Best Austrian short movies
A curated collection of popular short movies from Austria.
Arnulf Rainer (1960)
Arnulf Rainer (1960)
An experimental film, the last in Peter Kubelka's trilogy of “metric films”. Each frame of Arnulf Rainer is composed of darkness or light and silence or sound.
31/75: Asylum (1975)
31/75: Asylum (1975)
A meadow, a lake, the silhouette of a hill, trees. 21 days of the same view in Saarland. 21 days with five different cut-outs in a mask before the camera, which finally reveals a complete panorama. The landscape changes with the advancing seasons and becomes slowly delirious in its technical alienation.
Cause of Death (2020)
Cause of Death (2020)
Through archival film footage, animation and spoken word poetry an experience of structural violence against women is exposed.
Bacchanal (2006)
Bacchanal (2006)
Two young friends reveal their hidden desires by a theatrical presentation of Dionysus. The myth as well as the girl, initiating and redemptive becomes the catalyst of the hidden inner desires.’
Fire & Rain (2009)
Fire & Rain (2009)
How do you make something last just a minute that actually takes ten times as long? You boil it down. "I took the steel rolling process that takes about 10 minutes", James Benning writes about Fire & Rain, "and condensed it down to one minute by cutting out portions and hiding the ellipses in time with dissolves".
Jesus Walking on Screen (1993)
Jesus Walking on Screen (1993)
A short found footage trailer made for a film program dedicated to the depiction of Jesus in cinema.
Yes? Oui? Ja? (2003)
Yes? Oui? Ja? (2003)
16mm, 4min, colour, sound Experimantal montage film from Thomas Drashchan