FilmAbend # 2

Block 1
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Herwig Weiser (AT)

Selected 16mm/Super 8 Filmworks

These filmworks show a natural talent in a medium ideally suited for Herwig Weiser’s interest in the relationship of sound, image, performance and his focus on decaying technologies being returned to material origins.

UNTITLED (Spiegeltuxer) (2011, 8 min)
UNTITLED (Der Schellerer) (1997, 2 min)
UNTITLED (1995-1999/2013, 5 min)
UNTITLED (Face) (1998/2013, 7 min)

(Sound/Music by Phillip Quehenberger)

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Jan Frederik Depickere (BE)

Two documentary short films

SOLIPSOID (2011, 12 min)
A minimalist portrait of a night guard contemplating about violence, justice and his place in the universe.

ADRIFT (2012, 9 min)
Centred on Sharman Simu, a Ugandan forced to flee his country, Adrift explores the disjuncture between the refugee’s experiences of violent turmoil in his home country and the cold desperation of his current situation. His father and brother murdered, mother missing and his sister dead from HIV, Simu’s trauma is palpable and vivid. His resettlement in Norway, however, is only offering him peace. Satisfaction lies elsewhere.

Block 2
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Olafur Sveinsson (IS)

HLEMMUR (The last stop) (2002, 85 min)

Icelandic filmmaker Olafur Sveinsson takes on the challenge of documenting one of his native country's social ills by focusing on the homeless people taking shelter in the capital city of Reykjavik's main bus terminal in his 2002 sociological documentary Hlemmur (Last Stop). Most of the people Sveinsson interviewed were either mentally handicapped or grappling with some sort of debilitating addiction, both conditions which obviously had tremendously negative impacts on the subjects' personal lives and resulted in their social marginalization. As each of the outcasts gathers confidence in Sveinsson, they open up to the filmmaker regarding their utterly miserable situation and the hopelessness that prevents most of the Hlemmur's inhabitants from turning their lives around.