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VIS Vienna Independent Shorts

das 5. internationale Kurzfilmfestival in Wien
16.-23. Mai

Tributes

Tribute to Ben Rivers

May 15th, 2009, 7 p.m. - Top Kino; repeat: May 19th, 2009, 5 p.m. - Top Kino
Tracks in the snow, mysterious huts, a deserted yard. Children playing and creatures meandering out of the forest. Ben Rivers’s films open up scope for ideas and dreams. Rivers is a master of the mysterious, the sinister, while also being personal and perceptive.
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Tribute to Norbert Pfaffenbichler / Lotte Schreiber

May 19th, 2009, 7 p.m. - Top Kino
Structural approach, propensity to mathematical minimalism and a penchant for clear shapes and lines. To a certain degree Pfaffenbichler and Schreiber also indulge in this penchant in those films that came into being outside of their artistic collaboration: although the approach becomes more narrative and the styles differ from one another considerably, the mostly very precise quest for form and the highly analytical and detailed modus operandi are very present here as well.
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