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- Haunted by a painting of his grandparents seated in their living room, director Joseph Koerner unearths in Vienna the remarkable story behind a vanished interior.
- This documentary offers a glimpse into Carl Andersens uncommon art and life. Born in Vienna, the capital of Austria in 1958, he participated in the development of Viennas subculture through his bar called "Fun Factory". It was a unique place to have some cheap drinks, see strange movies and join concerts in the cellar. He also influenced the Viennese film community by bringing art house and underground movies, like "Liquid Sky" (1982), or "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" (1973) in uncut versions to the theaters. As he was a film maniac he started to direct movies by himself. His first two movies "I was a Teenage Zabbadoing" (1988) and "Mondo Weirdo - a Trip to Paranoia Paradise"(1990) became underground classics. In the late 80's Andersen went to Berlin. There he directed and produced more than 10 No-Budget movies. Diffic ult relationships and the process of filmmaking itself were his main themes. He got lost in alcoholism and committed suicide in August 2012. The directors Martin Nechvatal and Gerald Jindra follow his artistic life and show Andersens cinematic work from the beginning until the end. People who worked with him, loved and hated him and who were influenced by him portray a ruptured personality, torn between passion and rebellion, between alcohol addiction and a will for freedom.
- "Under the Underground" guides us through the improvised spaces of Janka Industries, an underground cellar vault and creative microcosm of Vienna's subculture. Voodoo Jürgens and Bands such as Petra und der Wolf and Tankris practice and perform here in the midst of a bizarre hodge-podge of electronic scrap. A music film and an ultimate underground homage that cinematically captures the magic of the site. It would be best not to try some things presented in this film at home, for one thing, if you attach any importance to sparing your body the risk of being slammed by a high voltage bolt of electricity. Fact is there are unsecure electrical experiments being conducted in a surreal parallel universe set up by the Viennese musician, technician and sound engineer Chris Janka in rambling catacombs somewhere beneath Vienna's seventh district - as if this was at all normal. Janka is incessantly building and tinkering with his equipment and he seems to derive pure joy from his inventions and test assemblies, even if their purpose is not always clear to outsiders. At the end of the 1980s, squatters and punk musicians shared this place with packs of rats that came and went. In the meantime, it is occupied by amplifiers, drum sets, retro reel-to-reel tape recorders and mixing boards for professional recording sessions. Director Angela Christlieb portrays the site and its master of ceremonies using dynamic, densely processed images that interweave musical interludes by such uncompromising niche acts as Blueblut, Schapka, Petra und der Wolf and MCRhine, while including an appearance by the host's brother, Ali Janka - member of the artist group Gelitin. Christlieb presents the Janka brothers as holy fools engaged in absurd artist practices while they narrate how, over the course of decades, the cellar passageways became a studio. They recall how absurd but also romantically punk those early years felt, back when they lived here without electricity, money or running water - and always including a pinch of mortal danger. But in truth what really threatens this underground paradise comes from outside - and outside the non-commercial logic at work here. (Stefan Grissemann)
- Traumatized by the untimely death of her brother when they both were children Yasmina lives an isolated life in the village Angloville. One day a mysterious man comes to the village and invites her to a picnic in the woods. She decides to take the risk and finds a long hidden treasure.
- "Antonio José. Pavana triste" narrates the life of the composer Antonio José Martínez Palacios (1902-1936), an almost forgotten member of the musical generation of '27 and murdered at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.
- A man, who is trying to come to terms with the death of a young woman, by chance witnesses a murder. The victim manages to hand him a mysterious business card, which also seems to be of interest to the masked killers. He starts investigating on his own initiative, while the barrier between reality and fantasy slowly but surely becomes indistinct...
- What is the silent moment between thoughts, glances, and memories? "The Remembering Movement" thinks poetically about this moment. This film depicts an experimental and poetic film triptych: "Thinking-Chant", "Gaze-Frame", and "Light-Texture" based on the poem "Since Then" by Marion Steinfellner and Mersolis Schöne. This is connected by Michael Fischer's soundscaping, which combines poetry and sound into a rhizomatic audio fabric triptych.
- Sleazy jazzy Exotica TripPop as luxury drowned homage to 70s Euro-Grindhouse Cinema and its famed cult directors like Jess Franco, Jean Rollin or Harry Kümel: Red plush, opium n'a serious lack of oxygen. Surrounded by bizarre costumes and rituals, seductive singer Laura Mura breaks the power of horny kingsmen and lusty leatherslaves. A final return to a storytelling narrative in videoclips, not seen since the glory days of Kate Bush. Cinematic opulence, shot in Viennas famous, recently burned down Sophiensäle, that could leave its DV origin far behind by sheer tasteful style and won international recognition, airplay and a prize.
- Somewhere in a hiding place, a survivor hopes for help.
- A surreal journey into the human abyss deriving from Stephanie Winter's cinematic interpretation of Heinrich Heine's poem 'Der Doppelgänger'.
- A look behind the scenes of one of the largest cultural radio stations in Europe, Ö1. The film outlines the current challenges of making radio in an era in which public media is under pressure from various sides.
- A Czarist refugee, separated from her husband, gets a job as a nightclub singer in Vienna and has to decide later if she wants to rejoin him.
- The luxury ocean liner Baron Gautsch was the pride of the Austrian merchant fleet. It was the best, the safest and the fastest means of transport of the Habsburg Empire and was rightly considered the Austro-Hungarian Titanic.
- 20061h 20m8.2 (6)TV Movie
- The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
- This is a documentary film-a portrait of the great Bulgarian bass singer Nikolai Giaurov.
- "Some wine and a bit of love" deals first of all with the love to the (Austrian) wine. One day long we go along with an impassioned wine drinker, let's call him Franz, indulging his passion: the drinking of wine - the careless life between fields and "Heurigen". He hitchhikes through his life till he suddenly - after some wine - meets a bit of love. And how he has always had got the right touch for the best wine he finally recognizes the right moment and - how could it be other than this - knows how to keep hold of it.
- A man eyes a beautiful woman sitting at a bar. He prepares to make his move - but it's not as easy as it seems.