sixpackfilm @ Diagonale 2025
On Thursday, March 27, the Diagonale opens in Graz. sixpackfilm is extremely happy to be represented again in 2025 with a broad variety of great new and historical works in the main and special programs of the festival of Austrian film.
We'll be celebrating the world premieres of Sugarland, the feature film debut by Isabella Brunäcker, in competition for the Grand Diagonal Prize – a road movie that sends two seekers on a journey together (photo), and of the following short films: Everyone Deserves a Slice of the Pie by Sasha Pirker, Diamond & Narcissus - الماس و نرگس by Barbara Wolfram, lll by Josephine Ahnelt, The Prologue by Marzieh Emadi & Sina Saada, The Many Ways to Avert One's Eyes by Eszter Katalin and White Ribbons by Michael Heindl.
Some of them have already won awards at international festivals and can now be seen in Austria for the first time: 2551.03 - The End by Norbert Pfaffenbichler, Milena Fina on the Phone by Albert Sackl, Becoming Outline by Miriam Bajtala, Out of Sight/ Bürglkopf by Lisa Polster, È A QUESTO PUNTO CHE NASCE IL BISOGNO DI FARE STORIA by Constanze Ruhm, The Life of Sean DeLear by Markus Zizenbacher, The Big Day/ Schützenfest by Lennart Hüper & Lennart Miketta, and What the Night speaks - a Story by veteran avantgarde filmmaker Hans Scheugl.
And we are pleased no less that new films by Helin Çelik, Josef Dabernig, Karin Fisslthaler, Michaela Grill & Karl Lemieux, Friedl vom Gröller, Alexander Horwath, Johann Lurf & Christina Jauernik, Christiana Perschon, Ursula Pürrer & Ashley Hans Scheirl, Thomas Renoldner, Lukas Valenta Rinner and Billy Roisz will now also be shown on the big screen in Graz following their (inter)national festival appearances.
Ivette Löcker, whose most recent work Our Time Will Come is also celebrating its Austrian premiere in the Diagonale Competition following its premiere at the Berlinale Forum, has a Position dedicated to her this year: this retrospective comprises three feature-length and three short works by the award-winning documentary filmmaker.
As the winner of the Diagonale Innovative Film 2024 award, Simona Obholzer not only designed this year's festival trailer The Lawn is the Most Pleasant Sight in the Scenery, but also an exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz, Pleasing to the eye, soft on the feet, which opens on Friday, March 28 and runs until April 21.
Katharina Copony is greatly missed, in Graz this year as well. Diagonale will be showing At the Barracks (2019), a cinematic reflection on her own family history, and her last published short film Tu Harimau (That's the Tiger) from 2021 in remembrance of the filmmaker who sadly passed last fall.
INDEX Edition #53: Release und Präsentation – Moucle Blackout. Filme 1969-1998
Der 53. Release der INDEX Edition ist dem filmischen Werk von Moucle Blackout (Christiane Adrian-Engländer, geb. 1935 in Prag, lebt in Wien) gewidmet. Nach Claus Homschaks und Elfriede Jelineks Ramsau am Dachstein ist es die zweite Auskopplung in neuem Format: als Buchpublikation mit Filmdownload. Kürzlich hat das Belvedere drei Filme von Moucle Blackout für seine Sammlung erworben. Aus gegebenem Anlass wird die Publikation MOUCLE BLACKOUT. Filme 1969 – 1998. Es war eine Herausforderung, diesem Namen gerecht zu werden* im Rahmen eines Sonderscreenings im Belvedere 21 / Blickle Kino präsentiert.
Berlinale 2025: World Premieres and Reprises
While Ivette Löcker's latest documentary film Our Time Will Come will celebrate its world premiere Berlinale Forum 2025, Uscita di Sicurezza by Friedl vom Gröller has been invited to the Critics' Week. We are also delighted about a number of reprises: CRASH SITE by Constanze Ruhm will be shown again in the Forum Expanded anniversary programme, as will Happy Doom by Billy Roisz in the Berlinale Shorts Revisited. We are very much looking forward to it!
sixpackfilm @ Int. Film Festival Rotterdam + Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis 2025
Enthustiastically we like to share the fantastic news about the selections of the upcoming Rotterdam International Film Festival 2025 and Saarbrücken Max Ophüls Preis 2025.
