Curated by Daniel Ebner & Doris Bauer, VIS Vienna Shorts

Education and relationship, friendship and masculinity: This programme with five recent Austrian short films oscillates between authentic staging and stylised exaggeration, expressing not only the individual will to form, but also the narrative creative power – often paired with a tendency towards absurd humour.

 

 

Herbst 

Director: Meinhard Rauchensteiner

(A 2015, Duration: 03 Min.) 

The rebelliousness of technology against attempts at human taming, demonstrated using the example of a talking fabric monster. Pedagogically worthless, but a bubbling source of absurd humour.

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Mathias 

Director: Clara Stern

(A 2017, Duration: 30 Min.) 

Mathias starts a new job in a forwarding company. Not just a new job for him, but a big step on his way to his new identity. Mathias used to be Magda, but I don't want anyone to know. 

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Neujohr 

Director: Felix Kalaivanan

(A 2016, Duration: 10 Min.)

By chance, two former schoolmates meet again after a long time in snowy Vorarlberg on the Swiss border. They were friends once. One stayed, the other left. What else have they got to say to each other?

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Entschuldigung, ich suche den Tischtennisraum und meine Freundin

(Excuse me, I'm looking for the ping-pong room and my girlfriend)

Director: Bernhard Wenger

(A 2018, Duration: 23 Min.)

A Swedish couple on a wellness holiday in the Austrian mountains: After an argument, Aron's girlfriend slams the door behind her and disappears. From now on Aron is on the search – for his girlfriend, but also for himself.