Bruce (b. 1949) and Norman Yonemoto (1946–2014) were frequent collaborators from 1976 until Norman's death, working at the intersection of experimental cinema, media, and fine arts. A frequent setting for their films is the art world, which is also exemplified in their collaborations with artists such as Mike Kelly, Tony Oursler, and Mary Wo…
Viktoria Schmid has established herself as a sought-after film artist since her first releases in the 2010s. Her works are shown in renowned festivals and have been the subject of survey programs, and her 16mm installations can be seen alongside her cyanotypes in exhibition halls around the world. With a background in the punk music scene and as a…
The Places of Time
Hans Scheugl, born in 1940, is a pioneer of the strong experimental cinema in Austria, which was effectively merged through the formation of the Austrian Filmmakers Cooperative, an association formed in 1968. He is one of the key chroniclers of his time. Without his books Erweitertes Kino. Die Wiener Filme der 60er J…
For the first time, sixpackfilm, Breitenseer Lichtspiele and Filmmuseum are joining forces to present the two programme series IN PERSON and FOCUS ON, showcasing the work of Austrian-Bulgarian film artist Borjana Ventzislavova, whose works have been featured in numerous exhibitions and media art and film festivals worldwide, including Belvedere 21…
Thirteen years ago, Kurdwin Ayub was first honored with a special at the Viennale. At the time, the filmmaker—born in Iraq and raised in Vienna—was just 22 years old and already making waves with her performative video works. Her pop-cultural exploration of gender clichés, authenticity, and self-staging was as radical as it was …
Jan Soldat is one of the most unconventional filmmakers of our time, his films have been shown at renowned festivals such as Cannes, the Berlinale, Rotterdam and Karlovy Vary, as well as at short, porn and niche festivals. His films can be roughly categorized into two groups of works:
1. date films, special documentary forms, which successively cr…
MONOGRAPHIE / Viennale
A cooperation between Viennale and sixpackfilm, curated by Daniela Zahlner and Dietmar Schwärzler.
Programm 1: TRANCE
with a concert/Live act by JUNG AN TAGEN
TEOCALLI, 2024, 41 min
20.10.2024, 7.00 p.m., Filmmuseum
TEOCALLI is one of the most recent productions by Los Ingrávidos, whose ever-…
"The beginning began with a downfall as always when I begin," wrote artist and filmmaker Friederike Pezold in 1979 about the creation of her film Toilette. At this point the work had already celebrated its premiere at the Berlinale Forum. Downfall was averted and a virtue was made out of necessity. This already establishes some of the core, resist…
Cause of Death (AT/ZA 2020, 20 min)
When I Grow Up I Want To Be A Black Man (AT/ZA 2017, 10 min)
Loving in Between (AT/ZA 2023, 18 min)
Jyoti Mistry’s archival trilogy on race, gender, and sexuality deals with the racialization of Black masculinity and racist violence, intersectional sexism and femicide, queer sexuality and love. The footage …
Who is Susan Mogul? Part of the answer to this question can be found in the pioneering video artworks she made in the early 1970s, which took the form of a performative autobiography staged before the camera. If what we see is to be believed, then Susan Mogul is a decidedly witty feminist with an engaging and expressive laugh, whose work focuses o…