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AUSTRIA PANORAMA

66 min
Cinema: SAT 9.3., 14:00 / METRO Kino, Historischer Saal
SUN 10.3., 16:30 / METRO Kino, Pleskow Saal

Austrian animated films traditionally tend to either feature an experimental approach or focus on strong narratives. In this program, the two genres are combined as we delve into the unseen, the missing, things invisible to the eye, but still ever present. Sometimes these intangible things appear for a short period of time and reveal themselves to us, the viewers.

Only available in cinema.

IRINA

Amelie Loy, 2023, AT, 6 minutes

A wall of trees. Her sudden urges to break out of the cold loneliness lead to nothing. A sudden impact leads Irina to choose between owning her life or ending it.

I CAN FEEL IT COMING

Karin Fisslthaler , 2022, AT, 8 minutes

Air is visible only in the things that it moves: in wafting curtains, billowing meadows, or swaying trees. Karin Fisslthaler composes an abstract experience from dynamic images that make the wind visible, audible, and perceptible in its essence. (Michelle Koch)

THE MISSING SPOTS

Astrid Rothaug, 2023, AT, 2 minutes

A playful poem tells the story of a little leopard who doesn’t have any spots and just can’t seem to fit in because he looks so different from anyone else. Determined to change, he tries some ideas to finally be accepted.

BEAUTIFUL CITY

Hubert Marz, Susana Ojeda, 2022, AT, 11 minutes

We are taken on a trip along the Parkway in Bogotá. After a few steps, the colonial city cracks, its human and non-human inhabitants transform it, the sounds of pots and pans disrupt normality, protest songs call for courage, the monuments fall.



SPEAKING UP PASSING OUT

Jeong-yun Yu, 2023, AT, 5 minutes

Feeling anxious about giving a presentation in front of people, our protagonist is overcome by fear. A mischievous black goat suddenly appears and leads her on a journey where she faces different hardships and tries to deal with them.



DAS GROßE BAUMSTÜCK | THE GREAT TREE PIECE

Claudia Larcher, 2022, AT, 10 minutes

What makes a tree a tree? What form can an encounter with it take? And what does the tree itself have to do with what we see? Answers begin to reveal themselves as soon as we contemplate the endlessly complex relationship between humans and nature. (Ivana Miloš)

A WOMAN’S ODYSSEY

Leila Samari, Maryam Sehhat, 2023, AT, 7 minutes

On her journey to freedom, a woman dies and is born again many times. In a symbolic narrative, her struggles take the form of a twisted odyssey, praising both nature and life. She develops a deep connection with a goldfish and tries to save it.

PLASMA – HOLZBUCH STUDIE III | PLASMA – WOOD-BOOK STUDY III

Iby-Jolande Varga, 2023, AT, 3 minutes

Using the metaphor of a book, five gates of luminescent Plasma are unveiled. Crafted from wood, metal and canvas, it is stop-motion filmed with a 360° camera. Loops of hand-drawn, multi-layered metamorphosis are projected into its expansive space.

CISN’T – EIN (ECHT) LANGER WEG | CISN’T – A (REALLY) LONG ROAD

Amrei Corv Fürst, 2023, AT, 5 minutes

“The other children often made fun of me and called me ugly, fat, or a boy. The first two hurt, the last one never did.” The film's narrator delivers an inner monologue in which they reflect on the constant struggle for gender identity in a binary world.

KILL-THE BAND – BITE ME, BABY

Katarina Michelitsch, 2023, AT, 3 minutes

This music video features the band superimposed on a colourful background of gif-like little loops, playfully accompanying the lyrics which address topics such as anger, being too nice and the longing for a respectful “other”.

ZINN – DAS KAPITAL

Leonie Bramberger, 2023, AT, 4 minutes

The story begins in an enchanted forest at night, but quickly turns from fairytale to nightmare when a new entity appears. It engulfs everything in its path, consuming its creators and all other things before departing hungrily across the hills.

VIOLENCIA. 031222_1 | VIOLENCE. 031222_1*

Irene G. Villanueva, 2023, AT, 4 minutes

The film compiles 19 years of femicide in Spain into a painful experience of visual violence. The names and ages, if known, of 1,651 murdered women flicker across the screen in rapid succession, creating a sense of horror and distress.


*Warning: may affect viewers with photosensitive epilepsy