Tag "Austria"
VIS SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: ALEXANDRE LAROSE
Born in 1978, the Canadian experimental filmmaker Alexandre Larose did not get into film until his twenties, when he had already received a graduate degree in engineering. Directors who impressed him in his youth ‒ Steven Spielberg and Wes Craven
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VIS SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: TAKASHI MAKINO
Japanese experimental filmmaker Takashi Makino, born in 1978 in Tokyo, has made 35 films in his 20-year career. He was one of the special guests in the Spotlight section of the 14th edition of Vienna Shorts. Nisimazine met the director
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VIS SPOTLIGHT FEATURE: JACQUELINE LENTZOU
Greek filmmaker Jacqueline Lentzou was one of the VIS Spotlight artists at the festival’s 14th edition. At the moment, Lentzou’s last two films, Fox and Hiwa are simultaneously going around the festival circuit, the former after its premiere at Locarno
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VIS FICTION & DOCUMENTARY: Words Don’t Come Easy
„My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them“ In the last competition Fiction & Documentary programme block of this year’s VIS, titled “Words Don’t Come Easy”, we had the chance to enjoy an essayistic documentary film
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VIS AWARDS GO TO THE RABBIT HUNT, I’M NOT FROM HERE, EVERYTHING
The biggest winner of this year’s Vienna Shorts Festival (Jun 1-6) was Peter Bresnan’s The Rabbit Hunt, which received two main prizes – the Vienna Shorts Film Award for the Fiction & Documentary programme, and the Jury Prize for best
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VIS NATIONAL COMPETITION: Image/Worlds
The final block of shorts for the VIS national competition programme, “Image/Worlds”, consisted of a series of humorous reflections on art and contemporary society. Apart from Lukas Marxt, the man behind the six-minute homage to a Californian desert used in
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VIS NATIONAL COMPETITION: Future/Music
The fourth day of VIS brought us five films in the National Competition programme titled “Future/Music”. The first two films, O! Fortuna I-VI by Karin Berger and Morsen – Federspiel by Simon Spitzer and Jessyca R. Hauser were of the
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VIS FICTION & DOCUMENTARY: The Way to Paradise
“The Way to Paradise” block of the Fiction & Documentary competition, screened on June 4, dealt with two families, a village and a band of girls looking for their own versions of paradise. The opening film of the block had
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VIS ANIMATION AVANTGARDE: The Subject
“You can only see it by looking and looking and looking…” On June 3, the 2017 VIS Animation Avantgarde programme block titled “The Subject” offered us a total of 11 short films. The programme booklet of the festival promised a
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VIS ANIMATION AVANTGARDE: The World
The World block of Animation Avantgarde started of with the Mexican film Y. by Adrian Regnier Chavez, and The Fifth Wall by the Austrian duo Peter Kutin and Florian Kindlinger followed. Next were the French artist Boris Labbe’s Orogenesis and
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