Spontaneous, unplanned, non-staged recordings, mostly in foreign countries, paying increased attention to the ordinary, applying the ingenuity of the researcher in the quotidian and commonplace.
Nachhaltigkeit ist das ultimative Schlagwort im heutigen Zeitalter. Vernderungen sind zwar auch im Kleinen durchaus mglich. Aber hufig scheitert es dann doch daran, Nachhaltigkeit im Alltag wirkungsvoll in Taten umzusetzen. Es wird also hchste Zeit für Vernderungen. Diese filmische Entdeckungsreise nimmt die Zuschauer mit zu den Einsteigern in eine neue Gesellschaft und di...
A documentary of the site-specific performance on 16 May 1992, conceived by Erich Wonder & Heiner Müller for the 300th anniversary of the Akademie der bildenden Künste in Vienna. German band Einstürzende Neubauten is located on a glass palace/stage on wheels (accompanied by the slavish trotting of huskies) which is slowly moving on the nightly ring road of Vienna. Their only pe...
The protagonist of Krzysztof Kieslowski's legendary 1977 documentary "Night Porter's Point of View" is revisited by Andreas Horvath, who finds him retired and relatively well in a Warsaw suburb. He lives on a minimum pension in a characterless one-room apartment, with a giant wallpaper depicting a Hawaiian idyll. The former night porter, once a typical exponent of the communist...
Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona.
Aus einer Laune heraus googelt die Mutter der Regisseurin den Filmhelden ihrer Jugend: Helmut Berger. Sie ist schockiert: Von der einstigen Ikone scheint nur noch ein suchtkranker, verwirrter Schatten übrig geblieben zu sein, der – wenn überhaupt – nur noch mit Skandalen von sich reden macht und als traurige Gestalt im Dschungelcamp sitzt. Kurzerhand beschliet die Finanzcontro...
Acclaimed Austrian documentary director Ruth Beckermann portrays a dying culture of Viennese urban history in HOMEMAD(E). The entertaining as well as insightful doc was shown at the Forum section of the Berlinale. The Marc-Aurel-Strae in Vienna. The last Jewish shop owner in the former textile disctrict, the Iranian hotelier, the cafe Salzgries with its regular customers. From...
At the Wailing Wall or in the spotlight of a stage, wearing a Zorro costume or a designer dress, solemn or rollicking: crossing the threshold to the adult world can take place in very different ways. This film accompanies four 12-year-olds as they prepare for their bar or bat mitzvot.
"I don't know exactly why I traveled east this winter," filmmaker Ruth Beckermann says of her documentary journey through Eastern Europe. "I think I was just curious to know whether there was still any resemblance to the stories I grew up with." Beckermann's parents met in Vienna after the Holocaust; her father was a war refugee from Romania and her mother was a native of Vienn...