Virgil Widrich
* 1967 in Salzburg.
Virgil Widrich left the Vienna Film Academy just after a few weeks of attendance in 1986. During the following years he founded a film distribution, organized the film festival Diagonale in Salzburg, wrote scripts and worked in the multimedia sector. His Oscar nomination 2002 for Copy Shop shot Virgil Widrich to fame.
Official website: http://www.widrichfilm.com/
IMDb: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0927179/
FILMS directed by VIRGIL WIDRICH
Fast Film
Austria/Luxemburg 2003, 14 min
Fast Film is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three dimensional objects.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, Tribute to Virgil Widrich
Other presentations (selection):
Festival de Cannes 2003
Festival d'Annecy 2003
Edinburgh International Film Festival 2003
Copy Shop
Austria 2001, 12 min
The story of a man who copies himself until he fills up the entire world.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, Tribute to Virgil Widrich
Other presentations (selection):
Festival de Cannes 2001
Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2001
Filmfest Dresden 2001
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2001
Uppsala International Short Film Festival 2001
tx-transform
Austria 1998, 5 min
x-transform is a new technique which transposes the time (t) and space (x) axes in a film. Normally, each frame depicts an entire space, but only a brief moment in time (1/24 second). In tx-transformed films, this is reversed: Each frame shows a period of time in its entirety, but only a tiny portion of the space. This produces phenomena such as those described by Einstein in his theory of relativity.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, Tribute to Virgil Widrich
Other presentations (selection):
DOK Leipzig 1999
Diagonale Graz 1999
Stuttgart Filmwinter 2000
Making of tx-transform
5 min
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, Tribute to Virgil Widrich
Monster in Salzburg
Austria 1982, 12 min
A gigantic insect-like monster destroys the city of Salzburg. An oedipal drama.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, Tribute to Virgil Widrich
Auch Farbe kann träumen
Austria 1981, 12 min
Animated film by the then 13-year-old Virgil Widrich about a man and a small worm fleeing environmental destruction.
Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2007, Tribute to Virgil Widrich
OTHER FILMS:
Linksrechts (Leftright) (2001)
Heller als der Mond (Brighter Than The Moon) (2000)
Vom Geist der Zeit (The Spirit of Time) (1983-1985)
3 Mal Ulf (Three Times Ulf) (1980)
Gebratenes Fleisch (Fried Meat) (1980)
My Homelife (1980)
VIS featuring VIRGIL WIDRICH
- Text: Portrait Virgil Widrich | Short portrait of the artist by Daniel Ebner (VIS).