15. Vienna Shorts
We need to disagree

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
FIDO FICTION & DOCUMENTARY – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Award Name | WIENER KURZFILMPREIS | PREIS DER JURY | Preis der Jury | PUBLIKUMSPREIS |
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Film | Mirage My Bros Diogo Baldaia | Fauve Jeremy Comte | Voices of Kidnapping Ryan McKenna | Retour à Genoa City Back to Genoa City Benoit Grimalt |
Meta data | pt 2017, 24 min | ca 2018, 15 min 52 sec | ca 2017, 14 min | fr 2017, 29 min |

AA ANIMATION AVANTGARDE – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Award Name | ASIFA Austria Award | Preis der Jury | Artist-in-Residence Stipendium | Lobende Erwähnung |
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Film | Ugly Nikita Diakur | Ugly Nikita Diakur | DIGITAL TRAUMA (And the Crystal Image) María Molina Peiró | Oh God Betina Bozek |
Meta data | de 2017, 11 min 54 sec | de 2017, 11 min 54 sec | nl 2017, 8 min 21 sec | pl 4 min |

ÖW AUSTRIAN COMPETITION

Award Name | Österreichischer Kurzfilmpreis | Preis der Jury | Lobende Erwähnung | ORF.AT Publikumspreis |
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Film | Operation Jane Walk Leonhard Müllner, Robin Klengel | Doppelgänger Michaela Taschek | Winter Bienen Winter Bees Josephine Ahnelt | Supernaked Super Naked Fabian Lang |
Meta data | at 2017, 20 min 54 sec | at 2017, 20 min 17 sec | at 2018, 13 min 42 sec | at 2017, 11 min 55 sec |

MUVI AUSTRIAN MUSIC VIDEO AWARD

Award Name | Österreichischer Musikvideopreis | Lobende Erwähnung | Internationaler Musikvideopreis | Lobende Erwähnung |
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Film | Frizzle Frizz – KIDS N CATS Patryk Senwicki, Dominic Spitaler | Der Zeitgeist macht Buh – Neuschnee Scary Zeitgeist – Neuschnee Anita Brunnauer | Pussy Money Weed – Tommy Cash Tommy Cash | Copyshop – Romano Markus Kaatsch, Jakob Grunert |
Meta data | at 2017, 3 min 57 sec | at 2017, 3 min 18 sec | ee 2018, 3 min 34 sec | de 2017, 10 min 43 sec |

VR THE WORLD – INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

Award Name | Virtual Reality & 360° Preis | Lobende Erwähnung | Publikumspreis | |
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Film | Devil's Lungs Hanna Pajala-Assefa, Alla Kovgan | Lake Baikal: The Science and Spirituality of Extreme Water Episode 1: Winter Spirit Michael Owen, Georgy Molodtsov | Fluchtpunkt Béla Baptiste | |
Meta data | fi/us 2018, 10 min 15 sec | ru/us 2016, 7 min 20 sec | at 2017, 6 min 18 sec |

VIENNA SHORTS Special Awards

Award Name | Elfi Dassanowsky Preis | Keep It Short Award | Prix très chic pour le film le plus extraordinaire | |
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Film | Lagi Senang Jaga Sekandang Lembu It's Easier to Raise Cattle Amanda Nell Eu | Ingwer Gegen Alles Gewinnerfilm "Keep It Short" Stefan Manuel Eggenweber, Stephan Lager | Lolana - Rising Puppie Krammer | |
Meta data | my 2017, 17 min 45 sec | at 2018, 1 min | at 2017, 5 min 44 sec |

TRAILER & ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
TRAILER
(Diego Costa Amarante, PT 2018, 01:56 min)
Artist in Residence Diogo Costa Amarante captured our sensitive side in the 2018 festival trailer. He knows we are always talking about you, you, you, you and you.
The trailer was created with the support of Q21 at MuseumsQuartier.