single frames of the factory owners and short animation inserts by the late Manfred Deix. At the Viennale 2022 within the retrospective Österreich real.

SNOTTY BOY

Snotty Boy is an extremely sharp and mature feature film, which sees its workhorse in a grotesque humour. The portrait of a world – that of cartoonist Manfred Deix, but also of those who lived through the post-war period in small towns – that never really died. At the Diagonale’22.