Austria 2008, 10 min, language: without dialogue
Constructed like an opera, composed like a football match: at the Roccalba Hotel everything casually ambles along in black and white images. The protagonists keep to themselves and seem to be waiting for something. Or maybe not?

Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2009, Panorama 3

Other presentations:
Viennale 2008
Locarno International Film Festival 2008
Diagonale 2009
Miami Film Festival 2009
Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 2009

Austria 2000, 11 min, language: no dialogue
Fragments of a story from the no-man´s-land. In Josef Dabernig's Jogging, an anonymous driver behind a filthy windshield traverses an increasingly foreign landscape to the accompaniment of Olga Neuwirth's captivating and piercing music. The journey through a faceless land of highways ends at an empty building which seems to have more in common with a flying object than a soccer stadium: futuristic realism, a minimalist musical of the third kind. (Stefan Grissemann)

Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2008, Centre Back and Sweeper

Further presentations:
Diagonale 2000
Istanbul International Short Film Festival 2002
Cinetexas Austin 2000
Chicago Underground Film Festival 2001
Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid 2000
Melbourne International Film Festival 2001
New York Expo of Short Film & Video 2000
Stuttgart Filmwinter 2001

Austria 1996, 8 min, language: no dialogue
Thus Wisla is, in many respects, a successful exercise in the art of well-judged abbreviation. Just as the enormous playing field, (which Dabernig really only indicates), preserves its weight irrespective of all its ridiculous blemishes, the film gives a premonition of lavish future productions. One can hope that it will be just as defective, and that it will derive from a cleverly constructed off-sides trap. (Claus Philipp)

Presented by VIS within the context of:
VIS Vienna Independent Shorts 2008, Centre Back and Sweeper

Further presentations:
Diagonale 1998
Festival Tous Courts Aix-en-Provence 1998
Euro Underground 1998
Semana de Cine Experimental de Madrid 1997
Capalbio Cinema Film Festival 1998
Siena International Short Film Festival 1997
Stuttgart Filmwinter 1998
Winterthur Kurzfilmtage 1997