AUSTRIAN COMPETITION

In a trimmed down selection new Austrian films from 2019 and 2020 are competing for the “Radar Austria Award”, the “Hubert Sielecki Award” and the ”Angewandte Animation Award” for students.

Two dentists are in conflict with each other because of their differences, but learn that they benefit from each other’s quirks and overcome their ill will.

Student Project

The story focuses around a crow in a paper world who finds himself flying for its life to escape a bigger predator. Unexplainable things happen to the bird during the chase…

Student Project

Employing the method of single frame editing, primarily focused on sound, the realistic film image transforms into a surreal, structuralist and finally even abstract film. It creates a musical composition while experimenting with the human voice and transforming language into sound and music.

New figurative abstraction, “Fear Not”, by Patrick K.-H. and bestbefore, shares a story thread with music of Larhythmix – stylistic rabbit hole to go down.

We are always special when we start: the lyrical text “First” works with descriptions and critical considerations of the current western world and consciously combines them with quotes from the classic lyrical canon and old myths from a time in which the world was still in order. Archaic images and an abundance of Quotes from fairy tale and legendary literature. The image of the beginning reverses as an important structural element and combines the different texts into a large, whole fabric.

Fish for Life tells the story of Manolin, an outdated fisherman who lives in Norway. He has not caught anything in weeks. Manolin lives for his work. Unfortunately, he can no longer keep up with the new technology and also rejects it strictly.

Student Project

Like hypnotized humans always make the same mistakes. It’s a vicious circle, a loop with no escape.

Student Project

Hedi is experiencing strange things. While her granddaughter is visiting, she suddenly embarks on a hiking journey, to the deepest parts of the Alps, revealing the reason for her devoted attachment to her hiking shoes.

Student Project

So this time we observe some male bodies, we will see nature, things that will turn us upside down. Things, a little weird now and then. But be sure within all this: it wasn’t meant to be sexy.

Neo surreal fighters use noise pipes to bring balance on earth.

Several patients are waiting in a doctor’s office to hear test results regarding their remaining lifetimes. In most cases, the allotted time is not as long as they had hoped for.

Student Project

“Rats in the Walls” is a short animation that is inspired by one of H.P.Lovecraft’s most gripping horror tales.

Student Project

The film is a poem performed by Ghanaian, queer-feminist poet and artist Brenda Bakomora from Accra. Visual companions of her words are snakes- a symbol of love, seduction, death of the old and rebirth- as well as the short time of a blossoming flower.

How neighbours are in relationship together and their problems.

Student Project

“Time o´ the Signs” is an experimental – narrative but also documentary – animation about digital time thieves of our time, media stupidities and ongoing daily routines.

After a long journey of searching and straying around a man finds himself in a cycle from which there seems to be no way out.

The protagonist, a photographer, is helping his inspiration during a photo shoot with a white substance. Suddenly he can see reality in a different way. Is it not what it appeared to be?

Student Project

Worm Employee K is working happily for a finance corporation. Suddenly he receives an E-Mail which tells him that he is immediately fired. He goes into the basement to get his stuff from his locker. There he hears a very odd noise coming from the ventilation shaft.

Student Project