Emma is a 50 year old unemployed mother of two grown up children, who's husband is looking for his sexual awaking - with another woman. The thought of filing for divorce also turns out as a financial threat for Emma. She starts looking for jobs and ends up as a salesperson in an "erotic market", run by Charlie. She quickly realizes that the ranch of products in the shop is not ...
As costs for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia spiraled to in excess of $50 billion dollars, Putin's Games goes behind the scenes to investigate why the first Winter Games to be held in a sub-tropical resort have become the most expensive Olympics ever. With extraordinary access to top government officials and wealthy Russian businessmen, the documentary follows the pre...
A static shot shows part of a landscape, a serene body of water in front of a mountain. A motorboat enters the picture from the right, obeying the directions sent by radio and forming a spiral in the water′s surface. The boat then turns to the left and leaves the scene; solely its wake is visible for a time.
Reign of Silence records a human intervention in nature. Lukas Marxt e...
Siegfried A. Fruhauf′s Exterior Extended is a prime example of an artistic strategy whereby a maximum effect is achieved through the combination of a minimum of individual elements. A 35mm film with thirty–six photos on it suffices as starting material for a stringent study on the theme of spatial perception in film. As motif, Fruhauf takes a dilapidated ruin of a house in the ...
Invited by the Viennale, the legendary 90-year-old French film essayist Chris Marker has recently created a one-minute festival trailer, following in the footsteps of directors such as Agnès Varda, Stan Brakhage, Jean-Luc Godard and David Lynch, who have done so in the past. The Viennale has chosen Marker’s work as its “anniversary trailer” because in it, Marker – like no other...
The annual festival trailer has been one of the Viennale's special features for quite some time now. It is not a commercial trailer as such, but rather a small, autonomous piece of cinema, standing on its own and for the festival alike.
In the case of James Benning's work this short trailer is a true action film. Benning shot the work process in a steelworks in the Ruhr area. O...
菲利普是一个年轻而成功的演员，在维也纳和汉堡的一线剧院工作。他把时间花在阅读新剧本、排练和表演上，逐渐失去了与日常现实的联系。菲利普遇到沃尔特之后，与他开始一段暧昧的友谊，同时他必须面对邻居维克托的命运，他被提醒说，生命比舞台更重要。
21 fragments of a feature film, made in India, found in casablance, adapted in Vienna.
這是有史以來第二次印尼人民可以投票選出自己的總統。然而，有兩個具非凡個人魅力的女子不滿足於只是投票。住在位於熱帶地區大城市貧民窟的戴拉奶奶，和聰慧的沃達海飛茲打算收集150萬個經常被當地武斷的正義，和對於全球資本的渴望所挾持的窮人簽名。一名菁英份子的微弱力量真的可以推翻多數人的力量嗎？抑或「真正的民主」只是理想呢？透過這部政治之路的紀錄片，導演描繪了在他母親家鄉的種種社會變遷和改善。
艾斯坎布魯爾立基於維也納。1975年在德國漢堡出生，在維也納大學修讀傳播學、社會學和心理學，並在科隆媒體藝術學院從事畢業後的電影攝製。他的電影曾參加許多國際競賽包括柏林影展、愛丁堡國際電影節, 香港國際電影節, 里斯本國際電影節 等。他曾獲得2005年對角線影展的最佳紀綠片獎。此外，他的作品也曾在科克影展、鹿特丹影展以及坎城影展播放。
Fast forward. A camera rushes across Argentina′s stone desert toward a cactus and crashes headfirst through an opening into the plant′s interior. There, a view opens up of an eerie universe. Vibrating insect wings beat, swishing against one another, glistening with a toxic beauty, and wind themselves out from a plastic bottle top. Then they transform into little Sputniks with t...
