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- Slavoj Zizek examines famous films in a philosophical and a psychoanalytic context.
- A personal essay about the United States, viewed through the life and work of a movie actor. Henry Fonda and the roles he played merge into a dazzling and conflicted figure. A very private man who thought he had "no good answers to anything" becomes the unlikely motor of a parallel history. His voice, recorded during his last interview in 1981, and his onscreen avatars guide us through America's past and present - on a road trip from the village of Fonda, NY, across the Midwest to the Pacific; from 1651 to the 1980s and the presidency of another movie actor. It takes many places and times and characters to imagine an invisible republic - the United States of Fonda.
- The story of the German antifascist and pacifist John Heartfield, who pioneered the use of ART AS A POLITICAL WEAPON. A young Graphic Designer and an animated cartoon figure take us on a journey through Heartfields eventful times.
- Humans are analogue! We're literally sick of the digital world engulfing us. People are yearning for real things and authenticty. IMPOSSIBLE is sensuous and inspiring film about the revenge of analog. And the eccentric, crazy Austrian scientist, who saved the world's last Polaroid factory - just when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. An entertaining underdog story of a very modern Don Quixote, shot on 35mm. And a sumptuous invitation to fall in love with real things again. (Like sending you a beautifully typed application form on nice paper, rather than this cold tech template)
- For many, the Alterlaa residential park remains the manifestation of a residential utopia. In the stories of the residents, the filmmaker traces her own memories and thus creates a playful portrait of the here and now.
- Czechoslovakian photographer seeks freedom after 1968 Prague Spring suppression. Undertakes long journey to break from repressive regime's constraints.
- A Face, a Tag Line, an Invention. Two facets that don't seem to belong to the same woman. A Hollywood star as an ingenious inventor piques our curiosity. The director Georg Misch is interested in how truth and myth intertwine. He listens to stories about her told by people who knew her. He dissects the history of the woman with the exotic eroticism who not only made surprising and daring decisions in her private life, but who caused a sensation with an intrepid film project right from the start. What is left? her first film Ecstasy with its scandalous nude scenes, movies that nobody has seen or heard of, a sixty-year-old son who is still struggling with his relationship to his mother, an invention whose patent ran out too soon, so that what has become a cornerstone for wireless communications, which are in constant use in our everyday lives, brought its inventor late fame but never earned her any money. At the end of the day what lingers is the echo of her fascinating beauty. The way the film handles the archive material from various sources reflects the inner conflicts of a Hollywood diva whose other talent as a mathematical genius and inventor was not allowed to unfold so as not to endanger her aura as a successful goddess of the silver screen. As we peel away the convolution of myths that grew up about her while she was still alive what gradually emerges is the portrait of a modern woman beyond the Hollywood star. In the last decades of her life the telephone became her only means of communication with the outside world, even with her children and close friends. She often talked up to six or seven hours a day on the phone, but she hardly spent any time with anyone in person in her final years. For this reason, though also of course because of the significance of her invention to modern communications, the telephone has been chosen as the "structuring motif" of the movie. The interviews in the movie have been staged as telephone calls and lead the viewer through time like a nostalgic conference with the film's protagonists. Calling Hedy Lamarr isn't, however, a portrait; it is above all a film about the Hollywood diva from the perspective of her son Anthony Loder, a fairly successful telephone dealer in Los Angeles who wants desperately to be the Hollywood producer of a feature film about the life of his mother. Through his research he encounters contradictory statements and fantastic theories. There is often only a fine line between truth and lie. Many times the conversations between him and the other protagonists shift and take on a magical aspect, and in a supernatural way Hedy Lamarr sometimes even seems to join in. The Hollywood diva's purported schizophrenia is expressed dramaturgically as a persistent shifting between the extremes of her character and is a strong pattern in the film. The meaning of truth must be constantly reinterpreted. Lamarr's death in February 2000 marked the end of one of the most complex Hollywood biographies of the last century. The film ends where Hedy Lamarr's story began: in Vienna. In her will she asks that her ashes be strewn in the Vienna Woods. A homecoming she always dreamed of but which she never managed to make during her lifetime.
- A self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars from the Austrian Alps to his native Nigeria. As he pursues his lonely day-to-day activities with wondrous serenity, past, present and future begin to overlap.
- Interviews with military cooks from various European armies.
- In search of a story, a German film crew ends up in El Alberto, Mexico, where villagers re-enact illegal border crossings to the USA based on the experiences of the locals.
