Austria 2009, 2 min, language: without dialogue
director, screenplay, production, photography, editor: Michael Wirthig
The prize-winner of last year’s Hubert-Sielecki-Prize closely examines a Leica R-3 and breaks it up into its smallest parts, in order to arrange a dizzying puzzle in which screws debate and dance around cables.

Austria/USA 2008, 10 min, language: English
director, screenplay, production, photography, editor: Sasha Pirker
Visually an architectural portrait of the legendary Schindler House in Los Angeles, acoustically an immigrant’s personal account of life in and with this house, which in the meantime has become a museum.

Austria 2008, 2 min, language: without dialogue
director: Siegfried A. Fruhauf
Recapturing ground control: starting with the well known static noise on the screen, this video-miniature also looks at giant aunts and satellite dishes.

Austria 2008, 7 min, language: without dialogue
director: Annja Krautgasser
In the flickering light an awe-inspiring house facade waits to be explored through tracking and pan shots. The soundtrack hints at events, people however don’t appear until the very last shot – but then take on a major role.

Austria 2008, 5 min, language: without dialogue
director, screenplay, production, photography, editor, music: Karin Fisslthaler
Hands grip, stroke, scratch – they do all of that, also in this found-footage-film, but the object of their touch is missing. A fascinating look at the body, gestures and gender in films.

Austria 2008, 10 min, language: without dialogue
director, production, editor: Josef Dabernig | photography: Christian Giesser | cast: Maria Franz, Josef Dabernig, Annemarie Dabernig, Anni Dabernig, Karin Franz
Constructed like an opera, composed like a football match: at the Roccalba Hotel everything casually ambles along in black and white images. The protagonists keep to themselves and seem to be waiting for something. Or maybe not?

Austria 2009, 3 min, language: without dialogue
director, animation: Didi Bruckmayr | music: Fuckhead
Bruckmayr’s blisters are reminiscent of the financial system’s ones: first arranged in a fragile and predictable sequence, they suddenly explode and cause havoc that manifests itself in hyperactive patterns.

Austria 2008, 11 min, language: German, French
director, screenplay, editor: Ella Gallieni | production: Filmakademie Wien | cast: Birgit Scholin, Christian Zagler, Florian Krügel, Ulrike Putzer, Brigitte Auer
With its own unique atmosphere, this black and white film doesn’t show horses so much as explain the meaning of „hors champ“, off-camera at a film shoot. This can alternate between boredom, exuberance and even erotic attraction, always citing the aesthetic of the Nouvelle Vague.

Portugal/Austria 2008, 6 min, language: without dialogue
director, production: Lukas Marxt
The various takes of the shoot for one scene amount to – when they are all kept in the finished film – the effect of a loop that is also reflected in the soundtrack. A story unfolds.

Austria 2008, 5 min, language: without dialogue
director, screenplay, production, editor: Gerald Zahn, Anna Bertsch | photography: Gero Denning | music: Raffael Francis, Carmen Lázaro | cast: Harry Langreiter, Sabine Penz
A couple alternates between “tenderness and chastisement” in this atmospheric and aesthetic music video to the song by Raffael Francis and Carmen Lázaro, who deems passion overrated.

Austria 2008, 3 min, language: without dialogue
director, screenplay, editor: Nadine Taschler | production: Peter Miller | cast: Nadine Taschler, Caroline Taschler
Filmed on 16 mm, the interaction and eventual fusion of two people – who in this case even turn out to be twins – unsteadily ensues. Spooky.

Austria 2008, 5 min, language: without dialogue
director, photography: Judith Hasleder | production: Alina Trentinjak | editor: Paul Schön | sound design: Peter Rösner
From a bat’s eye view the camera explores a cave full of ice, narrow nooks and crannies and little streams. A roller-coaster-ride through contrastingly lit cavernous landscapes.

Austria 2008, 4 min, language: without dialogue
director, production, music: Denis Rauter
After the examination of a camera at the beginning of this programme, we finish up with a study in materials: Denis Rauter invites you to take a look at the filmstrip’s perforation – and the sound comes from the outermost grooves of a record.