"BEYOND CINEMA. Austrian Underground Film from the 1960s"
Titled BEYOND CINEMA. Austrian Underground Film from the 1960s Alternative Film & Videofestival Belgrade will present between 12.-16.Dezember 2018 a filmprogram curated by Gerald Weber along the festival focus on COLLECTIVism.
Including works by VALIE EXPORT, Kurt Kren, Hans Scheugl, Peter Weibel, Ernst Schmidt jr a.o.
Program details & schedule
Sabine Marte mit der "Gloriette" ausgezeichnet
Wir gratulieren Sabine Marte zur Gloriette, erstmals vergeben von FC GLORIA – Frauen Vernetzung Film für herausragende Leistungen von Frauen in der Filmbranche. Gestiftet von Verband Filmregie Österreich • VdFS – Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden und The Grand Post
Zu den weiteren Preisträgerinnen und zum Jurystatement
Foto: Elsa Okazaki
OUSTANDING ARTIST AWARD 2018 for Katrina Daschner
This year´s OUTSTANDING ARTIST AWARD für Experimentalfilm by the Art Section of the Austrian Federal Chancellery goes to Katrina Daschner!
Congratulations to Katrina and all award winners!
Foto: Daniel Hoesl, Katrina Daschner, Verena Dengler
Awards ! Awards ! Awards !
Several of sixpackfilm-distributed shorts collected a number of awards within the last week:
La sombra de un Dios by Bernhard Hetzenauer received another major award at a mexican festival: Best Short Documentary at International Filmfestival in San Luís Potosí,
Gouvernment House by Herwig Weiser was given the Grand Prix Riga Short by the jury of Riga Film Festival,
Lukas Marxt gained further recognition for his Imperial Valley with Jury Main Awards at Gijón International Film Festival and at Cologne Shortfilmfest.
Last not least Animistica by Nikki Schuster and WHERE DO WE GO by Siegfried Fruhauf received Best Sound plus Audience Award and Best Experimental Animation at the Vienna Two Days Animation Festival.
Cordial congratulations to all of the artists !
Friedl Kubelka Vom Gröller: "Paris Épisodes" at Centre Pompidou
Book release presentation, filmprogram and talk: on dec 5th 2018 “Friedl vom Gröller” will show her “Paris Movies” at the Centre Pompidou, accompanied by a talk with Dietmar Schwärzler from sixpackfilm to present the latest INDEX-DVD publication One is not enough about photographer and filmmaker “Friedl Kubelka vom Gröller”.
the program at Centre Pompidou
Book + DVD: ONE IS NOT ENOUGH at INDEX-DVD
"A ★ over Spain"
After a sensational first festival year, Johann Lurf´s extraordinary compilation film ★ is recently touring spanish festivals and cinematheques – often accompanied by a selection of Lurf´s experimental shorts. After Gijón Festival the program makes stop at the Filmoteca de Galicia in A Coruña, at Filmoteca de València, during the Muestra de Cine on Lanzarote and last not least earyl next year at Cineteca de Madrid.
KURT KREN retrospectives in Italy and Czech Republic
Titled “Sorry, it had to be done”, Milano´s Filmmaker Festival presents a complete retrospective of Kurt Kren´s Ouevre from november 17th in the recently restaured digital version while PAF – Festival of Film Animation and Contemporary Art in Olomouc will show the fims from their original 16mm copies. Two fantastic occasions to see and experience the beauty of Kren´s specific shooting and editing techniques and his unique aesthetics.
Retrospective Björn Kämmerer in Moscow
Organized by Moscow Experimental Film Festival Mediaartist Björn Kämmerer shows his films on December 6th at Moscow´s NIKFI (Cine-Photo Research and Development Institute)
Details
sixpackfilm @ VIENNALE 2018
We are very happy to announce the Austrian premiere of the following films at upcoming Viennale 2018:
Nils Olger – AN IRON BOX
Christiana Perschon – SHE IS THE OTHER GAZE
Norbert Pfaffenbichler – Invest in Failure
Nikki Schuster – animistica
Josef Dabernig – Gertrud & Tiederich
Lotte Schreiber – Sabaudia
Friedl vom Gröller – Paris Episodes
Albert Sackl – stiffness 1-3 / 7
Siegfried A. Fruhauf – Water and Clearing
Virgil Widrich – Light Matter
Gudrun Krebitz – The Magical Dimension
Alle Details zu den Spielzeiten entnehmen Sie bitte der VIENNALE 2018-Seite
exact screenings dates best to find at VIENNALE 2018-site
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUTRY IN THE WORLD by Zelimir Zilnik celebrates it's WORLD PREMIERE at DocLisboa !
Zelimir Zilnik, major protagonist of yugoslavian “Black Wave”, has shot his last movie in Austria. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL COUTRY IN THE WORLD will celebrate it’s WORLD PREMIERE at DocLisboa and then travel right on to various international film festivals. Early december it will be shown at the Austrian Filmmuseum (details coming)
