Film – archive
Friday 27 June 2008, 6:30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Eleven Minutes
Two Halftimes, one match! Four filmmakers from Austria and four from Switzerland have each made one 11-minute short film relating to the European football championship Euro 2008 in Austria and Switzerland. Add two 1-minute trailers and you get two halftimes of 45 minutes each.
The audience shall decide the winners of this artistic match.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 29 May 2008, 6:30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Richard Tauber
The Consumate Musician
A special celebration of the legendary Austrian tenor Richard Tauber to mark the 60th anniversary year of his death. Writer and musicologist Brendan G. Carroll examines Tauber’s career and his astonishing versatility as a major singer in all genres, composer, conductor and even film star, and assesses his enduring appeal.
Illustrated with unique materials from Brendan Carroll’s private collection including rare recordings, broadcasts, film clips and excerpts from archival interviews with those who knew and worked with Richard Tauber.
All film clips in English or with English subtitles / approx. 40min length
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 8 May, 2008, 6:30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Axel Corti - Der Fall Jägerstätter
Filmed in 1971, Axel Corti’s dramatized, very cinematic portrayal of the life of Franz Jägerstätter (superbly played by Kurt Weinzierl) is one of the finest of its kind. Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector and devout catholic, was executed by the Nazis in 1943. In 2007 he was beatified.
Entry is free but seating is limited. Please rsvp to culture@austria.org.uk or 020 7225 7300
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Thursday 24 April 2008, 6.30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
John Cook, Film maker and Viennese
by choice (1935-2001)
Presented by CINECLUB at the Austrian Cultural Forum
in cooperation with Synema, Vienna
In the late 1960s, John Cook, the famous Canadian fashion photographer got tired of his métier, moved to Vienna and started a new career as a film maker from scratch. With “Ich schaff’s einfach nimmer”, a portrait of his housekeeper and her husband, Cook single-handedly brought a brand of freewheeling auteur cinema to the “Austrian New Wave” of the 1970s.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Wednesday 5 March & Thursday 6 March 2008
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Foreigners Out! Schlingensiefs Container
Presented by director and author Paul Poet
Foreigners Out! Schlingensief’s Container is Paul Poet’s documentary of German shock director Christoph Schlingensief’s actionist project Wien-Aktion in the wake of the formation in Austria of a coalition government including the right-wing Freedom Party under Jörg Haider in 2000. Aiming at exposing xenophobia and the politics of exclusion in the most drastic way possible, Schlingensief installed a container in the centre of Vienna, right beside the opera house where hundreds of tourists and locals pass by daily. Like in the reality TV show “Big Brother”, twelve persons identified as refugees that had applied for asylum in Austria were asked to live in the container for a week, monitored by a multitude of cameras, and the audience could call in daily and place their vote for the two candidates they would most like to see deported from the country. The project, which hade been commissioned by the Wiener Festwochen, resulted in heated, extensive public debates.
The film has won prizes at the Houston Worldfest 03 and Images Festival Toronto 04. It was also voted by Loney Planet Travel Guide as one of the ten most important films to watch before visiting Austria.
Director and author Paul Poet will be available for Q&A following the screenings.
Wednesday 5 March, Warwick University, www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents
Thursday 6 March ICA London, Cinema 2, 6.30pm, www.ica.org.uk; T 020 793 3647
The ICA showing is part of the exhibition Double Enemy addressing audience-interactive performance art.
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Friday 29 February - Sunday 9 March 2008
Ciné Lumière, London
Michael Haneke Film Season
On the occasion of the forthcoming release of Michael Haneke’s “Funny Games 2007”, CINE CLUB, in collaboration with Ciné Lumière and Tartan Films, is proud to present a full retrospective of Austria’s most eminent contemporary director’s feature films. In addition to Haneke’s films, the 10 day programme will include titles, relevant in relation to his work, by other directors such as Sam Peckinpah, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Robert Bresson and Robert Altman.
www.institut-francais.org.uk
Tickets: Single bill £7, (£5 concession)
Box office: 020 7073 1350
Venue and Information
Ciné Lumière, London
Institut Français
17 Queensberry Place
Thursday 6 December 2007, 6.30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Die Trapp Familie
The film responsible for ‘The Sound of Music’: One of the biggest commercial successes of the Heimatfilm genre, Die Trapp Familie (1956), directed by Wolfgang Liebeneiner, is loosely based on the memories of Maria von Trapp. It preceded the 1959 Broadway musical Sound of Music and the 1965 Hollywood film.
Entry is free, but reservation is essential!
Venue & Information
Austrian Cultural Forum London
London 28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ
T: 020 7225 7300
E: culture@austria.org.uk
Saturday 24 November – Monday 26 November 2007
CINECITY, Brighton
The Brighton Film Festival:
Austrian Artists’ Moving Image
As part of this year’s CINECITY Film Festival, this programme will focus on the Austrian film avant-garde. Participants from Austria will include directors Gustav Deutsch and Peter Tscherkassky who will deliver master-classes and film expert Dietmar Schwärzler who will present historical and contemporary Austrian film avant-garde. Q&A’s hosted by Mark Webber.
Venue and Information
CINECITY, Brighton
Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton, BN2 0JY, T 01273 643010
Tuesday 27 – Thursday 29 November 2007
Ciné Lumière, London
Voyage: European Documentary Season
at the Ciné Lumière
Über Wasser. Menschen und Gelbe Kanister / About Water. People and Yellow Cans is screened as part of ‘Voyages’ a ten-day documentary film season celebrating the diversity of European documentary film making. About Water portrays different people’s lives and their daily struggle with, and for, water. The film takes us from Bangladesh to the vanashing Aral Sea in Kazakhstan and further on to the capital of Kenya, Nairobi.
For more information please visit www.europe.org.uk/voyages
Venue and Information
Ciné Lumière, London
17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT, Box office: T 0207 073 1356, www.institut-francais.org.uk
Thursday 8 November, 2007 17.00
Aurora Festival, Norwich
Brigitta Bödenauer: …as they pass…
With her films Bödenauer generates emotive sequences from reassembling stills (photographic images, graphics, sketches etc.) into animated trajectories beyond their original context. In ‘…as they pass…’ (2006) she overlays silk paint on glass. Eventually the composition turns into streaks of colour which zip upwards or to the side accompanied by an increasing volume of sound.
The footage for the film was shot in Vienna’s Kahlenberg-Hotel, which was demolished in 2005. The hotel’s history, analogous to the theme ‘…as they pass…’, revolves around: memory, the selective emotional remembrance of the past, things which are not (no longer) physically present.
To find out more about Bödenauer’s work and the AURORA animation festival visit: www.aurora.org.uk