15. Vienna Shorts

A “raucous blend of cinema art and wild jamboree”—this is how the magazine “profil” described our festival, which—fifteen years after its foundation as a students initiative—was more driven than ever in honoring short-format filmmaking. In 2018, we celebrated our passion for unconventional cinema and the half anniversary of VIS Vienna Shorts over seven spring days with some 300 current and historical films in six main venues.

Fifty years after the year 1968, our focus topic We Need To Disagree recalled the importance of political debate and opposition, while the film exhibition shaping democracy examined Austria’s self image 100 years after the Republic’s founding. In our Spotlights program, Mark Toscano presented restored treasures from the Academy Film Archive, while two solo retrospectives honored the work of animation artist Martha Colburn and Expanded Cinema pioneer Ernst Schmidt jr.. As a new addition to our four long-time competitions, VR the World presented 360° films.

Showreel 2018

Catalogue 2018

Program folder 2018

Annual report 2018

Trailer: shaping democracy