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 The american writer Holly Martins visits 1949 the austrian capital Vienna devasted from the World War II. He wants to met his friend Harry Lime, but Lime dies on a mysterious car accident just before they met. |
 In WE FEED THE WORLD, Austrian filmmaker Erwin Wagenhofer traces the origins of the food we eat. A film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow | ||
 The american writer Holly Martins visits 1949 the austrian capital Vienna devasted from the World War II. He wants to met his friend Harry Lime, but Lime dies on a mysterious car accident just before they met. |
 The protagonist of the film has only one passion. The perfect sound of a piano. | ||
 The cinema of Hollywood is a cinema of exclusion, reduction and denial, a cinema of repression. There is always something behind that which is being represented, which was not represented. |
 The american writer Holly Martins visits 1949 the austrian capital Vienna devasted from the World War II. He wants to met his friend Harry Lime, but Lime dies on a mysterious car accident just before they met. | ||
 An old man lives alone in a remote farmhouse in Lower Austria. An individualistic approach to images and sound shapes this experimental Heimatfilm. |
 The film follows the money we are deposing on our bank. We will visit fond managers, CEO's, fiscal paradisesand begin to understand how the global financial system is working everyday. | ||
 The protagonist of the film has only one passion. The perfect sound of a piano. |
 During the sixties, the Nile Perch, a voracious predator, was introduced into Lake Victoria, in Tanzania, as a scientific experiment. Since then, practically all the lake’s indigenous fish have been wiped out. | ||
 Welcome to the world of industrial food production and high-tech farming! To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe. | |||
 Alex wants to make a hold-up to get out of his life as driver. His friend and prostitute Tamara helps him. However, the hold-up goes wrong and changes their life completely. |
 At the end of the middle age, on the threshold of the new time, two friends turn out to be at the mercy of the powerful church. Georg, the prior, tries to withstand the pressure of the church. | ||
 The settlement of Pripyat is five kilometers from the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Its population numbered 50,000 until 1986. Today, Pripyat is a heavily guarded and highly contaminated ghost town in the center of the radioactive zone. |
 Actress Hedy Lamarr was considered by the MGM-tycoon Louis B. Mayer to be “the most beautiful woman of the century”. However, he couldn’t guess that the Hollywood film star, would pave wireless communications with her invention. | ||
 Analysis of the complexities of human language within the smallest possible space: rationally positioned on an empty stage, two interpreters in a cabin translate assertions. |
 Actress Hedy Lamarr was considered by the MGM-tycoon Louis B. Mayer to be “the most beautiful woman of the century”. However, he couldn’t guess that the Hollywood film star, would pave wireless communications with her invention. 2 DVD with Film EXTASE. | ||
 During the sixties, the Nile Perch, a voracious predator, was introduced into Lake Victoria, in Tanzania, as a scientific experiment. Since then, practically all the lake’s indigenous fish have been wiped out. |
 Six different stories in the hottest weekend of the year. The air is completely hot and humid, it's hard to breathe in the no- man's land between highways, supermarkets and a sea of one-family houses on the edge of Vienna. | ||
 The year 2000, elsewhere. 12 months. 12 episodes. Weeks, days, single moments of different ways of life. Tradition and change. People of different cultural and geographical background. A film about their life. |
 Austrian artist Valie Export has been an influential and provocative figure on the international art scene for over three decades. Her works achieve a compelling fusion of the visceral and the conceptual. | ||
 It is, in a word, glorious... what I feel is the inherent power and mystery of such material, the arrangement of these images and sounds into a definition of cinema constitutes one of the greatest pedagogic films I have seen... |
 Anna, an artist, is obsessed with the invasion of alien doubles bent on total destruction. Her schizophrenia is reflected in the juxtapositions of long movie camera takes with violently edited montages. | ||
 The american writer Holly Martins visits 1949 the austrian capital Vienna devasted from the World War II. He wants to met his friend Harry Lime, but Lime dies on a mysterious car accident just before they met. | |||
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Paradies: Liebe Ulrich Seidl
On Kenya’s beaches they are known as "sugar mamas": European women who seek out African boys selling love to earn a living. |
 In this broad sampling of works, Bulgarian-born, Vienna-based Mara Mattuschka playfully moves through motherhood to monster flicks where an alien, out on the town, wreaks havoc of epic proportions. | ||
 Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. One day, Anne has an attack. |
 Lisl Ponger´s photographic and cinematic work investigates the circumstances of places and their territorial occupation by the camera, the acquisation of images, the function of photographic and cinematic representation, and the presentation of cultural v | ||
 GOOD NEWS is about modern slaves, about present-day inspectors, about little animals, small apartments, small people, and their little stories, about insanity of normality in Austria |
 Marie has a very special relationship to the house in which she lives with her extended family: it speaks to her and reacts like a human being. | ||
 In Venezuela, a profound social transformation has been underway since Hugo Chávez's governmental takeover in 1998. It concerns a broad process of self organization, from which has developed a progressive constitution. |
 In Oliver Ressler´s works art becomes a political position. Video on the first anti-globalization manifestation in Austria and a video on the italian movement of the Disobbedienti. | ||
![[ma] trilogy](cover80/matrilogy.jpg) With his sensitive awareness, Neuwirth, got hold of dream-like pictures, which in his words, he allows to clatter, make loud noises, hum, thunder and sing. |
 Born in Lucerne, Switzerland, Ernst Schurtenberger (1931–2006) was a painter, draughtsman, horserider and collector all in one. From the early seventies onwards, he lived in isolation in the provincial Waldviertel area of Austria. | ||
 Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has an attack. | |||
 At the end of the middle age, on the threshold of the new time, two friends turn out to be at the mercy of the powerful church. Georg, the prior, tries to withstand the pressure of the church. |
 What does it mean to recognize a documentary gesture in Kren´s films? What is being documented? | ||
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Museum Hours Jem Cohen
When a Vienna museum guard befriends an enigmatic visitor, the grand Kunsthistorisches Museum becomes a mysterious crossroads which sparks the exploration of their lives, the city and the ways art reflects and shapes the world. |
Glanz des Tages Rainer Frimmel , Tizza Covi
Philipp Hochmair is a young and successful actor working for the most important theaters in Vienna and Hamburg. He spends his time learning new texts, rehearsing and performing, gradually losing touch with everyday reality. | ||
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At the end of the middle age, on the threshold of the new time, two friends turn out to be at the mercy of the powerful church. Georg, the prior, tries to withstand the pressure of the church. |
