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
AWARDS 2024
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 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.
PROGRAMME 2024
20:00 | OPENING SCREENING
Digital avatars take the spotlight in all three films opening art+film+vienna 2024. Total Refusal, awarded with the European Film Award 2023, examine the uncanny yet surreal humoristic void, that is created by the absence of a certain group of protagonists in the virtual world of a popular video game. Andy Holden recreates an artist otherwise lost to oblivion and speculates about her personal inner kingdom. Finally Ryan Woodring’s digital creature blurs the line between the digital and the analog realm.
Kinderfilm by Total Refusal
spot healing by Ryan Woodring
Hermione: kingdom of the sick by Andy Holden
live performance by Roman Gavryliuk & Vano Sai
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19:00 | ROLEMODELS & STEREOTYPES
This screening block focuses on the complex realtions between generations and how stereotypes are perpetuated or can be replaced by new rolemodels, knowledged is passed down or forgotten between generations.
The Eyeball Person by Yuri Muraoka
Cherries by Vytautas Katkus
I'm Sorry I'm Late by Sharon Mooney
Exterior Day by Giulia Magno
What Else Grows On The Palm Of Your Hand by Dhiaa Biya
Domestic Balances by Federica Cecilia Sala
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21:00 | CHANGES OF PERSPECTIVE
How to portray botanical agency? Janelle VanderKelen lets us understand that time and therefore movement are measured differently in the realm of plants. But plants are not the only organisms this screening block focuses on. Pigeons often misunderstood as dull birds are portraited in their own words. Still human perception is by choice of the medium in focus of all films and in particular in Victoria Halper’s Floating Flies. Of course nature and mankind’s creations are sometimes in conflict, probably making some de-construction necessary.
Language Unknown by Janelle VanderKelen
Sjhlrùl by Anna Mancuso
Floating Flies by Victoria Halper
future ready:cusp by KJ Edwards
A thousand hands, a thousand eyes by So Jung Moon
to De-Construct a Citroen (2DCaC) by Renana Aldor
Direction of the Road by Janelle VanderKelen
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19:00 | IN SEARCH FOR MEANING
Did you ever wonder what a symbiotic collaboration between Aki Kaurismäki and Wes Anderson would look like? After having seen Groundapple we have a supposition. Very different narrative approaches result in related images depicting a city’s light emitting vedute in the Sower of Stars and Desert Bloom. Finally time and narratives are intersected in Ken Sackheim’s Always, Already.
Groundapple by LLonymus Axoparri
The Sower of Stars by Lois Patiño
Desert Bloom by Peter Kutin, Florian Kindlinger, Christina Kubisch
Susurro by Gabriel Gonzalez Acosta
Always, Already by Ken Sackheim
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21:00 | LANGUAGE, COLOUR, MUSIC
From start to end this screening block celebrates sound in dialogue with the bright colours of the projector with slight fragments of narration. There will be analogue collages, dreamy songs, spatial poems and dance - prepare for restless legs.
Glitter for Girls by Federica Foglia
sketchbook overload by Hannah Kretzschmar
Breakfast with Aliens by Hannah Kretzschmar
Plastik by Henrique Vilao
untitled (performance) by Ruxandra Mitache
Untitled[Krenek] by Magdalena Salner
2020 by Tom Bessoir | music by Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)
do they speak color? by Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovacic
Image Dance by John Dawson
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19:00 | HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT
They are literally everywhere, some even found states others are typical hemerophiles or cultural followers yet often they live hidden from human perception. Vera Sebert creates images and sounds addressing the silent disappearance of biodiversity and shere biomass in the kingdom of insects. Maud Faivre and Marceau Boré take a close look at what current experiments on insects allow us to speculate about thier partly highly complex abilities and finally Federica Foglia juxtoposes vintage erotica with entomological footage resulting in nightmarish beauty.
Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer by Vera Sebert
Animal Model by Maud Faivre, Marceau Boré
Negative / Positive Film | Federica Foglia
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21:00 | REAPPROPRIATING THE GAZE
By juxtoposing historical and more recent photographs and video footage Bea Mariano developes a personal view on the Philippines’ involontary colonial heritage. Tommaso Santambrogio mixes fact and speculation to shed a light on humanitarian crimes commited in the Philippines in the 1980ies and yet already often forgotten internationally.
Dominion by Bea Mariano
Taxibol by Tommaso Santambrogio
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BEYOND THE SCREEN
live performance by Roman Gavryliuk & Vano Sai
8 May, 20:00 | Breitenseer Lichtspielesyntethizers & electronics | Roman Gavryliuk
live visuals | Vano Sai
For the opening screening of a+f+v Roman Gavryliuk & Vano Sai created a live performance putting live generated electronic sound and live visuals in dialogue.