ViennaFilm (1896-1976)

Nino aus Wien - solo live on stage
Homage to the songs of Armin Berg

afterwards

Vienna film 1896-1976
by Ernst Schmidt jr
AT 1977, 16mm, 117 min
Cinematography: Ernst Schmidt Jr, Walter Funda, Günter Pollak, Günter Janicek.
Contributions and actors: Friedrich Achleitner, H. C. Artmann, Joe Berger, Moucle Blackout, VALIE EXPORT, Padhi Frieberger, Ernst Jandl, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Rühm, Hermann Schürrer, Peter Weibel, and many more.

Perceiving the city means exposing oneself to the city. It intervenes and asks for visibility. Wienfilm 1896-1976 by Ernst Schmidt jr. utilises various registers for this purpose. Disruption of communicative unanimity is one method. Joe Berger - man of letters, artist of life, biting ironist - provides the film's chorus. Cinematographic recordings from 90 years collide with each other, enter into contradiction and commentary. There is no image censorship. The film ferments and proliferates. Historically, it ranges from the first images of Vienna by the Lumière company from 1896 to the shots of the police newsreel on the events of February 1934 or a Soviet cameraman after 1945 to image/word donations from friendly filmmakers and writers and cinematic forays into Vienna in the present. (Elisabeth Büttner)

"ma kaun in da gaunzn wöd a wiena sei - nua ned in wien."
(Joe Berger in Wienfilm 1896-1976)