Portrait

Since 2006, we have honored exceptional filmmakers and artists with a distinctive cinematic signature through personal tributes and retrospectives. These portraits are often realized in collaboration with the Austrian Film Museum or the Film Archive Austria and can be dedicated to both established stars and emerging talents. What began with Mara Mattuschka, Virgil Widrich, Miranda July, and Chantal Akerman took a stronger animation focus in the early 2010s, featuring artists such as Nicolas Mahler, David OReilly, Don Hertzfeldt, and Bill Plympton. In the following years, the pendulum swung more towards the art world, with spotlights on Anouk De Clercq, Makino Takashi, Martha Colburn, Bjørn Melhus, and Laura Huertas Millán. Most recently, the focus has increasingly shifted towards politically engaged positions.