sixpackfilm has been invited again to present a showcase of recent acquisitions within the special distributors programs of Oberhausen Shortfilm Festival. Due to pandemia-restrictions the festival was forced to display it's programs in the internet. Program-windows and details can be found here
sixpackfilm was founded in 1990 to organize a comprehensive (one of the first of its kind) found footage film show at the Stadtkino. After its great success, we expanded the aim of the association to include the establishment of a sales organization for Austrian artistic films of all styles.
30 years later, sixpackfilm is an internationally estab…
The open-air short film festival dotdotdot presents a personal exhibition on Linz filmmaker EDITH STAUBER at the Volkskundemuseum Vienna on August 8, 2019.
From the outdoor pool to the emergency room, from the church pew to the sofa, from the everyday to the extraordinary: In her miniatures at the interface between film, drawing and painting, Lin…
VOLXkino 2019 – 30 YEARS of OPEN AIR - WANDER CINEMA SEESTADT ASPERN: THE WANDERING WANDER-CINEMA. The proverbial mobility of VOLXkino is taken to the extreme here. A cinematic walk by VOLXkino with its guests leads through Seestadt Aspern to three locations, where selected building walls and facades become temporary cinema screens for the p…
Analog traces as memory images in a post-human world. While people haunt (cinema) rooms like ghosts, images and the way they are read are subject to machine computing logic and its algorithms. An open system of permanent scanning, copying and data management. What does a visual memory of learning machines look like? (Gerald Weber)
One Is Not Enough is the title of the second comprehensive monograph on the photographic and cinematic work of Friedl Kubelka, who as a filmmaker has been calling herself Friedl vom Gröller since 2009. The ambiguous title alludes to the structural credo of Friedl Kubelka's artistic practice of placing many photographs alongside a single one. …
Ruth Beckermann, born in Vienna in 1952, has been creating essay films and documentaries for 40 years and is well known internationally as one of Austria’s most courageous and spirited filmmakers. An examination of ”the work of memory“ combined with a close observation of present circumstances is at the core o…
Tina Leisch's documentary film TANZ UND GIB IHM! presents 15 Viennese boys and young men from a wide variety of homes, with different family languages and with very different starting capital for the realization of very different dreams.
They meet their heroes such as Max Schrems, who successfully sued Facebook, Franz Viehböck, who was the fir…
"This basic idea: to achieve as much as possible with as little means as possible ... living spaces that are intended to create space for a real life beyond the prescribed functions." (Walter Sobotka)
The film attempts to capture the search for this "real life" in images and accompanies residents in their everyday lives in their houses and garden…
sixpackfilm was founded a "round" 24 years ago, initially just to be able to put on a film show. This goal soon expanded. What was missing was an organization that would implement innovative film in the current art scene in this country. Nor should the field be left to commercial structures. We wanted to work as an intermediary for the audience an…