Air Bed Movies
Date: May 17th, 2009, 8 p.m. + 9.30 p.m., May 18th, 2009, 8 p.m. + 9.30 p.m.
Location: Festival Centre at MuseumsQuartier [Info]
Tickets: 7 EUR (regular), 6 EUR (concessions)
The screen changes its position – from vertical to horizontal, the pictures are projected perpendicularly – the name of the game is: lie down, relax and (for the first time) vote for your favourite film! Stories about laughing men, crying women, dreams made of sand and impressive fantasy worlds – who needs a holiday with all that?
Total length: 64 min
We Could Have Helped

Sweden 2008, 2 min, language: without dialogue
director, screenplay, production, editor, music: Cecilia Lundqvist
Three sardonic gentlemen in chiaroscuro shirts invite you to laugh, join in their laughter or laugh at them. The choice is yours.
7:35 de la mañana

Spain 2003, 8 min, language: Spanish, subtitles: English
director, screenplay: Nacho Vigalondo | production: Eduardo Carneros, Javier Ibarretxe | photography: Jon D. Dominguez | editor: Javier Díaz Vega | music: Fernando Velázquez | cast: Nacho Vigalondo, Marta Belenguer, Antonio Tato, Borja Cobeaga, Javier Reguilón
A woman steps into her favourite café, just like every morning – but today something is different. A black and white café-musical, cheerful and sad at the same time.
Mit Haut und Haar

Austria 2008, 3 min, language: without dialogue
director: Manfred Rainer
The camera zooms in on the surface of a body, passing pores and stubbles, through wrinkles and chest hairs. By letting patterns evolve every now and then, Manfred Rainer not only makes for amusement, but also a little uneasiness.
Celluloidiva

Germany 2008, 12 min, language: English and others, subtitles: English
director, screenplay, production, editor: Harald Schleicher | music: Richard Kristen
Déjà-vus for cineastes: after his short film A Man’s Got to Do What a Man’s Got to Do Harald Schleicher examines the female stars of movie history and shows screen divas in all manner of moods.
No corras tanto (Take It Easy)

Spain 2008, 5 min, language: Spanish, subtitles: English
director, screenplay, production, photography, editor: César Díaz Meléndez | music: El Combolinga
Just through grains of sand this music video manages to create a wonderfully dreamy atmosphere. Just the right thing for lying on an airbed dreaming of the next sojourn in Spain.
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France 2008, 17 min, language: English
director, screenplay, editor: Edouard Salier | production: Nicolas Schmerkin | photography: Antoine Gallais Billaud, André Chemetoff | music: Doctor L | cast: Thomas Winter, Sarah Hilker, Vi Sapyyapi
Dive into visually stunning fantasy worlds that change constantly. Garish, sombre, booming, whispering, minimalistic, overworked. Just four letters hold everything together.
Noteboek (Notebook)

Netherlands 2008, 5 min, language: without dialogue
director, screenplay, production, photography, editor, music, cast: Evelien Lohbeck
This film takes you back in time, to a period when a "notebook" was a small book for drawing and doodling in. Playful animations turn the notebook into a multimedia wonder-tool.
Muto

Italy 2008, 7 min, language: without dialogue
director, screenplay, photography, editor: Blu | production: Mercurio Cinematografico Milano | editor: Andrea Martignoni
A graffito is brought to life through the camera, wanders over walls and house facades and goes through the most curious metamorphoses, till it disappears into thin air. A fascinating work by Italian artist Blu.
Der Conny ihr Pony

Germany 2008, 5 min, language: German
directors: Robert Pohle, Martin Hentze | text: Gabriel Vetter
Eleven year-old Conny can’t fit her oversized pony into the bus. The quest for culprits almost leads to the downfall of Switzerland.
Die winkende Frau

Germany 1996, 1 min, language: German
director, screenplay, photography, editor: Stefan Möckel | production: Stefan Möckel, Menekse Möckel
A film by German Super8-lover Stephan Möckel for the grand finale of Air Bed Movies. The title – The Waving Woman – says it all.
