Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien

All are waiting everywhere

A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day, news was the subject of our conversations, but now it's possible to converse with someone at the other end of the globe. We do it all the time. It's simple. The world has become one big neighborhood. Now Headline News has replaced the back fence. That's the news service of the eigthies. It's a new idea and a new approach.

The Macedonian Soltana is the last original inhabitant of Europe. She still remembers the first automobile: she thought it was a terrible monster. She is neither capable of reading nor writing. At the age of 18, her family takes her to Austria, where she has the opportunity to marry a rich man. No use to think twice about it - Soltana obeys. As a woman, she says, she has no alternative. In Soltana's life no big events took place. But those who look closely are bound to discover tremendous openness and vitality in the small steps of her life.

Three female photojournalists on outside duty. They are supplying interviews with notorious murderers and rapists. On a weekend trip to the idyll of a mountain landscape something strange occurs..

A documentary look behind the scenes at dubbing voices and sound effects. A scene is filmed and then copied three times with different sound effects and dialogues, thereby telling thre different stories.

Two women in two different countries leading different lives. One lives in Austria, one in Yugoslavia, yet their lives become strangely entangled for a moment in time. What if you wake up in somebody else's head and the city around you isn't the one you used to know?

"Studio Schönbrunn" is an ironic play with quotations. Paula Wessely in the Nazi-Wien-Film-production "Heimkehr", Leni Riefenstahl's biography, as well as Nestroy, Mozart, Marx, Frank Sinatra, Jandl. The text is adapted, de-familiarized and de-subjectivized. Consequently, the leading actor shoots the film's author.

Stranger. Strange country. Strange city. Stranger in this city. Man from Sri Lanka. Distributor of brochures. Homestead in this foreign city?

A milieu drama which boldly and thoroughly examines the social and psychological causes of a severely disturbed father-daughter relationship.

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! ― Kobayashi Issa

A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, except that he is sentenced to death and scheduled to be shot in ten minutes. Obviously, he will not get to the end of the story. Based on an unfinished short story by Arthur Schnitzler.

America 1988. After more than 40 years the elderly widow Braine is unexpectedly confronted with her past. She returns to the village of her youth. - Austria 1988. The Border.

Blasius is plagued by the memory of a car accident. He in turn plagues his aunt, until she finally tramples on his favourite toy car. Their tiny Viennese residence becomes jsut too small.

A man wakes up and doesn't know what has happened. Moments of memory and traces, which seem to fall in place, lead him to believe that he has murdered a woman.

Idomeneus, King of Crete, one of the great heroes during the total destruction of the famous city of Troy was sailing back to his realm when a terrible storm broke loose near the city of Sidon. The storm was of such violence that in his fear Idomeneus made a solemn promise to Neptune, God of the Seas, to sacrifice the first person -no matter who it be- that he would meet on the shore if he and his people would only get there safely.

Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory.

Somewhere in America, some time in the thirties, a gangster is fighting for his life, an Italian is fighting for his money, and an Asian is fighting for recognition. Raw fish and seaweed, and Lizzy in the midst of it all...

A gasman at work. A couple who go big-game hunting have a collection of trophies. Daily life in the jungle of the city, biding time and drinking tea.

A permanent disposal site is being sought for toxic waste, and a protest movement develops. A film crew travels through Lower Austria to find out the real implications of the contamination we read about every day in our newspapers.

A petrol pump attendant falls in love with a waitress of the service station restaurant. He manages to get the relationship started and even goes as far as buying her a new pair of shoes, but in the end fails to win her heart.