Austria Movies

Contours in constant transformation, a movement through space. Gentle changes of location that colorfully merge into one another turn out to be a jour...

In magnificent shots of animals and plants from amateur films, Sara Piñeros discovers a possible escape from herself. Rather than looking at the found...

The architectural theorist Friedrich Kiesler designed a site for film projection that directs focus to the screen, allowing everything around it to be...

One often reads that films have explosive power. This also applies to Tomash Schoiswohl’s analysis of the demolition of social housing in Linz, St. Lo...

They get all dressed up. The Heckis play some pop—but in the end they can’t pretend to be who they’re not. A humorous digression of the Noise Appeal w...

Sasha Pirker approaches the Viennese artist Heinz Frank through a playful, cinematic-architectural exploration of his extravagant home. In doing so, s...

White middle-class hipsters dress up as hippies. Their performance of freedom meshes with Christian iconography as a voice ponders an upstanding life....

On their road trip through the U.S., Eva Seiler and Johanna Tinzl search for a possible future. Between Detroit, stories of a member of the Navajo Nat...

Ida strolls down the Donaukanal in Biedermeier dresses and hip sunglasses. At the age of fourty-four, she leaves behind her life as a housewife to fol...

Kervin Saint Pere opens the archive’s fine wooden drawer to search for the word “Kanake.” He views it as not only a bygone construct of German colonia...

Whether in everyday life, on holiday, or during so-called leisure time: working hands that uncover, cover, wash, stroke, feed, and wipe are everywhere...

With lots of empathy, at the beach for dogs on Vienna’s Donauinsel, Benita Buhl discovers cinema as a possibility to start up conversations with peopl...

Handstands on the ping pong table, selfies while skating: the young people of Hasenleiten use the housing estate’s park around the clock. And it’s als...

The last masters of the branch work in one of Austria’s final remaining sewing and textile factories. Here, the tranquil camera blends into daily even...

Marko Doringer’s life is marked by recurring depressions. The filmmaker asks what expectations he wants to and can have of happiness under these circu...

To stop the planned road construction in the Lobau nature reserve, activists form resistance that goes far beyond the demands for a shift to sustainab...

My friends are the birds

Four 13 years old hang out on a railway bridge, going around in circles. Instead of talking things through, they concentrate on their own little pecki...

A frame-by-frame animated, drawn invitation to participate in a game of imagination. It is an attempt, to discover the blurred lines between dreaming...

"TOAD2: Modern Person" is the first album by Toad. They revisit and refine concepts of their old EP, and charge them with new inspiration brought by n...