»Escape to the other side« was selected by the Austrian Embassy as the Austrian contribution to the EUROPEAN FILMFESTIVAL in Tunis. For the director Ralf Jacobs it is a special honor, that his documentary is shown in Tunisia, where the "Arab revolution" had it's beginning as a sign for the rest of the world.
Filmfestival Tunis: Journées du Cinéma Européen on the 24/11/11
French Premiere at 7pm “ Salle Le Colisée“ in Tunis
Filmfestival Tunis: Journées du Cinéma Européen on the 24/11/11
French Premiere at 7pm “ Salle Le Colisée“ in Tunis
In fall 2007 a crew of young filmmakers set out to produce opening scenes for a dystopian thriller written by director Gregory Glaser. Back then I took the chance to contribute to the short preview of what should become a full feature film in the years to come. Reaching the end of 2011 - several broken relationships, marriages, babies, trips around the world and dozens of other projects later - there is unfortunately no funding for the film. I thought it would be a shame not to show this lost piece of video to anyone. So I restored the unfinished cut, mixed some rough sound, added color grading and put it online. Enjoy what should have become »Moloch«.
»Moloch« is an absurd dystopian tale telling the story of anchoretic and cranky gink Ergen Baad. By mischance Baad finds himself as the last owner of a functioning clock in a world without time. Forced to flee from evil forces he joins an old passenger going by the name of Napoleon who tries to find a way out of the surrounding chaos. Together they start a journey into doom.
Men: Gregor Hengl, Lukas Hengl, Nikolaus Stahl
Leader: Bodo Presslich
God: Hermes Phettberg
Production company: Sancho Pansa Film
Director, Screenplay: Gregory Glaser
Executive Producer: Mag. Marlies Stohl
Cinematography: Gregory Glaser
Set Design: Verena Sander
Costumes: Jenny Enzmann, Katharina Stiglitz
Make-Up: Marianne Lechner, Katharina Fahnl
Editorial and Sound Design: David Arno Schwaiger
Visual FX: Florian Breg
Compositing: Andreas Gebauer
and many more ...
Thomas Draschan's short film »Participation Mystique« will be shown at the Dumbo Arts Festival 2011 as part of Leo Kuelbs Collection on »Immersive Surfaces« in Brooklyn, NY this September. We're looking forward to the festival and can't wait to see our so called »Participation« move over the base of Manhattan Bridge.
Currently working on the editorial for trailer/teaser and EPK for the musical Sister Act - hosted by the Vereinigten Bühnen Wien. The show is based on the early 90ies film starring Whoppie Goldberg and premieres on 15th September 2011 at Ronacher Theater in Vienna. You'll find further info via www.musicalvienna.at
We are happy to announce the completion of Christoph Rainer's film Foal. Farrago contributed to Foal in composing several VFX Shots. While the film already celebrated it's international premiere at the 65th Edinburgh Intl. Film Festival we hope it will - are actually convinced it does - hit even more festivals.
Synopsis: A young woman is awaiting a baby; enthusiastic she hurls herself in her 'new' family, but the man is fearful and uncertain about their marriage. The forced family structures are crumbling away. Feeling refused by her husband the woman is mentally fractured and feels betrayed. She bolts herself in the majestic estate.
with
Lisa Hagmeister, Thomas Mraz, Barbara Petritsch
Director/Script: Christoph Rainer
Producer: Florian Krügel
Camera: Georg Geutebrück
Editor: Fabian Rüdisser
Music: Max Richter
www.foal-film.com
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Emanzipiert, therapiert und ausbalanciert: Klappt es jetzt besser mit unseren intimen Beziehungen? Wie geht das heute, Liebe und Sex? Porno nennt sich ein Projekt, das im Herbst zeitgleich als Theaterstück und Buch erscheint. Anhand von zehn erstaunlich offenherzigen und schonungslos autobiografischen Erzählungen geht die Journalistin und Herausgeberin Ela Angerer der Frage aller Fragen nach — und kommt zu überraschenden Antworten: „Die Art, wie Männer und Frauen über ihre eigene Erotik sprechen, könnte auch 40 Jahre nach der sexuellen Revolution nicht unterschiedlicher sein.“
Am 14. September wird Porno unter ihrer Regie die Eröffnungspremiere im Wiener Rabenhof Theater sein. Die Schauspieler Philipp Hochmair, Manuel Rubey, Robert Palfrader und Jaschka Lämmert haben teilweise eigene Texte zum Stück beigesteuert. Weitere Autoren: Joachim Lottmann, Julya Rabinowich, Barbi Markovic, Christopher Just und Melanie Kretschmann. „Vordergründig geht es natürlich sehr direkt ums Vögeln, Küssen, Schlagen und Lieben“, so Angerer, „in Wirklichkeit aber um die eigene Einsamkeit und um die ewige Suche nach sich selbst.“
Porno, ab 14. September im Rabenhof Theater in Wien, sowie als dritter Band der Buchreihe „Moderne Nerven“ bei Czernin.
with
Jaschka Lämmert, Robert Palfrader, Christopher Just,
Manuel Rubey, Philipp Hochmair and many more
Director: Ela Angerer
Producer: Rabenhof Theater
Camera, Editor David Arno Schwaiger
Music: Christopher Just
www.modernenerven.com
www.czernin-verlag.com
www.rabenhof.at
Participation mystique, or mystical participation, refers to the instinctive human tie to symbolic fantasy emanations. This symbolic life precedes or accompanies all mental and intellectual differentiation.
Bunny: Katharina Oder
Wolf: Hans Jürgen Hauptmann
A film by Thomas Draschan
Producer: Roland Hablesreiter
Masks: Katharina Oder
Editor & Sound: David Arno Schwaiger
Trumpetplayer bannt das beruhigte und wohlüberlegte als auch stark dynamische Spiel eines Trompeters in schwarz-weiß kontrastierte Kader. Wir erleben eine vielschichtige musikalische Leistung - introverse Verspieltheit und Improvisationsfreude gegen ständige technische Herausforderung. Funktionieren sowie Scheitern audiovisuellen Schaffens fluktuieren hier ungleichmäßig und geschwind.
Produktion: Farrago
Trumpetplayer: Form
Musik: Nils Petter Molvær »Vilderness (Pt. 2)«
Regie, Kamera, Schnitt: David Arno Schwaiger
Licht: Club 2
When 25-year-old rapper Ardalan A. alias NAZAR is released after being questioned by police for four weeks, the difficulties he faces are not only of a financial nature. The young Austrian man from an immigrant background is accused of robbery with violence. His friends Vahid and Musti stand by him, but they both have very similar problems. Without qualifications or a job, Ardalan resolves that the only thing he can really do - rapping - will be his vocation; he sets off for Berlin of his own accord to record his second hip-hop album there.
Although this Schwarzkopf (Darkhead) - as he and his friends refer to themselves - emphasizes that he wants to put his past on the street behind him, it all seems too interwoven with his present and his fan-base. A parallel society, caught in a vicious circle which all too often permits of no escape. This is a film about a new generation and their longing for identity.
Produktion: Golden Girls Filmproduktion
Produzenten: Arash T. Riahi, Michael Seeber
Buch & Regie: Arman T. Riahi
Musik: Nazar
gefördert von: Filmfonds Wien, ORF Film/Fernsehabkommen, BM:UKK