Austria Movies

Freude is a film trying to mimic a visual orgasm. It’s trying to have sex with your retina.

In 1994 I bought a small Hi8 video camera though I didn't really want one, as I already had a large video camera. The large camera was OK, but it was...

For the artist Fernand Leger (1881-1955),the promise of film as a new art form lay in its potential to exhibit the visual, to present an image rather...

The singer Karl Schwamberger (Laokoongruppe) performs as an animated figure on a stack of postits, as the lyrics to Walzerkoenig roll past on a till r...

The longing for something to finally happen is fulfilled by a kiss. Not the romantic kind, however, but a monstrous one, a kiss the world will talk ab...

A man longs for something he encountered in the forests of Austria.

The largest casino in Europe but is it just a big mess? Daniel Hoesl presents Un gran casino as an angry musing on a building, an Italian village and...

Fresh out of a psychiatric hospital, Pia moves back in with her parents to get her life together. Torn between a new job, lovesickness, psychotropic d...

Harry Bricourt is wealthy and has a family that loves him above all else. Nevertheless, he can not escape the charms of other women and spends a lot o...

Laurus learns of Dracula's return, who wants to conquer his wife. He must now defeat Dracula to save his wife and son, while many vampires long for mo...

2001 Essen recording of the Viennese musical Elisabeth

A staging of Verdi's opera "Aida" by Shirin Neshat. Recorded during Salzburg Festival 2017.

CLEANING AND CLEANSING tells of the glamor and misery of hygiene. Without resorting to interviews or explanatory off-camera commentary, it stages its...

Elizabeth T. Spira filmed with cameraman Peter Kasperak at Vienna's West and South Railway Stations in 1997. Her interviewees were travelers, commuter...

Early short horror film directed by Wilhelm Müller.