After the end of the pandemic curfew in Vienna, our late night program is finally moving back to where it belongs: the dark movie theater. We’ll be gathering at Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus for three late evenings with obligatory Vienna Shots (see what we did there?), iconic music videos, high-energy dance films and feverish thrillers.

Into The Groove

After two years in the digital space, our international music video highlights finally make their way back to the big screen under the new title Into the Groove (sorry for the Madonna earworm). The varied program tries to give a cross-section of the current creative output and, by the way, is also a lot of fun to dive into the meticulously designed worlds of the various videos. We race with Rosalía over the most famous bridge of Kyiv, dive with Arca into eerily beautiful spheres and dance with Mitski ecstatically through space and time.

Nightmares

A deer in the woods, a hole that must be dug, a ravenous creature living in the attic. Feverish nightmares of a troubled colonial past and a bit too much of the type of masculinity that serves none. Day in, day out, they call out, make their claim: obsess, ruminate, serve. This year our Nightmares take on the topic of power, force and obsession through five thriller shorts, ranging from slow-burning nail-biters to surreal horrors with lush visuals and a pinch of hearty humor. With films from both newcomers and VIENNA SHORTS regularts, this program promises an evening of feverish suspense, lush filmmaking and even a smile at the corner of your lips.

Dancing Screen

Dancing as an expression of solidarity and resilience, as a search for safe spaces, always closely linked to places and the immediate environment: From the persecuted LGBTQ+ community in the Chechen regions of Russia, we move to the concrete ruins of Seattle, accompany a Puerto Rican drag queen in Manhattan and Ukrainian youth on their nocturnal escape from everyday life—and again and again we end up in New York, where between ballroom performance and street eclecticism we can claim a sense of belonging and see what it means to be a moving/living human being.

News 2.5.2022