art+film+vienna Event

A FESTIVAL FOR EXPERIMENTS IN MOVING PICTURES
FIRST EDITION | 8 - 12 MAY 2024

a+f+v presents experiments in moving images on and beyond the cinema screen. The media and spatial boundaries of the screen or cinema hall are constantly being explored anew, going beyond conventional screenings in hybrid screening formats, installation screenings, interventions in public spaces and other work-specific presentation formats.

The Breitenseer Lichtspiele, founded in 1905, presenting film ever since without interruption are a consistent part of Vienna’s cinema culture. The cinema forms the festival’s centre from where screenings, performances, concerts and many other work-specific formats spread throughout the district.

WEDNESDAY | 08 MAY
20:00 | OPENING SCREENING

Digital avatars take the spotlight in all three films opening art+film+vienna 2024. Total Refusal, awarded with the European Film Award 2023, examine the uncanny yet surreal humoristic void, that is created by the absence of a certain group of protagonists in the virtual world of a popular video game. Andy Holden recreates an artist otherwise lost to oblivion and speculates about her personal inner kingdom. Finally Ryan Woodring’s digital creature blurs the line between the digital and the analog realm.

Kinderfilm by Total Refusal
spot healing by Ryan Woodring
Hermione: kingdom of the sick by Andy Holden

live performance by Roman Gavryliuk & Vano Sai
syntethizers & electronics | Roman Gavryliuk
live visuals | Vano Sai

For the opening screening of a+f+v Roman Gavryliuk & Vano Sai created a live performance putting live generated electronic sound and live visuals in dialogue.