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A FESTIVAL FOR EXPERIMENTS IN MOVING PICTURES
SECOND EDITION | 14 - 17 MAY 2025






   

FESTIVAL


+ MOVING IMAGES ON AND BEYOND THE SCREEN
+ INSTALLATIONS, INTERVENTIONS
+ SPREADING THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT
+ QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
a+f+v presents experiments in moving images on and beyond the cinema screen. The media and spatial boundaries of the screen or cinema hall are constantly being explored anew, going beyond conventional screenings in hybrid screening formats, installation screenings, interventions in public spaces and other work-specific presentation formats.

The Breitenseer Lichtspiele, founded in 1905, presenting film ever since without interruption are a consistent part of Vienna's cinema culture. The cinema forms the festival’s centre from where screenings, performances, concerts and many other work-specific formats spread throughout the district.

The programme will be published in April 2025. To stay up to date to a+f+v’s activities feel welcome to subscribe to our newsletter.


CALL FOR ENTRIES


+ DATES
+ PROCEDURE
Earlybird Deadline | 31 December 2024
Regular Deadline | 16 February 2025
Late Deadline | 9 March 2025
Notification Date | 31 March 2025
Festival | 14-17 May 2024

Films and concepts for media hybrid works can be submitted via Film Freeway. Please provide additional information on your work, if it requires to be presented in an installation, if it has performative aspects, and/or if it has other specific technical requirements regarding the presentation.

We are excited to stay in contact with you. Nevertheless please consider that submissions are only accepted via Film Freeway. Filmmakers and artists living in a country currently excluded from SWIFT: Please send us a short e-mail explaining your situation and we will be happy to provide you with a fee waiver.

AWARDS 2024


Given the participation of so many outstanding filmmakers in the festival, selecting the winners was particularly difficult for the jury. It is with great pleasure that the following films receive awards:

Award in the Experimental Media category for Kinderfilm by Total Refusal | By using existing computer game worlds as the context of their narratives, Total Refusal not only succeeds in a resistant reinterpretation of entertainment infrastructure, but also in revealing underlying mechanisms and sociocultural norms. The absence of children in the successful computer game Grand Theft Auto probably results from the pragmatism of the developers in order to avoid any moral dilemmas in the virtual world of the action game. At the same time, Kinderfilm also makes such visual exclusion mechanisms tangible concerning other groups not represented by the smooth surface of computer game worlds.

Award in the Narration category for Direction of the Road by Janelle VanderKelen | In her films, Janelle VanderKelen gives plants agency. She cleverly uses the time-based medium of film to remove the clearest barrier between human and plant perception. However, she does not stop at making plants act perceptibly for humans, but rather gives them convincing internal logics that correspond to the sensorium and context of plants. The Direction of the Road is just the latest example in a series of successful changes in perspective directed by her.

Award in the Image category for Hermione: kingdom of the sick by Andy Holden | Hermione: kingdom of the sick immerses viewers in the strange but no less fascinating visual world of the self-taught artist Hermione. With the help of computer animation, Andy Holden overcomes the limitations of the documentary view, spatializes Hermione's images, cleverly interweaves visual fragments from the paintings with CGI-reconstructed, biographical locations through which an avatar of the late artist leads around this digital speculation with video interviews with Hermione's companions to combine.

Award in the Sound category for do they speak color? by Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovacic| Sound and video meet at eye level in the duo's film. Billy Roisz and Dieter Kovacic confidently demonstrate that sound and music not only assist the image projected on the screen, but also form independent elements of their artistic repertoire. As aural explorers, they accompany viewers in soundscapes whose sound is at least as exciting as the sight.

The jury also gives honorary mentions to the extraordinary films The Eyeball Person by Yuri Muraoka, Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer by Vera Sebert, Groundapple by LLonymus Axoparri and Domestic Balance by Federica Sala.


FESTIVAL  LOCATION



+ Breitenseer Lichtspiele