- A personal film about grief and farewell, about serenity and arrival as well as reunion and retrieval.
- A documentary about the "King of B-Movies", Edgar G. Ulmer. It includes interviews with well-known filmmakers Roger Corman, Peter Bogdanovich, Wim Wenders, Joe Dante, and Ulmers's daughter, Arianne Ulmer.
- In the early 1920s the Austrian Leopold Weiss left his Jewish roots behind, converted to Islam and changed his name to Muhammad Asad. He became one of the most important Muslims of the 20th century, first as an advisor at the royal court of Saudi Arabia, and later translating the Koran into English. Asad was also a co-founder of Pakistan and its ambassador to the UN. The director follows his fading footsteps, leading from the Arabian desert to Ground Zero. He finds a man who was not looking for adventures but rather wanted to act as a mediator between East and West. "A Road To Mecca" takes this opportunity to deal with a heated debate which is currently becoming more and more important.
- Christmas Day 1960. After five years of imprisonment a young man escapes in a snowy winter night with a file and linen from Britain's safest prison in Belfast. Chasing him: an army forced by 12.000 policemen and soldiers. However, they never caught him. Danny Donnelly became secretary to Sinn Fein, aged 16. At the age of 17 he was interned without trial, then jailed for 10 years on the sole charge of membership of an illegal organisation. Four years later he escaped. He was never a member of the Provisional IRA and his story has nor been told before. 50 years to the day of his escape, Danny travels back to Northern Ireland and retraces the footsteps of his escape. A film dealing with one man's story set against the backdrop of the conflict in Northern Ireland from the perspective of faith, hope and forgiveness.
- Focus On Infinity is a cinematic journey to the places, people and machines that are involved in exploring the origin of our cosmos and of our existence. It is a very personal and intuitive investigation into the roots and boundaries of our imagination dominated by sensual perception. Not unlike an adventure, the film dares to voyage into the unknown, to the structures of our intellectual capacity and drive to explore. It focuses on the restlessness that characterizes the natural sciences, which drives research with increasing technological advancement and financial resources, and underpins the never-ending human ambition to fully understand our world.
- TV SeriesExamines the consequences of war In Russia and ukraine
- God and Fatherland narrates the extraordinary stories of Muslims serving in the Austrian Army, more specifically the story of an emancipated Muslim woman and the story of a convert. Two completely different interpretations of a faith, two different views on what it means to be an Austrian citizen, two different reasons to serve the "fatherland" as a soldier.
- ICH MUSS DIR WAS SAGEN is a documentary film about the 4-year old twin brothers Oskar and Leo. Oskar has been deaf since birth, Leo has unimpaired hearing. Both are growing up with a shared language that develops in silence: sign language. Over the course of a year the young filmmaker Martin Nguyen has observed the twins from up close and from their perspective, watching them grow and discover a world that they are getting to know through sign language. The film examines what the diagnosis "deaf" means to Oskar's hearing parents, Sandra and Stefan. The cochlear implant that could enable Oskar to hear has been an issue since his birth, but for the time being his parents have decided to take sign language classes and to raise the children in what is for them a foreign language. Leo is being brought up bilingual, with sign language and spoken language. For Oskar, however, sign language is his essential form of expression - his mother tongue.
- In a Western theme park near Vienna, a handful of 'residents' (the people who work there) are living on the small line between reality and fiction.
- Lisl Goldarbeiter and Marci Tenczer -born in 1908- were cousins and knew each other since early childhood. The Goldarbeiters lived in Vienna and belonged to the Austrian wing of a large Austro-Hungarian Jewish family. The Tenczer's lived in Szeged, and formed the Hungarian wing. The family ties between Vienna and Szeged never ceased. Marci moved to Vienna in 1926, to study. The first anti-Semitic law in Europe, the Hungarian Numerous Clauses of 1922, made it impossible for Jews to enter a University in Hungary. Marci lived in the house of the Goldarbeiters and studied at the Technical University from 1926-1936. Marci secretly loved his cousin Lisl. He started to make films of her, her family and Vienna shortly after his arrival. He was very poor but succeeded in saving cash for his film hobby by walking the city, instead of taking the tram. In 1929, without telling anybody, Marci caused Lisl's entry into the world of beauty; and she became world famous.
