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GARTEN & SCHNAPS GINNY
By Amelie Loy By Susi Jirkuff

The stubbornness with which my grandmother Deserted single shots of city blocks in a
repots flowers and lays stone paths at an housing complex, drawn with pencil. A group
outdoor temperature of 30˚C is the same of teenagers repeatedly throws a cat out of
stubbornness with which she opposes her the window from the top floor. Ginny talks to a
cancer with self-determination. Garten & psychologist about the possible reasons.
Schnaps tries to capture the nuances between Whenever the dialog pauses or is replaced by a
autonomy and repression and tells about the gasp or a sigh, the film editing comes to life and
(im)possibilities to escape oneself. the view of the deserted street canyons quickly
(Austria / 2013 / 12:00 minutes) changes its perspective. Ultimately, this side-
stepping offers no way out, because the reality
is the result of socially generated boredom that
remains unproductive.
(Austria / 2015 / 05:00 minutes)

HOMESTATEMENTS MACHINE
By Maria Weber By Anna Vasof

An animated documentary about the feeling A film that uses “non-stop stop-motion” tech-
of being at home, which is unique for each niques and explores the question of how an
person. For some it is the identity of the object can work exclusively through its de-
language, for others it is a matter of the heart or construction/demolition. Ceramic plates used
even something nebulous. Some people search as hyper frames, on which gear wheels were
their whole life for a place they can belong to, drawn, are clamped in a special holder and
while others have found this place within them- continuously smashed with a hammer. At a
selves. These feelings are brought to light in the certain speed of the smashing it seems as if the
form of imaginative claymations. gears are rotating. In this sense, the machine is
(Austria / 2014 / 07:32 minutes) set in motion by its fragmentation.
(Austria / 2015 / 02:00 minutes)

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