Despite the straightforwardness of the mise-en-scene, when watching James Ellroy: Demon Dog of American Crime Fiction one almost has the impression of being on a rollercoaster. Los Angeles is thousands of miles away, but, after watching this fascinating documentary by Reinhard Jud, we all almost feel as if we have known it forever. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
Semra Ertan is what we do not expect, an intentionally fragmentary work, whose fragments, just like many pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, compose a living, breathing portrait of a person who is now forgotten by most, but who did so much to make the world we live a better place. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
Carmen is a bizarre yet tender and sincere love story that few would actually understand. Cinema and meta-cinema meet in this short and precious documentary by Anja Salomonowitz, and together they create a beautiful as well as melancholic contemporary tale. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
A cynical and disillusioned perspective focuses mainly on the numerous paradoxes that come to life when different realities are shown to us one after the other. We laugh a lot, we laugh almost from beginning to end, while watching War in Vienna. Yet, on closer inspection, what we are shown is quite disturbing. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
Doppelgänger is a heartfelt farewell letter to a person who is no longer with us. An extremely intimate and personal documentary that relies entirely on a simple and direct, but also well thought-out directorial approach. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
In Knittelfeld – A Town without a History we find a good mix of reality and fiction, emblematic of the many crimes that are committed every day in realities where order and peace seem to reign. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
I just can’t go on makes extreme realism its greatest strength, while at the same time also standing out for its marked lyricism. In Austria, a new film movement, which aims first and foremost to show us reality as it is, without any filter, has officially begun. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
In Somewhere Else we see different approaches to life, to present and future. What Barbara Albert primarily wanted to communicate to us is an albeit weak and uncertain message of hope, as well as a strong, very strong desire to start again. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
During the Many Years is a picture taken during a particularly crucial period in Georgia’s history. It is an honest and sincere documentary that aims to give us a closer look at a reality we have often heard about, but of which few know the true essence. And in its extreme simplicity, it knows how to be more alive and pulsating than ever. At the Viennale 2022, section Österreich real.
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.