MONSTRA Festival

Austria Retrospective: Contemporary

Sessions:

29 March | CINEMA SÃO JORGE | 11:30

Fast Film

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2003 Duration: 14 mins.
Synopsis:
A kiss, a happy couple. Suddenly, the woman is kidnapped, and the man sets off to save her. A dramatic rescue story full of wild chase scenes begins.
Credits:
Direction: Virgil Widrich
Writers: Virgil Widrich
Production: Virgil Widrich Filmproduktion, Minotaurus Film, Amour Fou Filmproduktion
Animation: Walter Rafelsberger, Gernot Egger, Michael Lang, Markus Loder-Taucher, Alexandra Pauser, David Peischl, Christian Ursnik, Vinh-San Nguyen, Carmen Völker, Mario Waldhuber, Gerald Zahn
Music: Frédéric Fichefet
Sound: Frédéric Fichefet
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/12

Trilogy of Leaving

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2006 Duration: 6 mins.
Synopsis:
‘Trilogy of Leaving’ (2016) is a collection of three animated experiments that explore how the desire to leave can simultaneously exist as both a metaphorical and literal illusion, uncovering the inherent contradictions between freedom and entrapment.
Credits:
Direction: Anna Vasof
Writers: Anna Vasof
Production: Anna Vasof
Animation: Anna Vasof
Music: Anna Vasof
Sound: Anna Vasof
Distribution: Anna Vasof
Age Classification: M/12

Short Life

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2007 Duration: 9 mins.
Synopsis:
‘Short life’ (2008) is a drawn film. Each of its drawings is a tiny masterpiece, complex and precisely made. This produces unexpected shifts in perspective, as well as transformations and changes in lighting that lead from one state to another.
Credits:
Direction: Johanna Freise, Daniel Šulji?
Writers: Johanna Freise
Production: Johanna Freise, Daniel Sulji?
Animation: Johanna Freise
Music: Daniel Sulji?
Sound: Daniel Sulji?
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/12

Mystery Music

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2009 Duration: 5 mins.
Synopsis:
The minimalist drawings introduce the various classical instrument groups and evoke entertaining effects through the surprising contrast to the avant-garde film music.
Credits:
Direction: Nicolas Mahler
Writers: Nicolas Mahler
Production: Nicolas Mahler
Animation: Thomas Renoldner
Music: Ulrich Troyer
Sound: Kassian Troyer
Distribution: Thomas Renoldner
Age Classification: M/12

ABC's of Death 2 - Title Sequence

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2014 Duration: 1 mins.
Synopsis:
An old school book comes to life in the title sequence for ‘ABCs of Death 2’ (2014), an anthology featuring 26 short tales of death by directors from all around the globe (including 2 animated segments by Bill Plympton and Robert Morgan).
Credits:
Direction: Wolfgang Matzl
Writers: Wolfgang Matzl
Production: Moana Rom
Animation: Wolfgang Matzl
Music: André Roessler & Isabel Greiwe
Sound: Wolfgang Matzl
Distribution: Wolfgang Matzl
Age Classification: M/12

Ex Terrat

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2016 Duration: 6 mins.
Synopsis:
‘Ex Terrat’ (2016) is an experimental audiovisual animation based on an art residency in Paris. The idea was to explore and be inspired by the urban landscapes & textures, the city, the street art, the people and the museums of Paris as a starting point. Reinhold Bidner photographed, portrayed, filmed and sound-recorded this ambivalent metropolis and used various techniques to create distinctive images and animations.
Credits:
Direction: Reinhold Bidner
Writers: Reinhold Bidner
Production: gold extra
Animation: Reinhold Bidner
Music: Reinhold Bidner
Sound: Reinhold Bidner
Distribution: gold extra
Age Classification: M/12

Vienna Table Trip

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2016 Duration: 1 mins.
Synopsis:
You don't need to leave the coffee house to travel all over Vienna. This “table trip” is a miniature journey through the city, staged with saucers, cups, plates, knives, forks and souvenirs…
Credits:
Direction: Virgil Widrich
Writers: Virgil Widrich
Production: Virgil Widrich
Animation: Virgil Widrich
Music: Siegfried Friedrich
Sound: Siegfried Friedrich
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/12

Late Season

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2017 Duration: 7 mins.
Synopsis:
Late season - that's the calm that follows from summer's blazing energy. Late season means that shadows grow, awareness creeps in and every holiday comes to an end at some point.
Credits:
Direction: Daniela Leitner
Writers: Daniela Leitner
Production: Daniela Leitner
Animation: Markus Wagner, Christian Leitner, Martin Lorenz
Music: The Golden Fields
Sound: Silvio Canazei
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/12

Applesauce

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2019 Duration: 7 mins.
Synopsis:
While animals debate about freedom and existence, the serious practices of reality are calling. You just have to wash, peel, cut and mash it. The apple.
Credits:
Direction: Alexander Gratzer
Writers: Alexander Gratzer
Production: Alexander Gratzer
Animation: Alexander Gratzer
Music: Alexander Gratzer
Sound: Alexander Gratzer
Distribution: Interfilm Berlin
Age Classification: M/12

Collapsing Mies

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2020 Duration: 7 mins.
Synopsis:
Translating the architectural concept of “fluid space” into fleeting moving images, Claudia Larcher uses fragments of photos of Mies van der Rohe’s structures to create a space that is continually re-creating itself and dissolving. An artistic approach to the paradigms of modern architecture, which causes a collapse of the guiding concepts of transparency and reduction of form.
Credits:
Direction: Claudia Larcher
Writers: Claudia Larcher
Production: Claudia Larcher
Animation: Claudia Larcher
Music: Alexander J. Eberhard
Distribution: sixpackfilm
Age Classification: M/12