Int. Film Festival Rotterdam 2025
The Garden of Electric Delights (Billy Roisz) – World premiere Tiger Shorts Awards Competition
Am Telefon Milena Fina (Albert Sackl) – World premiere, Short and mid-length
Ruletista (Lukas Valenta Rinner) – International premiere, Short and mid-length
COMMUTE (Henry Hills) – International premiere, Short and mid-length
2551.91 The End (Norbert Pfaffenbichler) – World premiere, Cinema Regained
Was die Nacht spricht – Eine Erzählung (Hans Scheugl) – International premiere of the re-edit, Cinema Regained
SATURN RETURN (Daniela Zahlner) – Cinema Regained
À mes côtés (Eric Weglehner) – Educational program
Surface Séance (Michael Heindl) – Educational program
Afterlives (Michael Heindl) – Educational program
2020 (Friedl vom Gröller) – DINAMO – Embodiment
shifting bodies to fluid fiction (Daniela Guttmann) – DINAMO – Disembodiment
Filmfestival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken
Bürglkopf (Lisa Polster) – Weltpremiere, International Competition
The Life of Sean DeLear (Markus Zizenbacher) – Deutschlandpremiere, International Competition
Sparschwein (Christoph Schwarz) – Watchlist
Those Next To Us (Bernhard Hetzenauer) – Diskurze
Tako Tsubo (Eva Pedroza, Fanny Sorgo) – Diskurze
Susi Jirkuff receives the Cultural Prize of Upper Austria in the category of Filmart
Congratulations to Susi Jirkuff, who has been awarded this year's Upper Austrian Culture Prize in the category film !
Katharina Copony 1972-2024
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to Katharina Copony, who died far too early these days. Her legacy is her documentary films, in which she lives on in her view of the small gestures and quiet moments of her protagonists. We will never forget her alert mind, her empathetic participation in her surroundings and in world affairs, and her mercilessly infectious laugh. Farewell Kathy
YES & NO: Austrian Artist Film @ ICA London
To celebrate the release of the 13th edition of YES & NO magazine — YES & NO Kino+Film Austria — which sheds light on more than one hundred years of Austrian cinema and film, YES & NO presents a two-part programme in partnership with the ICA and sixpackfilm.
YES & NO: Austrian Artist Film @ ICA LondonNovember 5 and 12, 2024
Curated by sixpackfilm’s Dietmar Schwärzler, these programmes showcase some of the most iconic and groundbreaking Austrian avant-garde films. From the trailblazing experimental paragons of the mid to late 20th century to the most vital and innovative talents working today, these films reveal why Vienna remains a global centre for the avant-garde.
Programme One will also include insights from a panel of Vienna-based film artists in attendance. As legendary Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky quotes in the introduction to the book, Film Unframed, "There must be something in the water…"
This YES & NO Project has been made possible with the support of the Austrian Film Institute, in collaboration with sixpackfilm, Vienna, and the kind participation of the Austrian Cultural Forum London.
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Programme 1
Tuesday, November 5, 7pm
Arnulf Rainer – Peter Kubelka / 1960, 7 min
10/65 Selbstverstümmelung – Kurt Kren / 1965, 5 min
Die Geburt Der Venus – Moucle Blackout / 1970-72, 5 min
Kugelkopf – Mara Mattuschka / 1985, 6 min
Heimkehr 1941/1996 – Institut für Evidenzwissenschaft / 1996, 5 min
Conference. Notes on Film 05 – Norbert Pfaffenbichler / 2011, 8 min
Outer Space – Peter Tscherkassky / 1999, 10 min
Fast Film – Virgil Widrich / 2003, 14 min
Maria Lassnig Kantate – Maria Lassnig, Hubert Sielecki / 1992, 8 min
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Programme 2
Tuesday, November 12, 7pm
Adebar – Peter Kubelka / 1957, 1 min 30
Schwechater – Peter Kubelka / 1958, 2 min
Peter Kubelka and Jonas Mekas – Friedl vom Gröller / 1994, 3 min
Astor Place – Eve Heller / 1997, 10 min
Spucken – Friedl vom Gröller / 2000, 2 min
Höhenrausch – Siegfried A. Fruhauf / 1999, 4 min
37/78 Tree Again – Kurt Kren / 1978, 4 min
NYC-RGB – Viktoria Schmid / 2023, 7 min
Resonance – Katharina Bayer / 2024, 9 min
Cavalcade – Johann Lurf / 2019, 5 min
Train Again – Peter Tscherkassky / 2021, 20 min
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Docs rock !
Several of our current documentaries, including the first features films by Miriam Bajtala, Lukas Marxt & Vanja Smiljanic, Maria Lisa Pichler & Lukas Schöffel. Katrin Schlösser and Christoph Schwarz will celebrate their international or world premieres at festivals in Hof, Leipzig, Amsterdam, Jihlava, Duisburg or Belfort in the coming weeks.
