MAPPAMUNDI
fiction, 45min, D: Bady Minck link link link vimeo
Through the eyes of cosmic cartographers, MappaMundi takes its viewer on an accelerated voyage through 950 million years of Earth development, 150.000 years of human migration and 15.000 years of human cartography. The film visualises the continuous change of our world, a change that is unnoticeable for a human being in a single lifetime. Its a film about the image of the world that we have been sketching repeatedly anew for thousands of years. With over hundred world maps from the past 15.000 years, the development of our view of the world from its beginnings to this day is analysed and illustrated in its diversity.
LEFTRIGHT
fiction, 70min, D: Tom Marschall & Anna Mendelssohn link link
Alex und Martha, ein Paar Mitte Dreißig, fahren in ihrem Vintage Volvo durch Wälder und Wiesen, vorbei an Straßenbaustellen, Ölraffinerien und Shoppingmalls.
Sie sprechen Englisch, ihr Akzent könnte aus Brüssel, Wien oder Rom stammen.
Ihre anfänglich perfekte Harmonie schlägt überraschend in ein nicht enden wollendes Streitgespräch um.
WALDSZENEN
fiction, 30min, D: Annja Krautgasser link
Waldszenen ist ein strukturell–experimenteller Film, der im Wald spielt. Protagonistin des Films ist die Figur Alva, die als figurative „Schablone“ ohne konkrete Handlung durch den Wald streift. In diverse Szenen unterteilt, stellt der Film neben der bruchstückhaften Gedankenwelt Alvas eine Art Versuchsanordnung dar, in der das Motiv „Wald“ als politisches, kulturelles und gesellschaftliches Bezugssystem dient.
REGRETS OF THE PAST
science-fiction, 45min, D: Berhard Weber link vimeo facebook movie
Hinter dem Film-Projekt REGRETS OF THE PAST steckt ein Team aus Österreichischen Filmemachern, die es sich zum Ziel gesetzt haben, einen hochwertigen Star Wars Fanfilm „made in Austria“ zu kreieren.
Die Geschichte, die erzählt wird, setzt nach den Ereignissen rund um die Entstehung des neugegründeten Imperiums (Episode III) ein und beschäftigt sich mit dem Schicksal zweier sich auf der Flucht befindlichen Jedi Ritter.
LAS MENINAS
fiction, 30min, D: Dániel Béres link link
After making a controversial decision during a Football match, a Referee travels to Madrid, Spain on Holiday. While trying to come to terms with what has happened, he gets lost among the labyrinth-like underground corridors of the Prado Museum and finds himself inside the world of Diego Velazquez’ famous painting Las Meninas. Will he also find a solution to his dilemma?
KAFKA, KIFFER UND CHAOTEN
fiction, 85min, D: Kurt Palm link link vimeo
Fünf völlig unterschiedliche Studenten teilen sich die Liebe zu Gras, Alkohol, die Verehrung für Franz Kafka und eine reichlich versiffte Wohnung. Was die perfekte Ausgangsbasis für einen Horrorfilm sein könnte, wird bei Kurt Palms neuestem Kinofilm zu einem kaleidoskopisch bunten Roadmovie, zur bösen Satire auf die österreichische Filmwirtschaft – und zu einer absurd-realitätsnahen Komödie über den Sinn des Lebens.
FAST FILM
fiction, 14min, D: Virgil Widrich link
Fast Film is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three dimensional objects.
A woman is abducted and a man comes to her rescue, but during their escape they find themselves in the enemy’s secret headquarters. This classic plot conceals an hommage to action movies. In 14 minutes, Fast Film (a play on words, English fast and German fast, meaning “almost”) provides a tour de force through film history, from its silent beginnings to present-day Hollywood. The filmmakers printed out some 65,000 individual images from 300 films, folded them into paper objects, arranged them in complex tableaux, and then brought them to life with an animation camera in a two-year production process.
COPY SHOP
fiction, 12min, D: Virgil Widrich link vimeo
The story of a man who works in a copy shop and copies himself until he fills the whole world.
The film Copy Shop actually consists of nearly 18.000 photocopied digital frames, which are animated and filmed with a 35mm camera.
BRIGHTER THAN THE MOON
fiction, 88min, D: Virgil Widrich info
An Italian named Paolo loses his job at a junkyard. At the same time the Viennese ex-contractor Melles and his ambitious Rumanian driver Knarek rob a bank. Melles discovers that Knarek has smuggled his fiancée Julie over the border in the trunk of his car and tosses her out on the street. Julie meets Paolo who then gives her a ride to Vienna.
The two Lower-Austrian detectives Fischer and Gudrawzcuk begin their search for the bank robbers. Fischer is young and inexperienced, Gudrawczuk is old and knowing – his most bizarre way of investigation troubles his young partner…
When Paolo and Julie pass another bank, Julie tries to pull a robbery but winds up fainting. Paolo takes Julie to his apartment, but she isn’t interested in Paolo. What has captured her interest are Austrian banks, which she says shine »brighter than the moon«.
