Author Barbara Wurm

From the Old to the New: Stride, Soviet! (Dziga Vertov 1926) “§68 2000 Meters in the Land of the Bolsheviks  – A Kinoglaz effort about the work of Mossoviet; matured into one of the great documentary works, ...

There are biannual festivals, so why not try out a biannual festival report? Looking back might also help to distinguish between what will remain and momentary emergences of reason. Don’t get me wrong. This is ...

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...

By the time this report is out, many changes have occurred within Italian and international festival politics. What is left to say now is only this much: it is indeed hard to think of a festival director with m...

A general assumption is in the air – and it has been hanging there for a while now – that the Viennale is governed by leftist glamour. Attractive for some, disgusting for others, disputatious yet comfy for most...

23 January – 3 February 2008 If one had the time, if one were able to perceive life and its screens on a multiple level, if one were gifted to grasp the many entirely rounded up festivals within this one...

19–31 October 2007 Every festival has a reputation. A good reputation, or a bad reputation, however deserved it may be, either way. But only a few festivals have a real image. The Viennale is definitely ...

29 August – 8 September 2007 Every big festival comprises a minimum of two festivals, no matter how you differ your own private cine-right from cine-wrong – high vs low, mainstream vs avant-garde, Ho...

Kosmicheskij rejs/Cosmic Voyage/Cosmic Journey/The Space Ship/The Space Voyage (1936 USSR 70 mins) Prod Co: Mosfilm Dir: Vasilij Zhuravlev Scr: Aleksandr Filimonov, Vasilij Zhuravlev, loosely based on th...

13–25 October 2006 If an annual festival like the Viennale were to be encapsulated by a general motto, this year’s edition might be called If there still is anything to say, how can we say it (in film). ...