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I'm curious about what could happen more than about what will happen
(Eduardo Williams)
NEED SOME FILMTIPS? HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS!
MUL-AN-E-SEO
Hong Sangsoo | South Korea 2023 | 61 min | OV w/ GER subtitles
Sunday, October 29: 3.45 pm - Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
A young director and his two collaborators arrive on the touristy island of Jeju to shoot a low budget film seemingly without a script. As they wait for an idea to take shape, they scout banal locations, rehearse simple scenes and share meals together, mostly junk food. Standing on a cold and windy cliff one day, the director notices a woman clearing the beach of the trash tourists have thrown there, leading him to think about the lonely, Sisyphean task of living within a consumerist society in full awareness of the fact. The idea of an underworld, populated by the ghosts repressed by our way of life, discreetly starts to form in our minds. In this film about the making of a film, everything happens not so differently from how we imagine Hong Sangsoo himself works. But the true novelty of his 29th feature and its obvious distinguishing feature is that it is shot almost entirely out-of-focus, to comic and indeterminate effect. Hong never provides a clear explanation for this choice. But one recalls a line from IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE, where the protagonist, in the final months of her life, expresses the desire to live in absolute clarity: an impossible ideal that is also the false promise of our digital world. (Antoine Thirion)
EL ECO
Tatiana Huezo | Germany, Mexico 2023 | 102 min | OV w/ EN subtitles
Sunday, October 29: 11.00 pm - Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
El Eco is a locality of just 100 souls in the state of Puebla, less than 200 kilometres east of Mexico City. Tatiana Huezo’s film of the same name sees her return to her roots as she delves into the daily contingencies of this tiny rural town. Unfolding amidst the idyllic landscape surrounding the village—exquisitely shot by Ernesto Pardo—the individual narratives overlap and mingle with classic bucolic motifs: dreamy-eyed Monse longs for adventure as she cares for her grandmother; a young couple struggles to reconcile the husband’s jobs in a nearby city and the needs of parenting; meanwhile, their children play, ask questions, grow...
The film is primarily a sensorial account woven together in a form akin to a musical composition: a pastorale privileging texture, harmony and timbre over any clear dramaturgy; the various stories flow unassumingly, giving subtle structure to the overall cadence of this tapestry of light, colour and sound. There is an obvious tinge of fabrication to the documentary—in that sense, EL ECO ultimately demonstrates a possible way for Mexican cinema to depict its own countryside with compassion, fluidity and openness, in firm opposition to cruelty and sensationalism. (Salvador Amores)
LA MAISON NUCINGEN
Raúl Ruiz | Chile, France, Romania 2008 | 98 min | OV w/ EN subtitles
Sunday, October 29: 11.00 am - Filmmuseum
At a card game night, a man wins a villa on the edge of the Cordilleras, which he then visits for the first time with his wife. From the very beginning, an eerie, surreal mood hangs over this trip, a ghost appears along the way and the highly neurotic permanent tenants welcome the couple with ambiguous offers. They are monarchists who speak only in the language (French) of the old Viennese court, not the only haunting feature here. "Austrians are all crazy," is said once, and this is particularly true of the boarding house guests, who haunt and drive each other mad in unison with the ghosts of the past. (Robert Weixlbaumer)
SOME OF OUR GUESTS TODAY
Sofia Exarchou
Director of ANIMAL
Voodoo Jürgens
Actor in ANIMAL
Monia Chokri
Director of SIMPLE COMME SYLVAIN
Ignacio Agüero
Actor in LA RECTA PROVINCIA
Anna Hints
Director of SAVVUSANNA SÕSARAD
WAS PASSIERT HEUTE IN DER VIENNALE ZENTRALE?
Talk with Radu Jude
The new Romanian radicalism, this is how one could describe the works of Radu Jude. In brilliant combinations of narrative techniques, historical and literary allusions, absurd jokes and, most recently, the ubiquitous presence of TikTok, Jude analyzes economic colonialism, the communist past and the neoliberal present. A conversation about screenwriting and his style, which he describes himself as a "Bucharest architectural style." Moderation: Roger Koza.
Starts at 6.30 pm - Free Entry!
AND AFTERWARDS IN THE VIENNALE CAMPARI LOUNGE
Party: TEREZA
DJ and radio host Tereza conquers the dance-loving party crowd across Europe. She stands for groovy underground dance music, but also always tells exciting stories with her sets and thus feels at home in the most diverse contexts — whether at the jazz festival or at the club demolition.
From 8.30 pm - Free Entry!
HAVE YOU ALREADY SEEN OUR FESTIVAL VIDEOS?
Many exciting Q&As and talks can be found HERE!
Among others with Catherine Breillat, Jennifer Reeder or Angela Schanelec - and many more!
DEFEAT BLOOD CANCER TOGETHER
For people suffering from leukemia, a stem cell transplant can be life-saving. Therefore, it is important that as many people as possible register for such a donation. Together with the Red Cross, we are organizing a donor registration today, October 29, 2 to 9.30 pm in front of the Gartenbaukino.
More Information (in german) can be found here: https://www.roteskreuz.at/ich-will-helfen/faqs-stammzellspende
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