The monthly program series "Home Stories" started in November 1998 in cooperation with the Filmcasino in Vienna and was continued from March 2003 as "Home Stories +" in the Topkino. There were - quote from the program folder - "short feature films, documentaries and the avant-garde. Brand new and salvaged treasures from overgrown terrain were shown. The completion of a new, successful festival runner gave rise to a showcase of works and encounters with international productions were sought."
Where the Streets Have No Name
Tue April 12, 2005, 19:00 h
Top-Kino

In Where the Streets Have No Name, anonymous transit and work spaces that guarantee the functioning of our mobile society are reanimated into a visually impressive and cinematic experience. Although all the works are based on a precise structural concept and the filmmakers virtually celebrate their fascination with the perceptual and aesthetic exp…

PESSAC - LIFE IN THE LABORATORY
Wed March 30, 2005, 19:00 h
Architekturzentrum Wien

For Le Crobusier, the Pessac estate was the first opportunity to design architecture for ordinary people. The commission came from Henry Frugès, a sugar manufacturer near Bordeaux, who wanted to have a housing estate built for his workers. "Pessac must be a laboratory" demanded the ambitious client at the time. A laboratory in which new hou…

As She Likes It. Female Performance Video Art
Tue Feb. 22, 2005, 19:00 h
Top-Kino

The programme brings together current works by Austrian female video makers that add contemporary aspects to the tradition of feminine performance art. The representation of the female body and female identity also plays a role in electronic media.

Program
Im Leo (Mirjam Bajtala, A 2003, beta SP, 2 Min.)
strangers (Carola Dertnig, A 2004, Beta SP,…

Imagining the City
Tue Jan. 11, 2005, 19:00 h
Top-Kino

Four filmic works about specific phenomena of urban space. ORTEM examines questions of perception, speed, architecture and memory in the spatial system of the subway. In Worst Case Scenario, John Smith works with over 4000 photo stills that he took on a street corner in Vienna. In May 2nd 2004, 3.30 am we hear a night-time confrontation in a Londo…

Kurt Kren: Structural Films
Tue Dec. 14, 2004, 19:00 h
Top-Kino

What Kurt Kren achieved in his first period of work in short cut montage was many years ahead of the rest of the (film) world in terms of both form and content. Kurt Kren was a pioneer: an avant-gardist in the classical and best sense of the word. A filmmaker who knew how to think in images like few others in this profession and who transformed th…

City – Country – River
Tue Nov. 16, 2004, 19:00 h
Top-Kino

NEWSPAPER ONLY by C. Dertnig and U. Müller deals with daily information overload and the resulting subjective crises.

NIX G ́SCHEITS DRIN by Regina Stefanschitz portrays the daily work of a combative dairymaid without falling into social romanticism.

In CALIFORNIA by Sigmund Steiner, various inhabitants of the town of Thal argue not only ab…

The back of the pictures
Wed Oct. 13, 2004, 19:00 h
Top-Kino

What is a picture? What secrets does it hold, what does it say and how is it created in the first place? Does the truth determine the image or does the image determine the truth? Every cinematic image has a before and after, a beside, behind and also above. Memories consist of these layers, which we try to relate in order to gain an impression - a…

Gold trifft Grill
Tue Sept. 28, 2004, 20:00 h
Top-Kino

Karø Goldt's work complex, minimalist in its formal language, radiates maximum intensity precisely in the reduction of the artistic formal means of expression used. Through cleverly placed cuts and framing, her works have an enormous luminosity. Despite the fact that Goldt's paintings are usually subjected to an extreme process of abstracti…

Mika Taanila
Wed June 2, 2004, 20:00 h
Top-Kino

Two wonderful cinematic portraits in the broadest sense and in between an experimental found-footage adaptation of an unknown physical test arrangement (A Physical Ring).

Mika Taanila's films deal with visionary and utopian ideas from architecture, electronics, genetic and human technology. Futuro is a search for traces of the story of the rise a…

Michaela Schwentner
Fri April 2, 2004, 20:00 h
Top-Kino

Program
grainbits (musik: Pure / A 2001, Beta SP, sw, 6 min. 50 sec)
how do you want m.? (sound: Heinz Ditsch / A 2003, Beta SP,F, 5min.)
#Z (musik: Fennesz/ A2001,BetaSP, F,5min. 36 sec)
transistor (musik: Radian / A 2000, Beta SP, F, 6 min.)
take the bus (sound: general magic / A 2002, Beta SP, sw, 4 min.)
staubsaugerpinkblendton (A 2001, Beta SP, F…