The Mozart - Minute

Directors Houchang Allahyari, Ruth Beckermann, Songül Boyraz, Sabine Derflinger, Gustav Deutsch ir Hanna Schimek, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Michael Glawogger, Wolfgang Gluck, Barbara Graftner ir David Wagner, Jessica Hausner, Edgar Honetschlager, Michael Kreihsl, Paulus Manker, Mara Matuschka, Bady Minck, Michael Palm, Peter Patzak, Lisl Ponger, Ferry Radax, Goran Rebic, Thomas Renoldner, Anja Salomonowitz, Michaela Schwentner, Ulrich Seidl, Tim Sharp, Peter Tscherkasky

30 min. · Austria, 2006 · Documentary · German · Subtitles: Lithuanian, English · N/A

About the film

In 2006, in Mozart’s year in Vienna, the artistic director of the program, Peter Marboe, invited 28 directors to Austria and asked each of them to make a one-minute film inspired by the composer’s 250th birthday. Austria’s most famous animators, experimenters, documentary and feature filmmakers have created a collection of associative miniatures that testify to the strength of Austrian independent cinema.

Details

Running time: 30 min.
Country, year: Austria, 2006
Genre: Documentary
Language: German
Subtitles: Lithuanian, English
Age rating: N/A

Credits

Director: Houchang Allahyari, Ruth Beckermann, Songül Boyraz, Sabine Derflinger, Gustav Deutsch ir Hanna Schimek, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Michael Glawogger, Wolfgang Gluck, Barbara Graftner ir David Wagner, Jessica Hausner, Edgar Honetschlager, Michael Kreihsl, Paulus Manker, Mara Matuschka, Bady Minck, Michael Palm, Peter Patzak, Lisl Ponger, Ferry Radax, Goran Rebic, Thomas Renoldner, Anja Salomonowitz, Michaela Schwentner, Ulrich Seidl, Tim Sharp, Peter Tscherkasky
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Director

Houchang Allahyari

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Ruth Beckermann

Ruth Beckermann is an Austrian filmmaker and writer, living between Vienna and Paris. Her films have been screened at prestigious festivals, most premiering at the Berlin International Film Festival or Cinéma du Réel in Paris. Her films Paper Bridge and East of War have won several major awards.

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Songül Boyraz

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Sabine Derflinger

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Gustav Deutsch ir Hanna Schimek

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Siegfried A. Fruhauf

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Michael Glawogger

Wim Wenders was born in Germany in 1945. He is well-known filmmaker, author, photographer. After two years of studying medicine and philosophy and a yearlong stay in Paris as a painter he attended the University of Television and Film in Munich from 1967 to 1970. Made his feature directorial debut with Summer in the City (1970). He gained recognition with very successful features Alice in the Cities (1973), The American Friend (1977), Paris, Texas (1984), Wings of Desire (1987) and Faraway, So Close (1993). Wenders has directed several highly acclaimed documentaries, most notably Buena Vista Social Club (1998), Pina (2011). Michael Glawogger was born in Graz, Austria, in 1959. He studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Film Academy Vienna. Whores’ Glory completed his trilogy of essayist documentaries in 2011. He is currently on a one year travel around the world for his new documentary Untitled. Michael Madsen was born in Copenhagen,Denmark in 1972. He studied art history and works as a filmmaker and conceptual artist. Founder and artistic leader of the Sound/Gallery in Copenhagen. His documentary Into Eternity (2010) provides a glimpse into the world’s first final nuclear waste facility. Robert Redford was born in Santa Monica, USA, in 1936. He is an actor, film director, producer, and environmentalist. In 1981 he received an Oscar for his directorial debut Ordinary People and in 2001 an honorary Oscar. Margreth Olin was born in Norway, in 1970. She studied journalism and documentary filmmaking in Bergen and Oslo. She directs and produces documentaries and feature films and stages theatre plays. Her work focuses on social and political issues. Her first feature The Angel was the Norwegian Oscar entry in 2010. Her most recent documentary Nowhere Home received the Norwegian Film Award 2013. Karim Aïnouz was born in Brazil, in 1966. He studied architecture in Brazil and film in New York. He directs fiction and documentary films and teaches script writing. His art installations have been exhibited widely. His directorial debut Madame Sata screened in Un Certain Regard in Cannes in 2002.

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Wolfgang Gluck

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Barbara Graftner ir David Wagner

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Jessica Hausner

Jessica Hausner began her career with the short film Flora (1996), which won the Leopard of Tomorrow at the Locarno Festival. Inter-view, her graduation film at the Filmacademy Vienna, won the Prix du Jury of the Cinéfondation at the Cannes Film Festival in 1999. Three of her feature films have been presented in Un Certain Regard in Cannes, while Lourdes (2009) has been awarded the FIPRESCI Prize in Venice.