October Love Song: the 51st Viennale Daniel Fairfax November 2013 Festival Reports There are festivals that are objectively deemed to be ‘major’, and then there are festivals that have a special place in our individual hearts. The Viennale certainly occupies this latter position for me, but I...
The Politics of Body Parts, Programming and the Redistribution of Land: The 49th Viennale Barbara Wurm February 2012 Festival Reports In a state in which politics are generally considered synonymous with proportional representation (and that is a nice and rather euphemistic way of describing the Austrian “proporz”), it should be taken as a go...
Vienna’s Prater District on Film, or: Looking at the World Again Martina Lunzer April 2009 Feature Articles This article examines the filmic representation of Vienna’s famous Prater district and the many discourses around its historical significance.
Our Beloved Month of October (or, Do the Hurch-Lurch!): The 46th Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival Neil Young April 2009 Festival Reports 17-29 October 2008 “The ideal form of government, Karl Valentin said, is anarchy – with a strong anarchist in charge.” Thus the philosophy of Hans Hurch – starken Anarchen an der Spitze of the Vien...
