PROGRAMME
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
Journey to the Planet of Nuclear Chewing Gum by Vera Sebert
Austria | Interactive Film | 2018
on view in the cinema’s foyer throughout the festival
Digital images of different objects are assembled in the picture’s foreground and overlapping found and newly assorted footage. They can be rearranged randomly by drag and drop. Each movement of an object is linked to one individual sound snippet and a random subtitle. By interacting viewers create a strong varying narrative form which manifests in the space between text, image and film.
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.