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)
City Symphonies
Mon Feb. 11, 2019, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

Urban architecture and its special character: Lotte Schreiber's filmic homage to a 1960s concrete apartment block in Trieste, underscored by Stefan Nemeth's soundtrack. Dimitri Venkov shows examples from three important periods of Moscow's monumental architecture: Stalin's time, brutalist modernism and today's glass façades. besenbahn creat…

You don't kiss Leopards
Mon Jan. 14, 2019, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

The programme with the title of Howard Hawks' comedy is dedicated to humour in artistic film. Carola Dertnig presents the preconception of women as incompetent car drivers in a way that is ready for the scrapheap. Rauchensteiner deconstructs Rilke's autumn poem in recitative and Hund und Horn observe three mice in a model house made of edible mate…

Crossing borders
Mon Dec. 10, 2018, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

The conflict between Israel and Palestine is reduced to absurdity in The Men Behind the Wall with the help of the dating app Tinder. Inés Moldavsky uses it to contact men on the other side of the wall, crossing spatial, political and gender-specific borders in the process. Until Hungary's membership, one of Europe's Schengen borders was the…

Recycling Film History
Mon Nov. 12, 2018, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

The Phoenix Tapes were commissioned for the exhibition "Notorious: Alfried Hitchcock and Contemporary Art" at the Oxford Museum of Modern Art. Girardet and Müller combine recurring motifs from forty Hitchcock films and create a surreal resonance chamber of his patterns of suspense in the montage. Stefan Zlamal decouples the dialogues of two d…

KURT KREN. LORD OF THE FRAMES (1929 –1998)
Mon Oct. 8, 2018, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

Kurt Kren's very first film in 1957 - the numbers in the film title indicate the number and year of production - is characterised by a serial montage technique with which Kren, together with Peter Kubelka, anticipated the direction later referred to as "structural film" in the USA. Equally pioneering are his precise scores from the following years…

A waste of film! Ernst Schmidt jr.
Mon June 4, 2018, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

Ernst Schmidt jr. was incorruptible all his life. A companion to VALIE EXPORT, Peter Weibel, and Kurt Kren, he was the cofounder of the Austrian Filmmakers Coop and one of the most important figures of Expanded Cinema in the 1960s and ’70s. He published the seminal book Eine Subgeschichte des Films (A Subhistory of Film) together with Hans S…

Feedback
Mon May 7, 2018, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

Since the political upheaval in Ukraine, countless Lenin monuments have been dismantled. In 2015, Anna Jermolaewa travelled through the country to document the architectural voids and interview passers-by. This was followed by two commissioned works that Sasha Pirker realised on the occasion of an exhibition on Walter Pichler's work at the Museum …

Ghosts, Ghosts
Mon April 9, 2018, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

In these three films, places and spaces are animated by ghostly apparitions, reality and the fantastic merge. Ben Pointeker presents another of his mysterious films, the beauty of whose visual composition further intensifies the emotional effect already hinted at. In a Moscow residential complex, formerly built for Stalinist functionaries, Herwig …

handbikemovie
Mon March 5, 2018, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

Martin Bruch travelled thousands of kilometres for Handbikemovie to film 56 shots solely from the subjective viewpoint of the helmet camera with original sound or music. His multiple sclerosis made it necessary for him to travel independently on this special three-wheeled vehicle, but it was also a daring and fun adventure. The result is an "exper…

In Person: Lukas Marxt
Mon Feb. 5, 2018, 19:00 h
Metro Kinokulturhaus

The young career of Lukas Marxt (*1983) is remarkable: both because of the recognition he has received in the film and exhibition context and because of his artistic output and the single-minded curiosity with which he approaches his projects. Marxt seeks out inhospitable, remote landscapes and extreme weather conditions to explore the media impac…