- As times harden in the Arab world, people have begun to recall the greatest diva of all time: Asmahan, the Syrian princess who emigrated to Egypt in the twenties and became an entertainer. Today, traces of the Cairo that Asmahan once loved are difficult to find in the blanket of apathy that weighs on the city. It was in Cairo that Asmahan sang her famous song "Euphoric Nights in Vienna"(1944), in which she manufactured an Arab fantasy for the European city. Today, many Arabs go to Vienna in search of the dream whispered to them by the greatest diva. But things are not quite that simple. Asmahan is not the angel everyone imagines her to be. Behind her angelic face are dark secrets, and it is time we stopped being manipulated by Asmahan's unbearable presence.
- Zhanna und Lyosha are survivors. The couple, now in their mid-thirties, became heroin addicts in the turbulent years of upheaval in Russia. They know their days are numbered, and pit their frail zest for life and gallows humor against this fact. The film draws on these moments and offers an intimate portrayal of a fragile and ambivalent love affair.
- Gutenberg's life and the laborious process of the invention and development of the printing press in the 15th century.
- Marko and Atanas are two friends whose lives would be sweet as strudel but for an annoying little problem with their papers. They need a European passport and they are prepared to do almost anything to get one, including buying a wife. With nothing but their brass necks and 7,000 euros, they set out to find the woman of their dreams - one who will walk them down aisle and then hang around long enough for the divorce. An odyssey through Vienna's immigrant netherworld, this real-life Green Card is an hilarious and touching insight into what it takes to jump the barriers of Fortress Europe.
- Director: "Just as I thought that I could finally put my feelings for my parents and my origins to rest, my father decided to leave me his crumbling farmhouse. This stone inheritance is supposed to tie me again to the place where I grew up. It is supposed to bring me closer to my parents again. I have trouble breathing as I realise that my journey to understand my family has only just started."
- People from different nations attend integration classes to learn the values and the culture of Vienna.
- Russian biggest summer resort Sotchi has been chosen the venue of the Winter Olympic Games of 2014. President Putin has promised enough snow for the Games, no traffic jams and big investments in building the Olympic facilities. How it will effect the neighboring small villages and if they succeed to survive and keep the living pace they are used to?
- A series looking for old handicraft traditions in the hand of young, innovative master craftspeople. Craftsmanship has a long history and in a state of flux it has often been declared dead. What drives young people to devote themselves to old crafts? Has a trend for crafts emerged? Is it simply a lifestyle or just in fashion? Does society even need hand-made goods? Isn't that just luxury for the privileged? Or do those new ideas coupled with old craftsmanship stand for sustainability, quality and beauty?
- Schweitzer is the modern day saint of the 20th century, the emblematic jungle doctor that saved lives in Africa. A Peace Nobel Prize laureate who created the concept of "Reverence for Life", excelling as medical doctor, musician, theologian, philosopher, and development worker. Exploring the staunch admiration as well as the criticism that made Schweitzer either a saint or a sinner, the film will discover the real person behind the icon. And thus reveal Schweitzer's legacy that might be more up to date than we realize, in the context of global warming, continuing warfare and nuclear threat.
- A car that runs on used vegetable oil, a mobile stove and a host of culinary ideas in his backpack: Wastecooking - Make Food, Not Waste is an entertaining road movie detailing a journey through five European countries, where the only thing on the menu is what others call garbage. David, the host of Wastecooking - Make Food, Not Waste, whips up creative meals aimed at fighting food waste and our consumption-driven society, and at the same time inspire us to search for creative solutions. David Gross travels through five European countries on a quest for treasure. According to the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization FAO, one third of all food produced around the world ends up in the garbage, roughly 89 million tons of food a year in Europe alone. David seeks out places where waste happens and asks: How can we save food that would otherwise go to waste and transform it into delicious recipes? Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium and France are all on the menu. On his journey he rescues food from becoming trash, and in every country he meets committed activists with ideas on how to combat waste. On board are gourmet chefs, scientists and connoisseurs who team up to create sumptuous waste cuisine in protest against our consumption-driven society. David gets a look behind the scenes of the European Parliament's cafeteria and even the refrigerators of everyday residents of the city of Salzburg. He cooks up a fresh bouillabaisse made from by-catch on a French fishing boat, invites people to participate in a "Schnippeldisko" in Berlin and combs Mother Nature for edible delectables. All the while, he compiles an innovative culinary travel guide with clever and delicious meals made from all sorts of rescued and collected food. With him on his journey is his trademark garbage dumpster, which he rebuilt into a mobile cooking stove, and his waste-mobile, which only runs on used vegetable oil. Wastecooking - Make Food, Not Waste is a biting self-experiment. It also offers inspiration for embarking on less travelled paths and getting to know and appreciate food from a different angle. And naturally for transforming it into creative dishes.
