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Programme 1 - animation

20. Sep. 19.00 - Vienna
27. sep. 21.00- Budapest





FOX TOSSING
Zénó Mira



Hungary, 2023
7'48"
Animation



A garden party is held in the park of the baroque castle: the landscape is idyllic, the company is cozy, the food is aristocratic, and everything is traditional and refined. At the same time, in the other part of the garden, cages rattle, ropes rustle, and foxes whine. From the initial idyll, the film slowly moves to another level of pleasure, and a cruel game of "fox throwing" begins, which becomes increasingly bloody and inhumane.





GARRANO
Vasco Sá, David Doutel



Portuga,l 2022
14'08"
Animation



A Garrano horse is forced to pull a heavy load under a blazing sun. Young boy Joel discovers a man who is about to set a forest on fire.


David Doutel and Vasco Sá started co-directing animation films 12 years ago. Since then, they have presented 4 short films and are currently working on their first animated feature film. They are co-founders of BAP - Animation Studio, where they work as directors and producers.



HARDLY WORKING
Total Refusal



Austria, 2022
20'00"
Animation



Hardly Working sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.


The pseudo-marxist media guerilla Total Refusal explores and practices strategies for artistic intervention in contemporary computer games. It works with tools of appropriation and rededication of game resources. Their films and performances were presented among others at Berlinale ‘20 and at the MoMA in NYC and they recently received the award for the best Austrian short documentary (Diagonale’20, Graz).

Total Refusal currently are: Susanna Flock, Robin Klengel, Leonhard Müllner, Michael Stumpf



IN THE UPPER ROOM
Alexander Gratzer



Hungary, 2023
8'09"
Animation



Every season a young mole visits his blind grandfather, who lives deep underground in a comfortably decorated burrow. As the two grow older their relationship becomes more intense and important questions arise.



LA PERRA
Carlo Melo Gampert



France, 2023
14'05"
Animation



In Bogota, a bird-girl leaves behind the family home, her domineering mother and faithful dog to go and explore her sexuality.


Carla Melo Gampert (1993, Bogotá) is a visual artist who graduated from the Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá and from the Film program at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. Her graduate thesis, the animated short film POR AHORA UN CUENTO, had its international premiere at the Annecy Festival before travelling to Dok Leipzig, FicValdivia, Curta Kinoforum and São Paulo, among others. In addition to her work as a director, she curates audiovisual exhibitions such as Animación Porosa (Cinemateca de Bogotá, 2022). In LA PERRA, her first professional animated short, she continues her exploration about body and femininity.



THE QUEEN OF THE FOXES
Marina Rosset



Switzerland, 2022
8'50"
Animation



A teenager filmbuff and a single woman in her forties meet each other. Then they meet again and start to realize that they might have more in common, than meets the eye, and form an unlikely connection.



WILD SUMMON
Karni Arieli, Saul Freed



United Kingdom, 2023
14'40"
Animation



A natural history fantasy film, following the dramatic life cycle of the wild salmon in human form. Narrated by Marianne Faithfull.


Bafta nominated directing duo Karni and Saul, an Israeli British male female couple , Create mixed media films, commercials and music videos. Together they make "casual fantasy” films, a merging of beautiful photography and film with high-end animation and magical elements. In their art, Visual pleasure and emotional narrative are key. 
In 2010 Karni & Saul showcased their short film ”Turning”, for BBC, which was nominated for a BAFTA.
Their second short film “Flytopia” was commissioned by Film4 as part of the short-to-feature scheme, It has toured the festival's circuit and been screened worldwide. 
Karni and Saul's films have won awards at Annecy, British animation awards, and Clermont Ferrand festivals among many others. Karni and Saul have recently completed an epic two-year mixed media short film commission for Bfi called WILD SUMMON, a natural history fantasy.



WITCHFAIRY
Cedric Igodt, David Van de Weyer



Belgium, 2022
15'00"
Animation



Rosemary, a young fairy, leads a boring life at the fairytale castle. She’d rather be a witch so she can scream and get really messy. Her mother doesn’t like the sound of that, so Rosemary takes her stuff and sets off to the witch forest.


Cedric Igodt is a graduate from the Belgian Royal Institute for Theatre, Cinema and Sound. In 2006 he joined the animation studio nWave Pictures. In 2011 he set up his own studio where he became a director of animated short films for theme parks, such as Meet the Dinos and Little Dolphin. Witchfairy is his first animated narrative short film to be presented on a film festival.



programme 1 - experimental

17. Nov. 19.00 - vienna
21. nov. 18.00 - budapest



tx-reserve
Virgil Widrich



Austria, 2019
5'00"
Experimental



What happens in a cinema when you reverse space and time? Originally shot in 10K resolution and 360° at the legendary Babylon Berlin.



SHOOTING CROWS
Christine Hürzeler



Switzerland, 2018
20'00"
Experimental



A park in the fog. Crows flap and caw in the sky. A homeless man sleeps between the trees. Now and then a crow is shot: as a deterrent. The crows rally after every shot. A woman disappears. The police gather evidence. What is really going on? Are reality and imagination slowly blurring?



THE NAMES OF TREES
Pamela Falkenberg



United States, 2018
4'28"
Experimental



Images of decay and regeneration photographed using a video camera whose sensor has been modified for infrared photography create a post apocalyptic, strangely beautiful, but disconnected world. A series of largely deserted rural and urban landscapes concretizes the bittersweet memories of a failed relationship that haunts the narrator in Pamela Falkenberg and Jack Cochran’s film poem of Lucy English’s "The Names of Trees," for her Book of Hours project, http://thebookofhours.org/.



SCENES FROM A TRANSIENT HOME
Roger Horn



South Africa, 2019
13'08"
Experimental



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THE DIVINE WAY
Ilaria Di Carlo



Germany, 2018
15'00"
Experimental



Loosely based on Dante’s Divine Comedy, The Divine Way takes the viewer into the protagonist’s epic descent through an endless labyrinth of staircases. As the woman journey deeper, the staircases transform and she is trapped and pulled into their dangerous landscape.

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Anna Spence



United States, 2018
4'11"
Experimental



Booted from the limelight, Max Headroom now roves the video signal on the search for meaning. Once summoned to the screen, he talks to the audience in hopes of remembering his past life. As we watch Max, (and as he continues to watch us), he begins to understand what it will take to escape from his purgatory.



REALMS
Patrik Söderlund



Finland, 2018
20'38""
Experimental



Short film Realms is a voyage through time, evolution and the kingdoms of life towards the natural destruction wrought upon the planet by the human species.



CAVALCADE
Johann Lurf



Austria, 2019
4'30"
Experimental



Can we believe our eyes? The short films of Johann Lurf often explore the enigmatic territory between the real and the perceived, challenging our senses to comprehend visions and sounds taken from the environment around us by means of subtle, beautiful trompe l'œil effects. Cavalcade, equally dazzling in 2D or 3D, sees him make a direct intervention into physical space for the first time...



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