Vienna Independent Shorts Festival at the NDU International Student Film Festival

The following films will be screened:

Trespass
Director: Paul Wenninger
Cast: Paul Wenninger, Michael Dornhauser, Rotraud Kernua
Running Time: 11 min
It is an invasion of the exterior world, crossing the borders between humans and the world, subject and object. In the guise of an avatar, the director embarks on a round-the-world trip without leaving his own home. While the background is constantly changing its images, colours and materiality, the body remains the only constant factor. Instead of perceiving himself, the protagonist is only aware of the distant outside world, until he finally reaches a U-turn that makes his own blood become palpable. Technical finesse makes this real animation so impressive – it plays with carriers of meaning, which reveal one’s own traits in the others.

Family Holidays
Director: Kurdwin Ayub
Running Time: 22 min
The first shot is a classic: the view through a car window to a petrol station in a desert. In 17 scenes Kurdwin Ayub captures impressions of her holiday with relatives in Iraq. The father, who sings in front of the camera or enthusiastically gives account of the country’s development; the sisters, who spend their time on their exercise bike; the close-up of a cockroach. These home-video-episodes give an insight into the filmmaker’s family with an impressive sense of dramaturgy, while at the same time depicting her battle against the usual tedium of holidays.

I Can’t cry Much Louder Than This
Director: Robert Cambrinus
Running Time: 11 min
Seas of people, flames, deserts: to express his speechlessness about the state of the world, Robert Cambrinus assembles strident media images from the BBC-archives and lets his author-ego speak through subtitles. In several chapters, this ego tells of the subjectivity that accompanies each and every uttered observation and is thus capable of breaking up the usual relationships of images and words: “I see things differently”. An essayistic quest for countenance in a time, in which one soon loses track of the essentials.