- The best subject matter is often only just a few steps away. Director Michael Schindegger has been living with his father and brothers in an apartment building in the second district of Vienna, Leopoldstadt, at house 'No. 7', for thirty years. However, he hardly knows any of his neighbors. He decides to change all that just before marrying his fiancée and moving out. Camera in hand he rings all of their doorbells and introduces himself to the building's multi-lingual, primarily Jewish residents.
- The "digital revolution" reached the cinema late and was chiefly styled as a technological advancement. Today, in an era where analog celluloid strips are disappearing, and given the diversity of digital moving picture formats, there is much more at stake: Are the world's film archives on the brink of a dark age? Are we facing the massive loss of collective audiovisual memory? Is film dying, or just changing?
- A documentary set in Berlin about people who are active at nighttime, either because they can't sleep, have a job that requires them to work at night, or who are simply more active after the sun goes down. The film looks at the many the different angles of what it means to live and work in darkness. Director Ivette Löcker's award-winning documentary is a declaration of love for the night.
- A filmic hommage to the distinguished Viennese cameraman and photographer, Wolf Suschitzky. On the occasion of his 95th birthday, the youthful emigrant tells of his international success, including the work he did on the classic British film GET CARTER.
- Photographer Erich Lessing documented contemporary history with his pictures. His photograph of Leopold Figl standing on the balcony of the Belvedere palace presenting the signed Austrian State Treaty in May 1955 has been forever etched in Austria's collective memory. Lessing, a member of the legendary photographic agency Magnum, is one of the most important photojournalists of the post-war era: His pictures of the Hungarian Revolution are contemporary documents that are as artistic as his portraits of European politicians, such as Konrad Adenauer and Nikita Khrushchev. In The Photographer in Front of the Camera, Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel accompany the still very active 90-year old and take the time to focus on the details - as Lessing believes artistic photography must. Small gestures and brief glimpses give the film a special charm, such as when the great photographer, when tying his tie, laments that the Windsor knot has gone out of fashion, and the fact that he preserves his analogue photographs in a digital archive. Good photography inspires us to continue reflecting on it, states Lessing. Similarly, The Photographer in Front of the Camera invites its audience to view the works of this extraordinary artist in a new light as well.
- The inner diremption of a man caught between two extremes is the centre point of PHARAO BIPOLAR. The film follows the different states of Buchmayer's alternating psychosis. It shows fragments of an artist's biography and a story of illness at the same time. Also the reactions of his environment and the society in general are in main focus. Questions like "Who is crazy and who is normal?" are coming up constantly.
- An airstrip, a hangar and a classroom somewhere in rural Ghana: This is the place where 18-year-old Lydia and 20-year-old Esther hope to achieve their dream: learning how to fly.
- Camels are the legendary ships of the desert. They are masters of the art of survival in the harshest climates on earth and can go for up to ten months without a drop of water. Then they drink 200 litres in only 10 minutes and are even capable of digesting saltwater. Camels are also one of the oldest domesticated animals and share a 5000 year close and intertwined history with us. Through their domestication as beasts of burden they laid the foundations for ancient long-distance trade and became the backbone of the legendary salt and incense caravans. For the first time, camels made it possible for humans to bridge distances of several thousand kilometres across the most hostile landscapes in the world. Today, camels are still the most important source of milk, meat, leather, wool and fuel in large parts of Africa and for the Nomads of Arabia. Because of this, the Bedouins call the camel Al-Ata Allah, the gift of God. Along the way, the ORF/Universum-documentary looks at the co-existence between camels and mankind over the centuries and asks what relevance these astonishing animals have for us today.
- 2015–TV EpisodeDavid begins his journey from Austria to visit Vienna and Salzburg, and before long, he discovers some very interesting "dirty" little secrets.
- 2015–TV EpisodeDavid visits Germany to demonstrate how the edible urban fruits and wild plants can be part of our diet and deals with a kind of food waste that is often overlooked.
- 2015–TV EpisodeAs the journey continues in the Netherlands, David gets a taste of the city's snacks and takes a look at the future of nutrition.
- In the fifth and final stop in this amazing waste-cooking journey throughout Europe, David will deal with the matter of the rejected by-catch while contemplating the future of his quest.
- 2015–TV EpisodeIn an attempt to reduce kitchen waste, David visits the European Parliament in Belgium, where almost 150kg out of 4000 meals served daily, end up in the bin.