SOTTO LE STELLE DELL’AUSTRIA 2023
Sotto le Stelle dell’Austria 2023 kicks off. In Rome, at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura, from June 20 to July 5, 2023.
Tag: austrian cinema
CONTEMPORARY AUSTRIAN CINEMA – OUTCOME 2022
If we want to draw a quick outcome 2022 concerning Austrian cinema, we cannot fail to notice the presence of many very diverse feature films and short films, many of which, searching for their own new cinematic languages, stand out with a very personal directorial touch, as well as a strong, marked personality.
SOTTO LE STELLE DELL’AUSTRIA 2022
Sotto le Stelle dell’Austria 2022 kicks off. In Rome, at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura, from June 21 to July 6, 2022.
SOTTO LE STELLE DELL’AUSTRIA 2021
Sotto le Stelle dell’Austria 2021 kicks off. In Rome, at the Forum Austriaco di Cultura, from June 23 to July 7, 2021.
HOLOCAUST AND AUSTRIAN CINEMA – OPEN WOUNDS
Holocaust and Austrian cinema are, today, undoubtedly a much less common combo than Holocaust/German cinema, although this theme is undoubtedly a constant within the national film production.
CINEMA AND PROPAGANDA DURING WORLD WAR I
If in Austria, the first production companies were founded relatively late compared to the rest of the world, only a few years after the seventh art had also spread nationally, people had to deal with a highly dramatic and unexpected event: the outbreak of World War I.
TIME LEVELS AND FRAME STORIES – PEDAGOGY AND PROPAGANDA IN AUSTRIAN CINEMA OF THE 1920S
The feature films produced in Austria in the 1920s were generally based on literary works or, alternatively, dramas involving historical events from the past. Within them, successful time shifts transported the spectator, time after time, to new worlds and new realities.
SAVE THE DATE: DIAGONALE 2020 IN GRAZ
As essential meeting point for film enthusiasts from Austria and abroad, the Diagonale screens roughly 100 current Austrian feature, documentary, and short films in its competition and awards Austria’s most highly endowed film prizes. From March 24 to 29, 2020 in Graz.
FRAGMENTS FROM THE PAST – THE POWER OF IMAGES
The first film archives were created in the 1930s with the intention of preserving what had been made since the origins of cinema. Yet, it has not been possible to recover many of the works previously made, of which several fragments have been permanently lost. This is also the case with Wellen schlagen gegen die Küste, beobachtet von einer Frau, which was also able, in spite of everything, to allow the spectator to be carried away by the feature film itself while watching it.
AUSTRIAN HEIMATFILMS OF THE 1910s
When discussing about Austrian cinema, we often come across the concept of Heimatfilm. But what are actually these Heimatfilms? To better understand this, we have to go back in time to the origins of the aforementioned cinema.