Brno16 - Art Makes Us Stronger
Gerald Weber was invited to curate a program of Austrian Shorts on this year´s festival’s main topic at Brno16 (Oct 10-15): Art Makes Us Stronger. With films by Robert Gambrinus, Gabriele Mathes, Mirjam Bajtala, Thomas Renoldner a.o. -> more on the festival site
Kinostart von UN SOLO COLORE von Joerg Burger
Joerg Burgers jüngster Dokumentarfilm UN SOLO COLORE über den kleine calabrischen Ort Camini, der sich in einem sehr von den anderen Gemeinden in der Region unterscheidet: Während die Europäische Gemeinschaft über eine menschenwürdige Unterbringung der zur Migration gezwungenen Menschen tatenlos diskutiert, sieht man in Camini die Aufnahme von Migranten als Chance.
ab 16.9. 2016 in den österreichischen Kinos. Für Details über Starts und Sonderveranstaltungen besuchen Sie die FB-Seite des Films
CINEMA FUTURE by Michael Palm celebrates premiere @ Venice
sixpackfilm is proud to announce the world premiere of the new outstanding documentary Cinema Future by Michael Palm at the 73. Venice Film Festival. Michael Palm presents his long awaited essay about the future of film, archives and cinema on Friday 2nd at Sala Casino at 5 pm. Read about the film
BREAKING GROUND @ Tel Aviv & Jerusalem
Five programs of the large retrospective on the history of Austrian avant-garde cinema will make station in Israel soon. Under the title BREAKING GROUND on August 31st in the Cinemathek Tel Aviv, and on September 1st in the Cinemathek Jerusalem
SONNENFLECKEN von Barbara Albert am 19.August in ARTE-TV
Barbara Alberts betörender Kurzfilm Sonnenflecken aus dem Jahr 1998 wird am Freitag, den 19.August in der Reihe Kurzschluss des Kultursenders ARTE-TV ausgestrahlt. Gemeinsam mit einem Kurzportrait der Regisseurin anläßlich der Dreharbeiten zu ihrem aktuellen Spielfilm “LICHT” (Geyrhalter Production)
INDEX-DVD
NEW RELEASES !!!!
INDEX-DVD Nr.46: DÓRA MAURER – Thinking in Proportions
Dóra Maurer once said that the theme central to her work is “movement in respect to the conceptual and factual effects of displacement”. And indeed, her extensive oeuvre produced since the end of the 1960s consistently documents movement and displacement, specifically with regard to systematics and structurally.
INDEX-DVD Nr.45: GUSTAV DEUTSCH – Not Home. Picturing the Foreign
Gustav Deutsch´s remarkable ´Cinema of Places´, including classics like “Eyewitnesses in Foreign Countries” as well as amazing miniatures from the last decade: Tiny masterpieces of observation!
Watch out for it !
FID 2016 : Award & Honorable Mention for Selma Doborac
After Diagonale (Best Sounddesign Documentary) and Crossing Europe Linz (Local Artist Award) Selma Doborac´s debut film Those Shocking Shaking Days has received two further recognitions at it´s international premiere at FID-Marseille, the Prix George de Beauregard International as well as a Mention Spéciale by the jury of the First-Film-competition. Congratulations !
sixpackfilm @ FID-Marseille 2016
Joyous News: Those Shocking Shaking Days, Selma Doborac´s awarded Essayfilm about the question of the “Representation of War” will celebrate it’s international premiere at upcoming FID-Marseille (July 12-18,2016) within the international competition.
Further sixpack-titles in the official selection of FID 2016: SELF by Claudia Larcher, the long time portrait Max Turnheim by Friedl von Gröller as well as These Walls were built by Donald Judd by Sasha Pirker.
sixpackfilm @ Karlovy Vary IFF 2016
We are happy about the selection of various sixpack-films to the upcoming International Film Festival Karlovy Vary (1.-9.7.2016): Lampedusa by Peter Schreiner, recently awarded in Belgrade and at the Vatikan Film Festival, shows up in the Imagina-Sektion, like Vintage Print (Siegfried Fruhauf) as well as In, Over & Out (Sebastian Brameshuber). Luz Olivares Capelle´s Forest of Echoes will be screened as part of Future Frames: Ten New Filmmakers to Follow – Watch out for it !
Awards at Chicago Underground Film Fest
… again good festival news ! Reknown Chicago Underground Film Festival gives the Prize for Best Photography to Vintage Print by Siegfried Fruhauf, Joerg Burger´s beautiful Focus on Infinity received an Honorable Mention for “astounding cinematography and locations” – Congratulationen to Joerg and Siegfried !
