25 Oct 2021

DAILY: Day 5, October 25, 2021

In our VIENNALE DAILIES you'll find everything you need to know about what's happening around the festival!

"We want to show that banality can also be cinema."

(Lilith Kraxner)

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NEED SOME FILMTIPS FOR TOMORROW? HERE ARE SOME HIGHLIGHTS!

ESQUIRLAS
Natalia Garayalde
30.10.: 21:00 - STADTKINO IM KÜNSTLERHAUS
31.10.: 18:30 - FILMMUSEUM

It seemed like a bombing on the Gaza Strip, a scene of terror that we imagine as being characteristic of faraway countries. Yet this was an incident took place in an Argentine city in the province of Córdoba in 1995: an explosion in a military arms factory that had devastating consequences. There was debris and dust, there were wounded people and corpses, and, with the passing of time, there was the perpetuation of trauma and illness. No one in the small city of Río Tercero has ever forgotten that fateful day, but director Natalia Garayalde finds an intimate perspective on this collective memory by focusing upon a single painful family history, thus intensifying its universal emotional force and adding political foresight.
All memory is invariably a labor of montage. And it is exactly this detailed work on these scattered memories that comes into play as all the material filmed by the members of this serious amateur filmmaking family is reorganized, whether from before or after this episode, acquiring decades later an additional layer of truth and bringing the force of the past into the present in order to understand how one can film a feeling. (Roger Koza)

In the presence of Natalia Garayalde and Eva Cáceres (producer).

MARINHEIRO DAS MONTANHAS
Karim Aïnouz
29.10.: 18:30 - FILMMUSEUM
30.10.: 21:15 - URANIA

In MARINHEIRO DAS MONTANHAS, the Brazilian filmmaker travels to Algeria, the land where his father was born, to get to know the place and learn more about his origins. It is a classic moment in the life of anyone who reaches a certain age: the need to find out more about the history of their family. And even more so in cases like Aïnouz’s, in which travels, disappearances, and mysteries have obscured much of the story. The film is structured like a travel diary. There isn’t (or doesn’t seem to be) a film crew. It’s the director, camera in hand, capturing his experiences that begin when he arrives in Algiers and has to deal with suspicious looks from the authorities and people on the streets. Little by little, he starts to feel more and more “at home” as he goes deeper into the local customs, meeting people and giving space to their testimonies on camera. Alongside the journey that Karim undertakes to the small town where his father was born and in which some distant relatives still live, MARINHEIRO will also tell the story of his family. The “technical” limitations of this type of shooting are not annoying or uncomfortable. Rather, they perfectly capture what is ultimately a revealing experience. (Diego Lerer)

DIÁRIOS DE OTSOGA
Miguel Gomes, Maureen Fazendeiro
27.10.: 20:15 - STADTKINO KÜNSTLERHAUS
28.10.: 16:00 - URANIA

This collaboration between documentarian Maureen Fazendeiro and Miguel Gomes is called DIÁRIOS DE OTSOGA in Portuguese. But don’t bother looking up “Otsoga” or “Tsugua” – they spell “August/ Agosto” backwards, which gives a measure of the playfulness of this singular experiment in Covid-era cinema. Shot in lockdown in late summer 2020, the film starts backwards and moves through 22 days, beginning with a scene in which three people – Crista, Carloto, João – have a private party, dancing to the Four Seasons’ “The Night”.
As their story opens out and reverses through time, we realize that the location is a rural hotel, where the trio are busy building a butterfly house. As more characters appear – or, reading things backwards, disappear – the trio emerge as actors in a film being shot by Fazendeiro and Gomes.
Playing similar metafilmic games to Gomes’s 2008 OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST, this film chips insouciantly away at cinema’s fourth wall, hinting at happenstance but constantly showing how much planning is built into (and confounded by) the shooting process. Joyous, playful, yet irreducibly melancholic, this is a commentary on time’s passing, touched by real magic. Lockdown cinema that unlocks a world of possibilities. (Jonathan Romney)

In the presence of Miguel Gomes and Maureen Fazendeiro.

SOME OF OUR GUESTS TODAY:

Nadav Lapid
Director of
HA'BERECH

Judith Lou Lévy
Producer of
HA'BERECH

Rafael Palacio Illingworth
Director of
VIDA COMIENZA, VIDA TERMINA

Bruno Dumont
Director of
FRANCE

Avi Mograbi
Director of
THE FIRST 54 YEARS -
AN ABBREVIATED MANUAL
FOR MILITARY OCCUPATION

Bruno Dumont
Director of
FRANCE

Gaspar Noé
Director of
VORTEX

Dane Komljen
Director of
PHANTASIESÄTZE

Julien Faraut
Director of
LES SORCIÈRES DE L’ORIENT

WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THE VIENNALE BAR TODAY?

MO, 25.10.

BAR: Woxow (Little Beat More)
CLUB: DJ Lars Eidinger (Autistic Disco/!K7)

VIDEO OF THE DAY

Alexandre Koberidze & Team after the screening of RAS VKHEDAVT, RODESAC CAS VUKUREBT? talking to Patrick Holzapfel.

HAVE YOU SEEN OUR NEW FORMAT V'CASTS?

In our V'Casts Eva Sangiorgi, Roger Koza & Patrick Holzapfel talk to guests of the Viennale.

Viennale Direktorin Eva Sangiorgi | © Viennale/Alexi Pelekanos

ANNOUNCEMENT: INSTAGRAM TAKEOVER

Today, October 25, our festival direcor Eva Sangiorgi will take over our Instagram account! Exciting and exclusive sneak peaks into the festival life are guaranteed - so make sure to follow @viennale_official!