After 25 years of mediation work, sixpackfilm assembles in its collection a rich selection of all genres, represented by more than 1,900 cinematic works, which call out to be shown regularly in various contexts, also in Vienna. One focus of our collection is on the classics of Austrian experimental film, almost all of them are represented. Many of the historical works are now part of the canon of international film or art history and have their permanent place in international cinemas and museums. The reopening of the Metro Kinokulturhaus and the intimate atmosphere of the Eric Pleskow Hall animated sixpackfilm to this long-term cooperation with the Filmarchiv Austria. Short feature films, avant-garde films, animations, cinematic essays, documentaries and much that oscillates between the attributions are to be united in individual programs in the Living Collection sixpackfilm series, not neatly separated according to the usual categorizations. Rather, the focus is on the search for thematic contexts, developments, different ways of looking at things and lines of connection, sometimes also in the context of international filmmaking. Historical and contemporary "classics" meet works by filmmakers who have not yet or no longer received the attention they deserve. Socio-political, social and aesthetic questions interact with purely formal experiments. Radical or actionist performances are combined with surreal stories, commissioned works for trailers or TV with abstract beauties. A lively montage, not a fixation of a history of masterpieces. The unifying element in all the films and videos is their distinctive, idiosyncratic visual grammar. When we offer a personale with works by a filmmaker, a mediated conversation with the artist will introduce their themes and cinematic realization to the audience. Otherwise, the film event will be accompanied by a short introduction every month on a Monday. (Brigitta Burger-Utzer)
Adams Ending by Richard Wilhelmer
Mon Sept. 13, 2021, 20:00 h
MetroKinoKulturhaus

Adam's Ending begins in a nuanced, light-footed way, as a play with allusions. We accompany two couples, first through the city, then on holiday and back again. One of them, Conrad (David Winter) and Carmen (Paula Kalenberg), is only just getting together (and quickly drifting apart again); for the other, Adam (Robert Stadlober) and Anna (Eva-Mari…

Watching & being Watched
Mon April 12, 2021 - Tue April 13, 2021, 11:55 p.m.
sixpackfilm-vimeo-VoD-channel: 12. April 2021, 19:00h bis 13. April 2021, 24:00h

I look in the mirror and see myself. I look through the camera and see someone else. I look at the camera, what do I see? Using these three parameters, the films in this program can be sketched, the central theme is the staging of the self or the other. Kren and Muhr portray the travesty artists Dame Edna and Lucy McEvil while Scheirl / Pürre…

Solo entertainer
Mon March 8, 2021 - Wed March 10, 2021, 11 p.m.
sixpackfilm-vimeo-VoD-channel: 08. März 2021, 19:00h bis 10. März 2021, 24:00h

Film 1:
Severin Fiala, Ulrike Putzer: Elephant Skin, 2004, 34 min, 35mm (eUT)

Elfi is around fifty and shares a small flat with her mother in provincial Lower Austria. After work, she looks after the old woman, who constantly makes requests and complains, but never has a good word for her daughter.
Over the years, Elfi has acquired a protective la…

Animals [online reprise]
Mon Feb. 8, 2021, 19:00 h
sixpackfilm-vimeo-VoD-channel 19:00 – 24:00

The desire for knowledge was a driving force behind Muybridge's (animal) movement studies and thus the birth of chronophotography as a precursor to cinema. Animals have always been protagonists of film, even in its experimental manifestations: as strange creatures, as objects of study and as mirrors for man's own bestiality. A programme of encount…

sixpackfilm-vimeo-channel 19:00 – 24:00 (originally MetroKinoKulturhaus)
Mon Nov. 9, 2020, 19:00 h
sixpackfilm-vimeo-channel 19:00 – 24:00 (ursprünglich MetroKinoKulturhaus)

We watch films by women* and they watch them: Yes, what then?
The "Views by Women*" programme brings together different ways of looking. Here, female* filmmakers attempt to present their personal, unbiased perspective on the world. Many of these views are not based on film conventions. New perspectives are explored. Beauties are exposed. The scenes…

Recordings from the basement
Mon Oct. 5, 2020, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

Recordings from the basement is based on material that Peter Haindl recorded of himself in his flat between 1993 and 1999 and handed over to the filmmaker Rainer Frimmel. These are eloquent testimonies of a man, which he addresses to an imaginary audience in various self-presentations, for posterity, so to speak. From a contemporary perspective, t…

Destruction and Fury
Mon Sept. 7, 2020, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

Repetition of the programme, which was previously only shown online due to Corona, at its original venue in the MetroKino

As a creative means in art, destruction as a live action, as an act of depicting destruction, as an attack on the fine arts or as the integration of found, worn or destroyed objects is still very young. Film art and Expanded C…

sixpackfilm-vimeo-channel 19:00 – 23:00 (originally MetroKinoKulturhaus)
Mon June 8, 2020, 19:00 h
sixpackfilm-vimeo-channel 19:00 – 23:00 (ursprünglich MetroKinoKulturhaus)

Repetition of the programme at MetroKino in autumn 2020 !!!

As a creative means in art, destruction as a live action, as an act of depicting destruction, as an assassination attempt on the fine arts or as the integration of found, worn or destroyed objects is still very young. Film art and Expanded Cinema were considered almost from the very begi…

ONLINE ONLY!!! - Recordings from the basement -> @sixpackfilm-vimeo
Mon May 11, 2020, 19:00 h
sixpackfilm-vimeo-channel 19:00 – 23:00 (ursprünglich MetroKinoKulturhaus)

Recordings from the basement is based on material that Peter Haindl recorded of himself in his flat between 1993 and 1999 and handed over to the filmmaker Rainer Frimmel. These are eloquent testimonies of a man, which he addresses to an imaginary audience in various self-presentations, for posterity, so to speak. From a contemporary perspective, t…

ONLINE ONLY!!! Young Cinema by Women* (Reprise) - ->> @ sixpackfilm-vimeo
Wed April 15, 2020, 19:00 h
sixpackfilm-vimeo-channel 19:00 – 23:00 (ursprünglich MetroKinoKulturhaus)

In the last two years, young female directors in particular have attracted attention with exciting works. They present female characters in their cinematic narratives who act and react according to their generation and for whom gender norms and cultural attributions are at most worth questioning or melancholy contemplation. Without larmoyance and …