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VERSUCHE 22 – Art & Film

Datum
Event Label
Film screening
Organisational Units
Fine Arts
Location Description
Breitenseer Lichtspiele
Breitenseer Straße 21
1140 Vienna

The studio for Art and Film invites you to cinema screenings on two evenings at Breitenseer Lichtspiele. The program consists of practice, footage, results… cinematic attempts („Versuche“) by the students.

Tuesday, 28.6.2022, 20 h (program approx. 75 min):

I’m a Doggy
16mm-practice by Leo Haas and Benedikt Werth. AUT 2022, B/W, 3 min
Dogs must go out, even if the humans shouldn’t.

black and white photo, close up of dog face
I’m a Doggy (16mm-practice) by Benedikt Werth and Leo Haas. AUT 2022, B/W, 3 min

Schützenfest
Footage by Lennart Hüper. Color, 13 min, incidental german dialogue
"Being a marksman means being a protector of faith and custom, of local folklore and traditions" - constitution of the St. Hubertus-Schützenbruderschaft 1417 e.V.

photo of a gathering of hunters in white shirts standing together in a large wooden hall with green hunter hats and holding their guns in the air, blue and white flags and garlands hanging everywhere
Schützenfest (footage) by Lennart Hüper. Color, 13 min

When life begins
Directing: Gabriel Monthaler Production: Samira Fux, Gabriel Monthaler Cinematography: Samira Fux Production Sound: Gabriel Monthaler, Samira Fux Sound Design: Ulrich Dallinger Sound Mixing: Tone Demand e.U. Color Grading: Benedikt Werth Translation: Quiwa Russinger. AUT 2021, color, 28 min. German with englisch subtitles
Hermi maintains her generous garden well, for the neighbours talk. A stranger’s eye rarely makes it inside the house, and more rarely an open ear. Over cigarettes and wine, she chats about the past, not much about the future, the most about recent events – for their wounds are the deepest. About age, retirement, new men, and dogs, short: about changes, Hermi doesn’t want to know anything. And still it seems as if a turning point in her life has been reached.

photo of an elderly person in a dark blue suit with a hood and a cigarette in his right hand
When life begins by Gabriel Monthaler and Samira Fux. AUT 2021, color, 28 min

Erde
16mm-pratice by Gabriel Monthaler and Lukas Ellmer. AUT 2022, B/W, 5 min, w/o dialogue
Hernals Cemetery stretches across a hillside and is home to 19,762 gravesites. From a distance, small everyday scenes are observed. In winter, however, it remains mostly quiet at the cemetery. Only sometimes something moves. Most of the time it is crows.

black and white shot of a cemetery employee driving a coffin decorated with flowers along an avenue at the cemetery covered with snow
Erde (16mm-practice) by Lukas Ellmer and Gabriel Monthaler. AUT 2022, B/W, 5 min

First documentary practice
by Konrad Behr. color, 8 min, w/o dialogue
Vasili stands in front of closed doors, climbs stairs and searches for the right restaurant.

Light shines through glass tiles into a black room
First documentary practice by Konrad Behr. Color, 8 min

Excerpts from Kirchstetten
Footage by Kyra Kaisla. B/W, 10 min, English with german subtitles
From 1958 until his death in 1973, renowned English poet W.H. Auden spent his summers in Kirchstetten, a small town in lower Austria, forty minutes by train from Vienna.

black and white photo of a rural church, around field and forest
Excerpts from Kirchstetten by Kyra Kaisla. B/W, 10 min

Gassi
Directing: Nora Ludwig, Johannes Lehnen Camera: Nora Ludwig Sound: Johannes Lehnen. AUT 2021, color, 4 min, w/o dialogue
Scaring away birds, barking, peeing, sniffing, drinking, panting, fetch, treats, rolling around, howling, waiting.

photo of a water varnish reflecting the light, next to stone floor
Gassi by Johannes Lehnen and Nora Ludwig. AUT 2021, color, 4 min

Wednesday, 29.6.2022, 20 h (program approx. 90 min):

Gassi
Directing: Nora Ludwig, Johannes Lehnen Camera: Nora Ludwig Sound: Johannes Lehnen. AUT 2021, color, 4 min, w/o dialogue
Scaring away birds, barking, peeing, sniffing, drinking, panting, fetch, treats, rolling around, howling, waiting.

Bessie and Zooey
First dramatic practice by Francesco Tacoli, Leo Haas, Johannes Lehnen and Benedikt Werth. With Martina Spitzer and Max Rönneberg. Color, 15 min, German
Based on a short story by J. D. Salinger: Bessie confronts her son Zooey with the nervous breakdown of his sister. While Zooey just tries to take a bath. A bathroom-confrontation.

photo of a woman and a young man who is applying beard foam on his face, the picture is grayed out
Bessie and Zooey (first dramatic practice) by Francesco Tacoli. Color, 15 min

Ice Skating
16mm-pratice by Lennart Hüper and Tobias Langer. AUT 2022, B/W, 5 min, w/o dialogue
People skating on the ice. Next to it a car convoy blocking the Ring street. A winter in times of Corona.

black and white photo of the ice rink in front of the Vienna City Hall, in the foreground the back of a sculpture, behind it the ice rink and the City Hall
Ice Skating (16mm-practice) by Lennart Hüper and Tobias Langer. AUT 2022, B/W, 5 min

North of Libya
Directing: Luise Müller Production: Maria Lisa Pichler, Catrin Freundlinger Cinematography: Lukas Schöffel Additional Camera: Yannick Reuter, David Ronner Production Sound: Maria Lisa Pichler Editing: Daniel Fill Fine Cut: Benedikt Werth Color Grading: Lukas Schöffel, Benedikt Werth Audio Postproduction: Klangkulisse Sound Editing: Eli Frauscher Sound Design: Eli Frauscher, Horst Schnattler Sound Mixing: Horst Schnattler Graphics: Juliana Melzer Translation: Isolda Mac Liam. AUT 2022, color, 60 min. German/English with english subtitles
While his ship is passing Hamburg’s industrial landscape on the shores of the river Elbe, Dariush is telling stories about this experiences on the Mediterranean. Dariush worked as a captain on sea rescue missions, his partner Antje as a paramedic. Antje describes the injuries and scars of the people they rescued. Her little dog sleeps next to her on the sofa. The film is a portrayal of the two that goes far beyond Europe’s borders. The pictures, however, stay in the port city of Northern Germany.

Photo of a man standing in the ship control room leaning on his instruments and looking out the window
North of Libya by Luise Müller. AUT 2022, color, 60 min

Railshop
16mm-practice by Konrad Behr and Johannes Lehnen. AUT 2022, B/W, 7 min, w/o dialogue
Hunger and thirst, quenched at Railshop, the 24 hours opened machine supermarket at Praterstern.

black and white photo of two people standing with their backs to each other in front of vending machines, in the background is the "Railshop" train
Railshop (16mm-practice) by Konrad Behr and Johannes Lehnen. AUT 2022, color, 7 min

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