AWARDS 2025
Erratic Lands – A visual journey on Alpine Apparatus by Julian Berger | Julian Berger’s animation film captures the recipient’s attention from the first image on. Based on fine-grained geological data, the filmmaker models a digital fiction of the Alps and the technical infrastructure that permeates them. It is precisely this overlay of reality and the plausible with the condensed scenario of a deserted infrastructure landscape rendered obsolete by climate change that makes Erratic Lands such a visually and thematically impressive analysis.
This Werewolf Complex by Heather E Andrews | This Werewolf Complex would be a successful awareness-raising tool if it weren't simply a remarkable short film, regardless of its ostensible subject matter. Heather E Andrews gives intimate insights into persons’ experiences with epilepsy without portraying them as patients. While we hear personal reports about aura and the very individual forms in which they can occur, on a visual level viewers enter a surreal at times quite humorous setting underlining the ambiguous experiences.
Durchgangsland by Daniel Fill | Optimists will discover in Durchgangsland a film about a European idea of coexistence. One that perhaps can only be formulated in a place that, from the outside, seems forgotten by the world. The biographies of the portrayed residents of Franzensfeste/Fortezza find their way to this place by chance; once they arrive, however, Franzensfeste/Fortezza becomes a characteristic anchor point. Daniel Fill succeeds in peering behind the facade of this seemingly cold, transitory land. The space he grants his interviewees is occupied by much more than mere narratives about a place; it speaks of flight, patriarchal violence, capitalist exploitation, and other challenges of our time, and how the fate of the protagonists in Franzensfeste changed for the better.
HONORARY MENTIONS 2025
Breaking Waves on the Surface of the Heartbeat Star MACHO 80.7443.1718 by Mona Freudenreich | Where the subject matter can be precisely calculated but cameras cannot (yet) provide images, research relies on simulation. Mona Freudenreich expands the visual and emotional palette of scientific visualization with pop references, found footage, and other sources that are associatively collaged.
You Are the Truck and I am the Deer by Max Ferguson | Max Ferguson’s film is not only a wild yet skilful ride through analogue collage and effects techniques, but is also as emotionally intense as it is visually powerful.
A Weak & Panicked Animal by Jake Starr | Jake Starr's film reminds viewers of the fragile relationship between humans and nature. The hubris of homo sapiens in finally declaring a separate geological era, the Anthropocene, is questioned. If stray wildlife is enough to send people into a panic, one can immediately imagine the powerlessness that true forces of nature would provoke. Cleverly edited from mostly surveillance camera footage, Starr makes a powerful point.
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PROGRAMME 2025
20:00 | OPENING SCREENING
Erratic Lands - A visual journey on Alpine Apparatus by Julian Berger | AT
Durchgangsland by Daniel Fill | AT
live Sound & Visuals by TE-R (Louise Linsenbolz & Thomas Wagensommerer)
19:00
Capers in the Office by Vera Sebert | DE
Trying to make a podcast by Marcin Ratajczyk | AT
Parangolé by Abinadi Meza | MX
Are we there yet? by Henrique Vilao | PT
Zap On by John Dawson | US
You Can't Find Love by Tom Bessoir | US
BOOKANIMA: Dance by Shon Kim | KR
This Grey by Cristina Zar | UK
One Hundred White Trucks by Brice Goldberg | US
When People Talk About Their Dead, They Look Up by Anna Halbleib | ES
Hands | Birds by Christine Kettaneh | LB
Moon Crab by Leah Clare Michaels | US
Try, Tri-Butterfly by Jonah Steeman | BE
21:00
Breaking Waves on the Surface of the Heartbeat Star MACHO 80.7443.1718 by Mona Freudenreich | DE
Space Waste by Don Hai Phu & Stefan Schmitzer | AT
Rain Undulations by Ruxandra Mitache | RO
grain cloud atmosphere by Martin Moolhuijsen | DE
REQUERIMIENTO by Andrea Bordoli | CH
Kintsugi Angel by Lukas Huffman & Erika Senft Miller | US
19:00
Policy Wonks by Sean Grattan | US
21:00
Full Out by Sarah Ballard | US
This Werewolf Complex by Heather E Andrews | UK
This Is How I Felt by Josh Weissbach | US
The Act of Not Seeing with One's Own Eyes by Markus Maicher | AT
Different/Same/Both/Neither by Çağla Gillis | AT
You Are the Truck and I am the Deer by Max Ferguson | BE
Nomadism, temporal connection and new feminine longings. by Maria Bilbao Herrera | VE
NIGHTS AND DAYS by Daniela Sláviková | SK
19:00
The Hall by Jingru (Cyan) Cheng, Chen Zhan, Mengfan Wang | CN
Umwelt/4470 - Part I by Charlie Tweed | UK
A Weak & Panicked Animal by Jake Starr | AU
We dreamed in places that no longer exist by Giorgos Efthimiou | GR
If the circumstances allow it by Karl Wratschko | AT
Four short films in memory of Tomonari Nishikawa selected by Estefanía Díaz & Carlos Cruz, FISURA
Erratic Lands - A visual journey on Alpine Apparatus by Julian Berger | AT
Spatial speculations about failed architectures in cooperation with the Institute for Visual Culture, Technical University Vienna by Jonas Leimer, Simge Pehlivan, Elias Roher | Philipp Jainz, Maximilian Liko | Atilla Boyan, Paul Sebasta, Abigail Troya | Andreea Avram, Johanna Maggauer | AT
21:00 | Film selection by FISURA for a+f+v
a+f+v is looking forward to presenting a selection of films from South Amercia by Estefanía Díaz and Carlos Cruz, the initiators and curators of FISURA. FISURA is a festival for experimental film in Mexico and will present in its fifth edition in Sepember 2025 a film selection by a+f+v.
“It is a Latin American experimental film program presented as a digital and photochemical mosaic where memory, land, personal cinema, the body, dance, ancestral practices and the struggle of native peoples are presented as a political and vertiginous window where untamed, poetic and metaphorical universes are revealed.”
Transbordos by Bruno Varela | MX
Image for Nina and the tree by Ana Comes | AR
Aquí unde tudo acaba by Claudia Cárdenas / Duo Strangloscope | BR
Firefly by Claudia Claremi | CU
Kopacabana by Marcos Bonisson, Khalil Charif | BR
Solar Weaver by Julio Saveedra | MX
Metamorphosis by Estefania Díaz | MX
Discovering mayonnaise by Silvana Camors | UY
BEYOND THE SCREEN
TE-R (Louise Linsenbolz & Thomas Wagensommerer) will perform at the openenig evening.
Realized with the kind support of Stadt Wien Kultur
Realized in cooperation with FISURA and the Institute for Visual Culture, Technical University of Vienna
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