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Filmstill Marine Target

Marine Target

Marine Target
Lukas Marxt
German Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Austria,
Germany
2022
10 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Lukas Marxt’s fourth film about the Salton Sea in Southern California focuses on 1944/45, when about 150 dummies, replicas of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were dropped there for ballistic tests. “Marine Target” measures the remains of the wooden target platforms from up close and high above. The disconcerting soundtrack to this fascinating filmic study is provided by a swelling adaptation of the Nigerian hit “Atomic Bomb” by William Onyeabor.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Lukas Marxt
Cinematographer
Lukas Marxt
Editor
Lukas Marxt, Vanja Smiljanić
Producer
Lukas Marxt
Sound
Marcus Zilz
Score
Marcus Zilz
World Sales
Dietmar Schwärzler
International Competition 2022
Filmstill Matter Out of Place
Matter Out of Place
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
A monumental study on garbage as the shaper of landscapes and the people and machines it keeps busy: from the workings of a self-sustaining system.
Filmstill Matter Out of Place

Matter Out of Place

Matter Out of Place
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
International Competition 2022
Documentary Film
Austria
2022
105 minutes
Albanian,
Nepali,
Swiss German,
English
Subtitles: 
English

For his monumental study of displacement, Nikolaus Geyrhalter has travelled across continents, mapping a new kind of landscape that has become detached from geographical or climatic conditions under palm trees, on mountains, at rivers, in the snow. Washed up, blown in, piled up, caught or left somewhere – where once the forces of nature were at work, garbage now dominates the shape of things. It has even brought forth a new social type: the relocator.

As in all his films, Nikolaus Geyrhalter operates the camera himself. It stands still, often for minutes, as if it couldn’t believe what presents itself: plastic webs seemingly grown together with the scrawny branches on embankments, decaying newspapers and cocoa powder packaging in the excavated soil of a potato field in Switzerland, beaches seamed at the waterline by a carpet of Styrofoam and plastic containers. In equally delicately composed images, the filmmaker focuses on the machines and people who work away at these garbage landscapes. They excavate and compact, collect and sort, sweep and rake, move one thing this way and the other that way with grapplers or hands. Well-formed and without comment, the inner workings of a self-sustaining system are revealed in which a process of alienation is underway that causes problem and solution to drift apart.
Sylvia Görke

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Director
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Cinematographer
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Editor
Samira Ghahremani, Michael Palm
Producer
Michael Kitzberger, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser
Sound
Sergey Martynyuk, Nora Czamler
Sound Design
Florian Kindlinger, Flora Rajakowitsch
World Sales
Salma Abdalla
Nominated for: Prize of the Interreligious Jury, FIPRESCI Prize, Gedanken Aufschluss Prize, Young Eyes Film Award
Soul-Things 2022
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The 3 Rs
David Lynch
A nervously vibrating camera, a rubber duck being beheaded by algebra. Short and with a vengeance, David Lynch lights a beacon against the school-inculcated view of the world.
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The 3 Rs

The 3 Rs
David Lynch
Soul-Things 2022
Experimental Film
Austria,
USA
2011
1 minute
English
Subtitles: 
None

A nervously vibrating camera, a rubber duck being beheaded by algebra. In only one minute and with a vengeance, David Lynch lights a beacon against the school-inculcated view of the world. Reading, wRiting, aRithmetic – the three basic cultural techniques “drilled” into us turn out to be childhood traumas and opponents of the immeasurable, the mysterious and the indescribable.

André Eckardt

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Director
David Lynch
Script
David Lynch
Cinematographer
David Lynch
Editor
David Lynch
Filmstill The Artist in the Machine

The Artist in the Machine

The Artist in the Machine
Claudia Larcher
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Austria
2022
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Her “artificial assistant” is what Claudia Larcher calls the AI that digitally analysed her analogue “Baumeister” series of collages and generated this film from them. Creator or servant spirit, the machine makes architectural sketches waft biomorphically and enlivens (i.e. animates) rigid shapes. The Japanese Metabolists who called for the fluid renewal of their buildings, the organic growth, deformation and decay of architecture, would have liked “The Artist in the Machine”.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Claudia Larcher
Cinematographer
Claudia Larcher
Editor
Claudia Larcher
Producer
Claudia Larcher
Sound
Claudia Larcher
Animation
Artificial Assistant No. 2
World Sales
Gerald Weber
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Soul-Things 2022
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The Magical Dimension
Gudrun Krebitz
She opens her arms wide: Crossing from an unbearable reality to the world of magic sometimes takes only the snap of a finger, sometimes several press-ups.
Filmstill The Magical Dimension

The Magical Dimension

The Magical Dimension
Gudrun Krebitz
Soul-Things 2022
Animated Film
Germany,
Austria
2018
7 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

She opens her arms wide: “I want to go home, do my dreaming.” Crossing from an unbearable reality to the world of magic sometimes takes only the snap of a finger, sometimes several press-ups. Gudrun Krebitz’s poetic combination of video and animation recommends pushing the gravestone aside and descending into one’s subconscious.

André Eckardt

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Director
Gudrun Krebitz
Sound Design
Gudrun Krebitz, Marian Mentrup
Animation
Gudrun Krebitz
German Competition 2022
Filmstill She Chef
She Chef
Gereon Wetzel, Melanie Liebheit
Agnes travels from luxury kitchen to luxury kitchen. We follow the young woman on a culinary journey that lets us experience the craft of cooking from up close.
Filmstill She Chef

She Chef

Wanderjahre
Gereon Wetzel, Melanie Liebheit
German Competition 2022
Documentary Film
Germany,
Austria
2022
100 minutes
German,
English,
Danish,
Spanish
Subtitles: 
English

We’re travelling from luxury kitchen to luxury kitchen with Agnes, from Bergisch Gladbach via Barcelona to the Faroe Islands. The cook’s luggage always includes her backpack containing various knives, cleavers and tweezers. The camera watches over the inquisitive young woman’s shoulder as delicacies are being prepared. Our mouths water. At the same time, we get insights into the different ways of running a restaurant. It’s about team spirit and equality at the stove.

Goethe’s “Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship and Travels” comes to mind, because this observational documentary is also like a novel of development. Agnes is ambitious, knows her craft. She wants to be her own boss one day. She soon finds her way around every new team, takes her place. It’s a sensuous pleasure to watch how the many hands interlock, how culinary creations are lovingly made, delicately plucked salad leaves arranged as decorations. At the same time, Agnes has to struggle against opposition. Her wages are low. A colleague asks her what business she, who has just finished her apprenticeship, has in a three-star restaurant. Agnes is moving in a male domain, in an environment that tends to pass the pressure down. But in the course of her journey, she also comes across collective forms of cooperation and new visions of cooking.
Anke Leweke

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Director
Gereon Wetzel, Melanie Liebheit
Cinematographer
Gereon Wetzel
Editor
Stephan Bechinger
Producer
Florian Brüning, Thomas Herberth, Alireza Golafshan
Sound
Melanie Liebheit
Score
Wolf-Maximillian Liebich
World Sales
Georg Gruber
Funder
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern, Filmfonds Wien, ORF Film/Fernsehabkommen, Deutscher Filmförderfonds (DFFF), Österreichisches Filminstitut, BKM – Staatsministerin Kultur und Medien, Filmstandort Austria (FISA)
Nominated for: VER.DI Prize for Solidarity, Humanity and Fairness, Young Eyes Film Award, DEFA Sponsoring Prize