Ruth Beckermann, born in Vienna in 1952, has been creating essay films and documentaries for 40 years and is well known internationally as one of Austria’s most courageous and spirited filmmakers. An examination of ”the work of memory“ combined with a close observation of present circumstances is at the core o…
Tina Leisch's documentary film TANZ UND GIB IHM! presents 15 Viennese boys and young men from a wide variety of homes, with different family languages and with very different starting capital for the realization of very different dreams.
They meet their heroes such as Max Schrems, who successfully sued Facebook, Franz Viehböck, who was the fir…
"This basic idea: to achieve as much as possible with as little means as possible ... living spaces that are intended to create space for a real life beyond the prescribed functions." (Walter Sobotka)
The film attempts to capture the search for this "real life" in images and accompanies residents in their everyday lives in their houses and garden…
sixpackfilm was founded a "round" 24 years ago, initially just to be able to put on a film show. This goal soon expanded. What was missing was an organization that would implement innovative film in the current art scene in this country. Nor should the field be left to commercial structures. We wanted to work as an intermediary for the audience an…
We borrowed the title for the new sixpackfilm festival from the book by Christa Wolf and the film adaptation of the same name by Konrad Wolf. The divided sky seemed so appropriate for this special variant of traveling cinema: the endless horizon, the possibility of gaining diverse impressions and insights both aesthetically and in terms of content…
In March 1994, one of the most comprehensive retrospectives of Austrian avant-garde film to date was launched at the Art Institute of Chicago in the USA: eight programs, curated by the director of the San Francisco Cinematheque Steve Anker, which toured the world following the Chicago show and were shown in a total of 23 cities (including Stadtkin…
Choreography in film is as old as film itself. It therefore goes without saying that the media of film and video are used and sought as interdisciplinary forms of expression for the art of dance. Conversely, filmmakers use motifs from dance or choreographed movement as central building blocks in their works. Of course, this program only offers an …
Performance art is currently booming as a form of artistic expression. The art genre not only combines all disciplines from theater, dance, actionism, painting to pop culture, it also enables the merging of subjective experiences and socio-political issues. Despite numerous differences between contemporary and historical performances, which certai…
VISIONary sees itself as a mediator of innovative positions in contemporary Austrian audiovisual art, specifically short films, experimental films, documentaries and music videos, which are rarely shown outside the Viennese art house cinemas and festivals in the federal states.
At the beginning of the 1950s, a new development in cinematography be…
Mathematical concepts in experimental film and video. The title of the film/video show is a paraphrase of an influential manifesto by the Hungarian Bauhaus master and constructivist Lászlò Moholy-Nagy, which was first published posthumously in 1947: "Vision in Motion". The "strict" spirit of mathematics is ostentatiously put in the p…