Competition 1: Just A Blip
Thursday, 20.03.2025, 20:00 @ Stadtkino im Künstlerhaus
approx. 89 min
Male Gazing
David Verdeure | 2024 | 7m 30s | BE
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
Male Gazing reimagines Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window. This version turns the tables on the film’s male characters. Hitchcock’s signature suspense spreads like wildfire as characters fall victim to the gaze of the photographer. The lively courtyard is depopulated, then repopulated with new inhabitants.
74
Charalambos Margaritis | 2024 | 15m 0s | CY
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
An inept figure takes on the impossible task of dealing with the memory of the 1974 Turkish army invasion in Cyprus and its aftermath.
glimpse
Ulrike Swoboda-Ostermann | 2025 | 3m 52s | AT
Radar Vienna AUSTRIAN Award
The blue-gray images of *glimpse* guide viewers through intimate, dynamic visual fragments of memory. The originally digital snapshots were analogously reproduced through the monochrome photographic process of cyanotype.
The film you are about to see
Maxime Marinot | 2023 | 11m | FR
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
Please note that the film you are about to see is taken from real material of film history, namely the disclaimers and warnings that frame the existence of many films. However, any collusion between art and industry, any conflict of interest between freedom of creation and the law, or any hint of moralism on the life of images, would be purely incidental and unintentional.
Saucer Central
Wheeler Winston Dixon | 2024 | 3m 11s | US
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
“Flying saucers in Central Park. – I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.” – Harry S. Truman
Remember How I Used to Ride a White Horse
Ivana Bosnjak Volda & Thomas Johnson Volda | 2022 | 9m 57s | HR
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
A waitress goes about her daily routine serving coffee whilst having thoughts of escaping her reality. A costumer is constantly recording and listening back to the surrounding sounds of the café and is completely fixated by this task. Apathy is a condition that leads consciousness into stagnation, but do either of them realise that they are themselves examples of this condition?
Gleno
Pietro Gardoni | 2023 | 7m 23s | IT
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
1923, December 1st. One of the first dam’s disasters in the world. Few minutes before the dawn the dam collapsed. First came the noise in the darkness, then the water swept everything away. More than 350 people died. Today the gutted dam remains, a monument to itself, to its tragedy and to the failure of human ambitions, while a group of wild rock goats takes back its own spaces.
Salute to the Sun
Darko Masnec | 2022 | 8m 50s | HR
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
An astronaut in love orbits around the sun absorbing its energy. But the sun is too big, causing their connection to break, and the astronaut must continue on his own. As he tries to return to his source of energy, he realizes there are others like him. What started out as a game, slowly turns into a love triangle. Shapes change, but their needs remain the same.
RELAX!
Jessica Hope Studwell | 2024 | 6m 16s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
Relax! follows Noah’s attempted journey to relaxation. During his day at a futuristic spa he is lead through different therapies by the AI robot Ai.leen. However, her priority is speed and efficiency.
Duckspeak
Sebastian Lou | 2024 | 13m 13s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
On their way to enlightenment, the people of the tower have lost sight of their vision. Instead of communicating constructively, the tower crowds trick each other, fight, or isolate themselves. The duck could not care less, but crowd doesn’t sound bad – it hasn’t had german food in a while, anyways. Relief for its hunger seems so very close.
Internet Gaga
Reinhold Bidner | 2023 | 2m 17s | AT
Radar Vienna AUSTRIAN Award
Once upon a time (not so long ago), we humans believed that we would create a free and democratic place of endless knowledge through the internet. Just a few downloads, swipes and dislikes later, we now know that we have failed massively. 4Real!