Miriam Bajtala: Becoming Outline: Ji.lava Doc Film Fest (WP)
Lukas Marxt & Vanjy Smilljanic: AMONGST THE PALMS THE BOMB: DOK Leipzig (IP)
Heidrun Holzfeind: An Octopus destroyed the Moon: DOK Leipzig (WP)
Katrin Schlösser: When I Went to Visit the Boys: Hofer Filmtage (IP)
Christoph Schwarz: Piggy Bank: Hofer Filmtage (IP)
Maria Lisa Pichler & Lukas Schöffel: Maine Ma Duc - Tomorrow I leave: Duisburger Filmwoche (IP)
Stefania Smolkina: Avec la 4e Division Marocaine de Montagne: Duisburger Filmwoche
Lidija Rukije Kumpas: Gül: Entrevues Belfort
sixpackfilm premieres @ Viennale 2024
We are extremely proud to announce eight world premieres and two Austrian premieres at this year’s Viennale (October 19–27) as well the program "Monography / Viennale", spotlighting the vibrant work of Colectivo Los Ingrávidos.
Nine short films from the recent sixpackfilm catalogue will be presented at this year's Viennale, including Johann Lurf's and Christina Jauernik's Revolving Rounds, which will have its Austrian premiere after screenings in Locarno, at the Toronto IFF/Wavelength, the New York Film Festival and recently at 25fps in Zagreb. We are also looking forward to premieres by Lukas Valenta Rinner, Friedl vom Gröller, Henry Hills, Ursula Pürrer, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Katharina Bayer, Jan Soldat and Helin Çelik.
We especially like to draw your attention to the world premiere of the new documentary feature by Lukas Marxt and Vanja Smiljanić: AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB, or: Looking for reflections in the toxic field of plenty, which, following Imperial Valley and other short works by Marxt, once again deals with a specific, extremely historical region that also offers disturbing views of the global future.
Find links to all films & screening dates below.
AMONG THE PALMS THE BOMB, or: Looking for reflections in the toxic field of plenty
AT/DE 2024, 85min
by Lukas Marxt & Vanja Smiljanić
Oct 25, Stadtkino i. Künstlerhaus, 5.45 pm
Oct 26, Filmmuseum, 1.30 pm
Resonance
AT/DE/CH 2024, 9min by Katharina Bayer
Oct 28, Filmmuseum, 4pm
Oct 29, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal, 6pm
HABĀ
AT/ES 2024, 23min by Helin Çelik
Oct 23, Filmmuseum, 4pm
Oct 24, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal, 6pm
Uscita di Sicurezza
(Emergency Exit)
AT 2024, 4min by Friedl vom Gröller
Oct 19, Filmmuseum, 7.15pm
Oct 20, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal, 4pm
Jelena
AT 2024, 3min by Friedl vom Gröller
Oct 19, Filmmuseum, 7.15pm
Oct 20, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal, 4pm
Revolving Rounds (3D)
AT 2024, 11min by Johann Lurf, Christina Jauernik
Oct 26, Filmmuseum, 11am
Oct 28, Filmmuseum, 4pm
GLEICHZEITIG NACKT
(SIMULTANEOUSLY NAKED)
AT 2024, 3min by Ursula Pürrer & Ashley Hans Scheirl
Oct 19, Filmmuseum, 7.15pm
Oct 20, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal, 4pm
Ruletista
AT 2024, 20min by Lukas Valenta Rinner
Oct 22, Filmmuseum, 4pm
Oct 23, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal, 6pm
Die schöne Tote
(Beautiful Dead Woman)
AT/DE 2024, 7min by Jan Soldat
Oct 22, Filmmuseum, 4pm
Oct 23, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal, 6pm
COMMUTE
AT/US 2024, 9min by Henry Hills
Oct 28, Filmmuseum, 4pm
Oct 29, Metro, Eric Pleskow Saal, 6pm
Austrian Art Award 2024
Filmmaker Karin Berger is awarded the Austrian Art Award for Film by the Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport, in recognition of her work to date.
From the jury's statement: Karin Berger is a pioneer in a present in which the disappearance of the generation that experienced the Nazi era is a painful fact. She shapes feminist art practice, is a talented interviewer and recognized teacher. Her work shows that history is never closed and that the cinematic recording of the unnoticed shapes the future.
We can only agree with this – and in this context also point to Wankostättn, her most recent work to date. Our warmest congratulations!
