Being Together Olaf Möller May 2021 What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future In the very midst of Covid-19's early panic days, I went for the first time ever to a drive-in theatre; a friend of mine took me there, in good parts because she couldn't believe that the man who'd seemingly se...
Great Expectations – Fulfilled: The 11th Far East Film Festival Olaf Möller September 2009 Festival Reports
Silver Linings: The Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film Olaf Möller July 2009 Festival Reports 17-22 March 2009 In the years since the Emergency Diagonale and the festival’s defence at the hands of Austria’s filmmaking community against a coup attempt by the government, the country’s second-...
Of Common Happiness and Sorrow: The 10th Udine Film Festival Olaf Möller August 2008 Festival Reports 18–26 April 2008 Udine’s Far East Film Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary in the only style honourable and becoming: by simply performing its function as fine as ever, resulting in a program gener...
Lost Poetics Past: The 50th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film Olaf Möller March 2008 Festival Reports 29 October – 4 November 2007 The main reason I went to the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Films this year was the retrospective: the festival turned 50, something like 20 pro...
Cinema. A Stream: The 9th Udine Far East Film Festival Olaf Möller October 2007 Festival Reports 20-29 April 2007 Udine’s Far East Film Festival remains a gathering place of choice for those truly serious about East and Southeast Asian cinemas: for those who really care about the cultures – right or...
Film Culture… and How to Make a Festival of It!: The 24th Torino Film Festival Olaf Möller February 2007 Festival Reports 10–18 November 2006 The Torino Film Festival is quite comfortable with being the No. 2 among Italy’s main events in cinema: it has just about all the respect granted Venice but few of the Biennale’s prob...
Ihr kleines Österreich: Wurscht, the World: Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film, Graz Olaf Möller July 2006 Festival Reports March 21–26, 2006 After the screening of Florian Flicker’s No Name City (2006), basically everybody at the Diagonale’s opening agreed that this tall verité tale about the internal troubles’n’struggles in...
Asia the Mighty, Asia da Rude: Places of Plenty: The 8th Far East Film Festival of Udine Olaf Möller July 2006 Festival Reports April 21–29, 2006 “No to Chinese Goods”, howled a cluster of Lega Nord-campaign posters from a downtown Udine wall when on the 21st of April the 8th Far East Film Festival opened in Friuli’s main city. T...
Ambiguous Adventures: The 23rd Torino Film Festival Olaf Möller February 2006 Festival Reports November 11–19, 2005 In the last few years, the Torino Film Festival (originally called Cinema Giovani) has gained something of an international reputation as one of Europe film culture’s Must-Attend Eve...
Passage along the Shadow-Line: Farocki and Others – Approaching a Certain Filmkritik-style Olaf Möller July 2002 Harun Farocki Möller affectionately discusses the films, writing and philosophy of the cineastes who wrote for German film magazine, Filmkritik, a culture or 'movement' strong enough to rival Cahiers.
