All Films in Competition
Flickering Bond
Emil Petra-Szöke | 2023 | 3m 56s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
Tim, a member of the school newspaper team, finds himself in a bizarre situation. Sitting in the school hallway, he becomes aware that something has happened. However, the details elude him, yet he’s certain it was anything but trivial. Slowly, he begins to gain insights into the events.
Future Fips
Danielle Bouteille | 2024 | 2m 16s | AT
Radar Vienna AUSTRIAN Award
Future Fips is a hero from the future who solves all sorts of problems. He fights monsters, protects animals and teaches math to… Chuck Norris.
GHOSTS DISSOLVE IN LIGHT | Haiku for Ancestors
Andrea Hackl | 2024 | 2m 12s | AT
Radar Vienna AUSTRIAN Award
Hackl’s work always seeks to tap into our inner most core, to celebrate our vital power & energy, an alchemical process of becoming, through the dark towards the light.
GHOSTS DISSOLVE IN LIGHT | haiku for ancestors is a visual & sensorial poem, a morphing trace flowing through the womb of time, our inner ocean and origin, diving through the dark, light notes playing with shadows in a fluid dance of creation, like light rays breaking through the surface of the ocean. A meditation, an incantation to heal our ancestor’s history, still pulsating within our blood.
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.
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.
Glimpses
Leo Roithner, Lea Sofie Scholl | 2024 | 3m 40s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
Few figures are as polarizing as Sigmund Freud. Renowned as the father of psychoanalysis, his revolutionary ideas forever changed the landscape of psychology. Yet, behind the curtain of his celebrated theories lies a darker narrative. This animated short explores the controversial and often harmful treatments endured by Freud’s patients, shedding light on the shadowy side of his legacy.
Hegel in Therapy
Evi Jägle | 2023 | 4m 57s | AT
Radar Vienna AUSTRIAN Award
Animation, Experimental
Her Dress for the Final
Martina Mestrovic | 2023 | 8m 45s | HR
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
One day my granny dyed her wedding dress black. She wanted to be buried in it.
HORANGI
Lynn Kim | 2024 | 6m 38s | US
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
HORANGI is an animated film based on a dream where I arose to find myself in a field of tigers. The film seeks to capture the feelings of fear, admiration, conflict and similarity between the tiger and myself, and envisions what kind of tenuous harmony we might find together.
Hypnhadiqa
Chris Sagovac | 2024 | 5m 30s | US
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
Hypn: Sleep – Hadiqa: Garden – Hypnotic: Tending to produce sleep.
Paradisial dream gardens drift upon threshold consciousness.
Hypnhadiqa is an experiment using imagery from hand woven rugs to represent hallucinogenic fantasmata encountered in the waning state of consciousness during the onset of sleep. The kaleidoscopic sequence, in this transitional state of reception, is intended to unlock the hypnagogic cognitive state of the viewer.
I dream My dream
Monique van Kerkhof | 2023 | 4m 14s | NL
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
I dream My dream
Exploring, loving and dreaming
Unearthing freedoms, instinctively
with consciousness and unconsciousness intertwined
Circles define as if nothing be something
Some moves for true nearness, I give ground
but my dream after the real you, is real
INCARNATION
Van McElwee | 2022 | 7m 6s | US
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
Embodied avatars mingle in free-space.
Inherited Asymmetry
Borbély Sára Anna | 2023 | 1m 7s | AT
Radar Vienna ANGEWANDTE ANIMATION AWARD
Inherited Asymmetry is a video installation featuring live action and 2D animation elements. The video explores the realization that we not only inherit traits from our ancestors but also bodily asymmetries. The visual representation of these asymmetries is embodied through my own physical form, while the symbol of inheritance is depicted by the umbilical cord. The work delves into the anxiety surrounding what we inherit from our parents, both externally and internally.
Interdeviation
Jullian Young | 2024 | 2m 59s | US
Radar Vienna INTERNATIONAL Award
“Interdeviation” visualizes a world where humans, technology, and nature become inextricably merged. The video blends live action footage taken from the environments surrounding the artist’s home as well as images and footage of the artist herself. This footage was used as reference within generative AI to cultivate new and imagined landscapes as well as speculative human-plant hybrid organisms.
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!