On Friday, April 1, THIS IS SHORT, our joint streaming portal with three other European short film festivals enters its second round. For three months, you can expect more than 120 extraordinary short films and carefully selected programs with longer availability of each short film and cheaper online passes than last year.

The online passes are available now at thisisshort.com and also allow access to the current online offerings of the four festivals: VIENNA SHORTS, Go Short, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Short Waves Festival.

COMPETITION: NEW POINT OF VIEW

The second edition of the European online competition NEW POINT OF VIEW presents 23 films from 18 countries. First up is The Eternal—an extraordinary work by Finnish duo Pink Twins. Entries also include three works with Austrian participation: Anna Vasof’s Amazon Woman, Hannahlisa Kunyik’s Paukhofstraße and Social Murder by the Averclub Collective are in the running for a total of 6,000 euros in prize money. Each of the films will be online for seven days, with entries released in order.

This year’s jury consists of: Natalia Sielewicz, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Warsaw (PL) focusing on video art, technology and performance; Việt Vũ, Vietnamese-born filmmaker and film critic known for audiovisual works on queer issues and memories of marginalized communities; and Robin Curtis, Canadian film theorist, media scholar and critic with a chair in media and cultural studies at Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg (DE).

FOUR PERSPECTIVES ON MOVEMENT(S)

The FOUR PERSPECTIVES series consists of four film programs with a common theme, offering four perspectives, one curated by each of the four festivals. 2022 is about Movements—metaphorically and literally. All four programs will be available online at THIS IS SHORT for three weeks each, but will also be shown at the cinema at all four festivals.

While the world stands still in the face of the ongoing pandemic, people are finding ways to keep their world spinning and to keep themselves and their reality from standing still. The programs range from changes and concrete movements from within the human body to heavy transports and tectonic plate shifts that make the screen shake, dance and swing. In the VIENNA SHORTS program, everything turns in circles—a thoroughly physical film experience.

News 31.3.2022