Schöpfungsgeschichte - Creation Story

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1920 Duration: 5 mins.

Synopsis: In this amusing film from the early days of cinema, the process of creating an animated film is vividly reflected in the creation of the world and man by God's hand. A certain liberality of the 1920s is expressed here when God and his helper voyeuristically enjoy the sexual acts of Adam and Eve behind the bushes and comment on them accordingly. In the end, it becomes clear that this unusually long narrative film was dedicated to an advertising purpose: to sell clothes to those expelled from paradise.

Credits:

Writers: anonymous

Animation: anonymous

Music: anonymous

Sound: anonymous

Age Classification: M/12

Festival

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1985 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: At an international animated film festival, interesting encounters and conversations arise on different levels of society. A variety of films, ideas, and nationalities convey the typical festival atmosphere, with lively applause, between parties, speeches, and words of thanks.

Credits:

Direction: Hubert Sielecki

Writers: Hubert Sielecki

Production: Hubert Sielecki

Animation: Hubert Sielecki

Distribution: Hubert Sielecki

Age Classification: M/12

Mecanomagie

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1996 Duration: 16 mins.

Synopsis: A surreal journey through Northern Luxembourg. A landscape is altered. Everything in it is subjected to another rhythm, everything moves fast, and changes at high speed. ‘Mécanomagie’ (1996) generates, via stop-motion, an autonomous world, hallucinated like a strange dream.

Credits:

Direction: Bady Minck

Writers: Bady Minck

Production: Jan Thiltges

Animation: Bady Minck, Stefan Stratil

Music: André Mergenthaler

Sound: Carlo Toss

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Wieder Holung

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 1997 Duration: 8 mins.

Synopsis: The basis is simple, while simultaneously the consequences are comprehensive. Everything is drawn, everything is animated, and everything is either black or white. Within these guidelines for the film, all fixed qualities are abrogated, and even a constant like the woman, the "heroine" of ‘Wieder Holung’ (1997) is subject to transformation and transforming moods.

Credits:

Direction: Nana Swiczinsky

Writers: Nana Swiczinky

Production: Nana Swiczinky

Animation: Nana Swiczinky

Music: The Splinters, Flo Prix

Sound: Flo Prix

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Flaschko, der Mann in der Heizdecke 1-3

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2002 Duration: 5 mins.

Synopsis: The cult-status-worthy short films for the comic series of the same name are centered around a slightly pathological, or even completely ordinary mother-son-relationship. Flaschko likes to cozy up while watching television in his electric blanket that he has no intention of leaving.

Credits:

Direction: Nicolas Mahler

Writers: Nicolas Mahler

Production: Thomas Renoldner

Animation: Sabine Groschup

Music: José Parrondo

Distribution: Nicolas Mahler

Age Classification: M/12

G_Girls (Ginny)

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2015 Duration: 5 mins.

Synopsis: ‘Ginny’ (2015) is based on a story taken from an English newspaper. Four teenagers, the youngest about 14 years old, threw a cat out of the window of a towerblock - four times in a row. The film develops the story in the form of a fictional conversation between a psychologist and a 14-year-old girl.

Credits:

Direction: Susi Jirkuff

Writers: Susi Jirkuff

Production: Susi Jirkuff

Animation: Susi Jirkuff

Sound: Michael Schreiber

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

The Outlander

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2018 Duration: 5 mins.

Synopsis: In the 16th Century, the elephant Süleyman journeys from Ceylon to Portugal, then walks the whole way from Lisbon to Vienna through the Alps in five months. To be a living royal gift is a tough job, where even death is not a peaceful end.

Credits:

Direction: Ani Antonova

Writers: Ani Antonova

Production: Omega Films (BG) St. Pölten University of Applied Sciences (AT) Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias (PT)

Animation: Ani Antonova, Dimiter Ovtcharov

Music: Valeria Popova

Sound: Valeria Popova

Distribution: Sixpack Film

Age Classification: M/12

Coming Home

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2019 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: Finally, the Cowboys have lost against the Natives. So US citizens with migration background are coming home…

Credits:

Direction: Benjamin Swiczinsky

Writers: Benjamin Swiczinsky

Production: NÖT (New Austrian Animation Group)

Animation: Benjamin Swiczinsky

Music: Bobby Vinton

Sound: Alexander Zlamal

Distribution: SND Films

Age Classification: M/12

In Her Boots

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2019 Duration: 6 mins.

Synopsis: Heidi is experiencing strange things. While her granddaughter is visiting, she suddenly embarks on a hiking journey, to the deepest parts of the Alps, revealing the reason for her devoted attachment to her hiking shoes. A story about Heidi’s attempt to retain her identity and autonomy.

Credits:

Direction: Kathrin Steinbacher

Writers: Kathrin Steinbacher

Production: Royal College Of Art

Animation: Kathrin Steinbacher

Sound: Ruanth Chrisley Thyssen, Kathrin Steinbacher, Fabio Schurischuster

Distribution: sixpackfilm

Age Classification: M/12

Paco

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2020 Duration: 4 mins.

Synopsis: While waiting for the train, the bunny Paco is plagued by intrusive thoughts.

Credits:

Direction: Susanna Ruttnig, Stefan Tantana

Writers: Susanna Ruttnig

Production: Susanna Ruttnig & Stefan Tantana

Animation: Susanna Ruttnig & Stefan Tantana

Music: Stefan Tantana & Alex Seibel

Sound: Stefan Tantana

Distribution: Susanna Ruttnig & Stefan Tantana

Age Classification: M/12

In the Upper Room

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2022 Duration: 8 mins.

Synopsis: 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.

Credits:

Direction: Alexander Gratzer

Writers: Alexander Gratzer

Production: MOME Budapest, Jószef Fülöp

Animation: Alexander Gratzer, Natália Andrade, Mariai Gábor, Sebastian Doringer

Music: Alexander Gratzer

Sound: Alexander Gratzer, Kalotás Csaba

Distribution: Interfilm Berlin

Age Classification: M/12

Shroomsday

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2022 Duration: 3 mins.

Synopsis: ‘Shroomsday’ (2022) is a comedic 3D Animation, that tells the story of a town facing a fungal infestation. Multiple different characters are dealing with the threat in their own unique ways. The visual style combines a very stylized look with some more realistic looking assets.

Credits:

Direction: Daniel Denzer, Marius Oelsch, Rita Weiss, Alessa Wolfram

Writers: Daniel Denzer, Marius Oelsch, Rita Weiss, Alessa Wolfram

Production: FH Upper Austria, Campus Hagenberg

Animation: Rita Weiss, Alessa Wolfram

Music: Maximilian Wöß

Sound: Maximilian Wöß

Distribution: Rita Weiss and FH Upper Austria, Campus Hagenberg

Age Classification: M/12

My favorite things

Country: AUSTRIA Year: 2023 Duration: 6 mins.

Synopsis: ‘My Favorite Things’ (2023) is an essayistic animation exploring personal and collective memory through methods like history from below and counter-narrative. An interruption happens when erotic scenes boycott the veracity of the memory exercise or perhaps make it more human. We are what we want to remember and what we want to keep to ourselves.

Credits:

Direction: Oscar Cueto

Writers: Oscar Cueto

Production: Oscar Cueto

Animation: Oscar Cueto

Music: Oscar Cueto

Sound: Oscar Cueto

Distribution: Oscar Cueto

Age Classification: M/12