Tiere

The desire for knowledge was a driving force behind Eadweard Muybridge's (animal) movement studies and thus the birth of chronophotography as a precursor to cinema. Animals have always been protagonists in film, even in its experimental manifestations: as strange creatures, as objects of study and as mirrors for man's own bestiality. A programme of encounters. (gw)

LIVING COLLECTION sixpackfilm

After 25 years of mediation work, sixpackfilm's collection brings together a rich selection of all genres, represented by more than 1,500 film works that call out to be shown regularly in Vienna in various contexts. One focus of our collection is on the classics of Austrian experimental film, almost all of which are represented. Many of the historical works are now part of the canon of international film or art history and have a permanent place in international cinemas and museums. The reopening of the Metro Kinokulturhaus and the intimate atmosphere of the Eric Pleskow Hall inspired sixpackfilm to enter into this long-term co-operation with the Filmarchiv Austria.

Short fiction films, avant-garde films, animations, cinematic essays, documentaries and much more that oscillates between these categories will be brought together in individual programmes in the Living Collection sixpackfilm series, not neatly separated according to the usual categorisations. Rather, the focus is on the search for thematic connections, developments, different perspectives and connecting lines, sometimes also in the context of international filmmaking. Historical and contemporary "classics" meet works by filmmakers who have not yet or no longer received the attention they deserve.

Socio-political, social and aesthetic issues interact with purely formal experiments. Radical or actionist performances are combined with surreal stories, commissioned works for trailers or TV with abstract beauties. A lively montage, not a fixed history of masterpieces. The unifying element in all the films and videos is their unmistakable, idiosyncratic visual grammar. When we offer a personal screening of works by a filmmaker, a mediating discussion with the artist will bring their themes and cinematic realisation closer to the audience. Otherwise, the film event is accompanied by a short introduction on the first Monday of every month. 

(Brigitta Burger-Utzer)

Program
every body (Michaela Grill, 2014, DCP, 1 min.)
Postcard from Somova, Romania (Andreas Horvath, 2011, DCP, 20 min.)
RaumZeitHund (Nikolaus Eckhard, 2010, 35mm, 6 min.)
Ground Control (Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 2008, video, 2 min.)
KOI (Tina Hochkogler (tinhoko), 2010, video, 8 min.)
T.R.3.O.P.S. (Angela Christlieb, 2016, DCP, 4 min.)
Last Lost (Eve Heller, USA 1996, 16mm, 14 min.)
Unsere Afrikareise (Peter Kubelka, 1966, 16mm, 13 min.)
Empört Euch! (Friedl vom Gröller, 2014, 16mm, 3 min.)