(in preparation)
 
A/Lux 2010/2011
feature film, 35 mm
length: 110 min

Philip Ullich has just taken over the family firm when he is confronted with the strange appearance of his dead ancestors who arrive in waves, generation after generation, all wanting a say in the future of the family business. Philip has to fight several battles simultaneously and fatally falls in love with his aunt Renate who died more than 70 years ago. Occurring over one wild night with a murder, a séance, fake identities, a drawing-room showdown, a birth and a revolution, "The Night of a Thousand Hours" is a madcap tragi-comedy about acknowledging the past and atoning for it.

Production: Minotaurus Film Luxembourg, Amour Fou Filmproduktion Vienna
Writer, director: Virgil Widrich
Producers: Bady Minck, Alexander Ivanceanu
Executive producer: Jean-Laurent Csinidis
Project development in cooperation with Virgil Widrich Film

A/Lux 2003
short film, 35 mm
length: 14 min

"Fast Film" is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three dimensional objects.

Film: Making of high res / low res

Fast Film Homepage

Production: Amour Fou Filmproduktion, Minotaurus Film Luxembourg, Virgil Widrich Filmproduktion
 
Writer, director and editor:
Virgil Widrich
Photography: Martin Putz
Animation supervision:
Walter Rafelsberger, Markus Loder-Taucher
Origami and object design: Mine Scheid, Jakob Scheid, Carmen Völker
Sound design: Frédéric Fichefet
Producers: Bady Minck, Virgil Widrich
Co-producers:
Gabriele Kranzelbinder,
Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

A/F 2001, short film, DV-CAM
length: 4:09 min

Interviews with Bady Minck, Ruth Beckermann, Hans Hurch, Peter Tscherkassky, Florian Flicker, Alexander Ivanceanu, Michael Kreihsl and Wolfgang Lehner about "left" and "right" in film and politics.

Film: german version high res / low res
    french version high res / low res

Production: Arte/MK2TV
 
Screenplay and directed by:
Virgil Widrich
Camera: Martin Putz, Volkmar Geiblinger

A 2001, short film, 35 mm
length: 12 min.

The story of a man who copies himself until he fills up the entire world. The film won 32 international awards and was nominated for the Oscar 2001 (best short film).

Film: Making of Copy Shop high res / low res

Copy Shop Homepage

Production: Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H.
 
Screenplay, directed and produced by:
Virgil Widrich
Camera: Martin Putz
Music and sounddesign:
Alexander Zlamal
Production manager:
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Art direction: Joachim Luetke
Cast: Johannes Silberschneider,
Elisabeth Ebner-Haid

Europe 2000, feature film, 35 mm
length: 88 min.

A moonstruck comedy about robbers and lovers. City of Salzburg's Screenplay Award 1997, award for Lars Rudolph (Festival Angers France), LVT-Subtitling Award (Festival Angers France)

Film: Making of high res / low res
    Trailer high res / low res

Heller als der Mond Homepage

Production Company: Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H.
 
Director and Producer:
Virgil Widrich
Screenplay: Virgil Widrich, Enrico Jakob
Camera: Martin Putz
Production Manager:
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Art Direction: Hannes Salat
Alexandra Maringer
Costume: Gerhard Fresacher
Alexandra Burgstaller
Editing: Veronika Mossböck
Sound: Eric Spitzer
Music: Alexander Zlamal
Cast: Christopher Buchholz,
Lars Rudolph, Piroska Szekely,
Gerhard Liebmann, Werner Prinz, Alexander Ebeert, Horst Buchholz

A 1998, short film, 35 mm, Cinemascope
length: 5 min.

tx-transform is a new technique which transposes the time (t) and space (x) axes in a film. Normally, each frame depicts an entire space, but only a brief moment in time (1/24 second). In tx-transformed films, this is reversed: Each frame shows a period of time in its entirety, but only a tiny portion of the space. This produces phenomena such as those described by Einstein in his theory of relativity.

Film: Making of high res / low res

tx-transform Homepage

Screenplay, directed by:
Martin Reinhart, Virgil Widrich
 
Cast: Enrico Jakob, Heinrich Kröncke, Florian Ladstätter, Horst Mayer, Hans Reisinger, Thommy Reisinger
Music: Hermann Langschwert

A 1983-1985, Super-8-mm
length: 112 min.

A genre cross-over mixing action, horror and science fiction in the past, present and future. Virgil Widrich completed this full-length film at the age of 17.

"Two hours of cinematic fireworks." (Horst Christoph, Profil)

Written and directed by: Virgil Widrich
 
Cast: Christiane Sallmann, Ulrike Wirrer, Michael Lerperger, Christoph Wagner, Ernst Fiedler, Herbert Müller, Robin Trießnig, Harald Huemer, Peter Handke

A 1982, Super-8-mm
length: 12 min.

A gigantic insect-like monster destroys the city of Salzburg. An oedipal drama.

Written, directed and animated by:
Virgil Widrich
 
Cast: Libgart Schwarz, Hans Widrich and more

A 1981, Super-8-mm
length: 12 min.

Animated film by the then 13-year-old Virgil Widrich about a man and a small worm fleeing environmental destruction.

Written, directed and animated by:
Virgil Widrich

A 1980, Super-8-mm
length: 12 min.

Documentary about the Carinthian "mirror artist" Arnulf Komposch.

Written and directed by: Virgil Widrich

A 1980, Super-8-mm
length: 11 min.

Crime story: A woman is killed in a bar and served to the guests.

Written and directed by: Virgil Widrich
 
Cast: Libgart Schwarz

A 1980, Super-8-mm
length: 6 min.

Documentary about an old house.

Written and directed by: Virgil Widrich