Happy Doom - Shorts from Austria
The set features seven of the 14 short films that qualified for the 2024 Austrian Film Award. The selected films share a certain perspective of the world through technology and the film medium, and on the other they grapple with visions of the future and try to cope with the past, melancholy and loss. They differ formally, however: from quasi-documentary assembled from CCTV camera footage, through images approaching video art, made without a camera and set in a virtual world, to hypnotising, abstract compositions of an avant-garde character.
The programme is a joint initiative of the Austrian Film Academy and Austria's Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs (BMEIA).
Stanisław Welbel
Screenings
Recordings of a Weather Camera
A ski resort and fantastic mountain panoramas. While the image boundaries of the panning weather camera constantly move back and forth, interpersonal boundaries are crossed in the foreground.
Bernhard Wenger
Bernhard Wenger was born 1992 in Salzburg, Austria. He lives in Vienna, where he studied directing at the Vienna Film Academy. His debut feature film Peacock had it's World Premiere at Venice Film Festival 2024. He developed the script in the Cinéfondation Residence of the 73rd Festival de Cannes 2020. Bernhard loves to work with subtle, odd, and visual humour. His short film Excuse Me, I'm Looking for the Ping-Pong Room and My Girlfriend was awarded Best Short Film at the Austrian Film Awards 2019, won the Max Ophüls Award, as well as both short film awards at the Diagonale – Festival of Austrian Film. His short Recordings for a Weather Camera was nominated for the 2023 First Steps Award. Bernhard is also an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Locarno Filmmakers Academy, Zürich Film Festival Academy and Talent Village Les Arcs.
2013 Sucre (short)
2015 Ausstieg Rechts (short)
2018 Przepraszam, szukam stołu do ping ponga oraz mojej dziewczyny / Excuse Me, I'm Looking for the Ping-Pong Room and My Girlfriend (short)
2019 Guy Proposes to His Girlfriend on a Mountain (short)
2024 Paw zwyczajny / Pfau - Bin ich echt? / Peacock
Echoes Of Grief
The short film Echoes of Grief is an artistic exploration of the complexity of human grief after a fatal loss.
Watering the Garden
Los Angeles. Veronika Eberhart weaves her own footage, archive material and film clips into a reflection on the dream factory - between historical interrogations and endless hotel corridors.
Happy Doom
HAPPY DOOM is an audiovisual poem, an ode to color intoxication and dizziness. The screen is a vibrating membrane that simultaneously spits and swallows colors and noisy beats.
Kinderfilm
An ordinary day in GTA V - but an invisible void shapes the world. Edgar searches for the canceled future in the code of his reality and explores a nightmarishly beautiful normality...
Never Come Back
Museum depots are the backdrop for 'Never Come Back'. In the cage-like depot, a naked musician reflects this tension, inspired by works full of exoticism, patriotism, religious fervor and eroticism.
NYC RGB
Viktoria Schmid brings together pictures of a studio apartment on the 20th floor of Manhattan, each of which is exposed three times through red, green and blue filters.