Film – archive
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 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
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
Venue and Information
Aurora Festival, Norwich
Cinema City, St Andrew's Street, Norwich, T: 0871 704 2053
Wednesday 31 October 2007, 6.30pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
An evening commemorating the 50th anniversary of Erich Wolfgang Korngold’s untimely death
Presented by Brendan Carroll and CINECLUB
Austrian composer Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957) was one of the most remarkable child prodigies in history, declared a genius by Mahler and admired by both Richard Strauss and Puccini. He became a major symphonic and opera composer but the rise of Nazism forced him to leave Vienna and eventually settle in Hollywood in the late 1930s, where he literally invented the symphonic film score. Winning two ‘Oscars’ he composed landmark scores for such legendary films as Captain Blood, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Sea Hawk and Kings Row. His influence is felt even today in the music for such films as Star Wars, Superman, Pirates of the Caribbean and Troy.
In this special presentation to mark the 50th anniversary of Korngold’s death, his biographer Brendan Carroll will show how Korngold is now regarded as the foremost pioneer of film music. Featuring many rare film clips and archive recordings, this evening will present a unique profile of the Maestro of Hollywood’s Golden Age.
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
Friday 19 October 2007, 6.30pm
Austrian Catholic Centre, London
Fiona Rukschcio:
…der Arbeit wegen / for the Sake of Finding Work
Women from Austria find a new home in Great Britain – exemplary fates from 1936-50.
With Zita Burke, Gertrud Hughes, Josefine Koritsas, Erna Robinson, Olga Runge, Ida Upham-Battlogg, Aurelia Weisz. The film will be presented in the presence of director Fiona Rukschcio and interviewer Anna Ringler, in cooperation with the Austrian Catholic Center.
Venue and Information
Austrian Catholic Centre, London
29 Brook Green, Hammersmith, London W6 7BL,
E acclondon@aol.com, T 020 7603 2697
Tuesday 16 October 2007, 6.30pm
Ciné Lumière, London
Our Daily Bread
Presented by Ciné Lumière and CINECLUB
Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s documentary ( Austria 2005) reveals the little-known world of high-tech agriculture and food production. To the rhythm of conveyor belts and immense machines, the film looks without commenting into the places where food is produced in Europe: monumental spaces, surreal landscapes and bizarre sounds. People, animals, crops and machines play a supporting role in the logistics of this system which provides our society’s standard of living.
Venue and Information
Ciné Lumière, London
17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT,
Box Office: T: 0207 073 1356, www.institut-francais.org.uk, Tickets: Single bill: £7, £5 concession, double-bill: £9, £7 concession
Tuesday 16 October 2007, 8.30pm
Ciné Lumière, London
We feed the World
Presented by Ciné Lumière and CINECLUB
We Feed The World (Austria 2005) by Erwin Wagenhofer is a film about food and globalisation, fishermen and farmers, long-distance lorry drivers and high-powered corporate executives, the flow of goods and cash flow–a film about scarcity amid plenty. With its unforgettable images, the film provides insight into the production of our food and answers the question what world hunger has to do with us.
Venue and Information
Ciné Lumière, London
17 Queensberry Place, London SW7 2DT,
Box Office: T: 0207 073 1356, www.institut-francais.org.uk, Tickets: Single bill: £7, £5 concession, double-bill: £9, £7 concession
Thursday 13 September 2007, 6.30 pm
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Two cities, two documentaries:
Im Schatten der Wiener, by Georg Steinböck & Erzähl mir Berlin, by Kate McNaughton
Presented by CINECLUB at the Austrian Cultural Forum
The documentary “Im Schatten der Wiener“ (Viennese shadows; Austria 2006, 43 min, German with English sub-titles) is a social experiment, a filmic portrait of Vienna, through randomly chosen protagonists. Its interest lies in the uniqueness of each individual and is inspired by James Joyce’s quote: “I never met a boring person”. Georg Steinböck explains: “I was interested what might happen, if one approaches people on the street, ask them for permission to film them as they go about their daily routines and that way get to know them, in the presence of the camera.” The director will be present at the screening.
“Erzähl mir Berlin” (Tell me Berlin; Germany, France 2006, 65 min, German with English sub-titles) follows six individuals as they tell us their version of the story of Berlin – and how the historical events that have shaken the city have influenced their own lives. Travelling on foot, by rail, and even in a spluttering old timer, we journey back to the city’s past…
The director Kate McNaughton will be present at the screening.
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
Thursday 5 July 2007, 6.30 pm
Venue to be announced, London
Wholly Communion (Peter Whitehead, GB 1965)
Special screening, followed by reminiscences and discussions with Peter Whitehead (director), Michael Horovitz (performance poet) and Bernhard Fetz / Hannes Schweiger, who are working on a biography of Austrian poet Ernst Jandl.
Like Michael Horovitz, Ernst Jandl (1925-2000) participated in the legendary international poets’ gathering of 11th June 1965 at Royal Albert Hall on which Whitehead’s documentary is based. The event, attracting an audience of 8000, also featured Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alexander Trocchi, Gregory Corso, Adrian Mitchell, Christopher Logue and Harry Fainlight.