News Archive 2018
WE, THE TEAM, WISH ULRICH SEIDL ALL THE BEST TO HIS BIRTHDAY!
© Andreas Jakwerth
Winner at Nestroypreis 2018
We are happy to announce, that the project "The Children of the Dead" won the Nestroy special price last weekend!
A Film- and Performanceproject of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. A film by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion based on the same named novel of Elfriede Jelinek in cooperation with steirischer herbst.
ULRICH SEIDL'S "State of the Nation" (AT, 2002) at KINORESONANZEN
Filmarchive Austria's Retrospective "Kinoresonanzen - 100 Jahre Republik" from 15th november - 6th december
State of the Nation: After the electoral swing to the right in the year 2000, four directors set out across Austria in search of evidence for the political and social state of its people. Besides Ulrich Seidl, Barbara Albert, Michael Glawogger and Michael Sturminger tried to find microcosmic situations and discovered poeple in whom the private and the political were intertwined. 4 directors, 4 points of view, 4 realities. For his part, Ulrich Seidl took on everyday racism, the product of xenophobia gone mad. "State of the Nation" Thu 11/15, 09.00 pm at METROKINO
Winner at Nestroypreis 2018
We are happy to announce, that the project "The Children of the Dead" won the Nestroy special price last weekend!
A Film- and Performanceproject of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. A film by Ulrich Seidl Filmproduktion based on the same named novel of Elfriede Jelinek in cooperation with steirischer herbst.
US-REMAKE of "Goodnight Mommy” announced
Great Joy! Goodnight Mommy (“Ich seh Ich seh”), the award-winning horror thriller by Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala from 2014, will, as has now been officially announced at the Toronto Film Festival, undergo a US remake. It will be produced by the French world distributor "Playtime", together with "Animal Kingdom", responsible for successful films such as "It follows" and "It comes at night". Franz & Fiala will be Executive Producers at the remake.
LOSSES TO BE EXPECTED and GOODNIGHT MOMMY screening
on July 17th and 18th 2018 in Drosendorf
In the course of the Viertelfestival - "Dzwenk - Dosendorf Zelt Welt Narr" the filmclub Dosendorf arranges an event, where amongst others a film by Ulrich Seidl and the director's duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala will be shown.
GOODNIGHT MOMMY
Regie: Veronika Franz & Severin Fiala
Tuesday, July 17th 2018, 21:00
at Gasthof Failler - "Zum goldenen Lamm" in Drosendorf
"A horror movie? An author film? We want our movie Goodnight Mommy to be both. We love physical cinema. Movies that overpower you physically. At the same time, we also want to ask questions that we experience as existential. Questions dealing with life's realities, questions about education and power dynamics in the family and above all about the monstrous in people. We wanted to make a film that says something about our life and at the same time is nerve-racking."
- Veronika Franz and Severin FialaLOSSES TO BE EXPECTED
Director: Ulrich Seidl
Wednesday, July 18th 2018, 21:00
at Gasthof Failler – „Zum goldenen Lamm“ in Drosendorf
"As far as the film's subject matter is concerned, it gained an additional dimension during shooting. The well-known East-West paradigm - there poverty and misery, here prosperity and consumer society - receded into the background and was displaced by a higher, universal human paradigm: loneliness, unfulfilled love, old age and death. At a certain point in the film it no longer seemed to matter on which side of the border you find yourself." – Ulrich Seidl
KINO UNTER STERNEN
GOOD NEWS, Ulrich Seidl's film, will be screened on July 2nd at Karlsplatz!
Good News is Ulrich Seidl's first feature film, which he was finally able to make seven years after leaving the Vienna Film Academy. The screening of a rough cut of the film led to a fierce controversy, and it could never have been completed without the help of Werner Herzog. A single print of the film, shown in a single cinema, managed to draw 20,000 viewers. A sensation, especially for a documentary movie at the time. Werner Herzog still lists it on his documentary top ten.
Good News is a film about modern slaves and modern overseers, about small animals, small apartments, small people and small stories. About the insanity of normalcy in Austria. It portrays newspaper vendors in their yellow and red uniforms: young men from India and Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey - Muslims from the third world who hawk newspapers on the streets of Vienna. Here the world of the newspaper vendors, there the world of the newspaper readers in their Austrian living rooms.
SAFARI - broadcast on Arte
Thursday, 26th april 2018, 10 pm
Africa. In the wild expanses, where bushbucks, impalas, zebras, gnus and other creatures graze by the thousands, they are on holiday. German and Austrian hunting tourists drive through the bush, lie in wait, stalk their prey. They shoot, sob with elation and pose before the animals they have bagged. A vacation movie about killing, a movie about human nature.
In 2016 SAFARI premiered at the 73. Venice Film Festival.
Die Kinder der Toten - Work in Progress at the Diagonale 2018
A major film and performance project that links the performance duo Nature Theater of Oklahoma with Austrian literature Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek’s novel "Die Kinder der Toten" in cooperation with steirischen Herbst and produced by Ulrich Seild Filmproduktion.
PROGRAM:March 17, 201815:00-17:30 pmSchubertkino-Cafe-LoungeScreening & Talk „Die Kinder der Toten“
— "Die Untoten von Neuberg" (R: Ulrich A. Reiterer, AT 2018), Making-of Film, 58 Min.
— extensive talk within the scope of "Diagonale im Dialog": Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Michael Palm, Claus Philipp and Ulrich A. Reiterer are talking with Alexander Horwath about the first impressions of the project and the spectacular shooting
— »Die Steiermark hasse ich am allerwenigsten« – Elfriede Jelinek in debate (R: Veronica Kaup-Hasler, Claus Philipp, Ulrich A. Reiterer, AT 2018), Video, 45 Min.
