Timeline

Chronological overview of all projects and events from 1967 to the near future.


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2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

2011

2010

  • 29. December 2010 – 04. January 2011
    Le Parnal – Thorens-Glieres – France
  • 08. December 2010
    Graz – Kurzfilm Graz / uncut
  • 06. December 2010 – 12. December 2010
    Ljubljana Animateka 10 – International Animation Film Festival
  • 03. December 2010 – 12. December 2010
    Thessaloniki 10 – International Film Festival
  • 01. December 2010 – 07. December 2010
    Cinema Vox Populi – Chateau-Renard – France
  • 29. November 2010
    Wien – Forum Mozartplatz
  • 28. November 2010
    Wien – Filmarchiv Austria
  • 24. November 2010
    vor – BILD – end
    Visualisations in science and art
    Visual perception is a key process for human beings. Consequently, images play an important role in both science and art.

    In science, images are primary data or serve as visualisations that help to make sense of information. In research, images are accordingly found at the beginning and end of a process of recognition. Images as works of art can be understood as the culmination of creative activity but can equally serve as the inspiration at the beginning of a creative process.

    Presentation in the Planetarium, Vienna

    On 24/11/2010 dialog<>gentechnik, in cooperation with pooool, presents "vor - BILD - end" in the Planetarium, Vienna: visualisations in science and art

    Compère: Leo Andras Findeisen
    Virgil Widrich, director
    Tanja Gesell, scientist
    Musical résumé by Dominik Nostitz
    Video performance by Jan Lauth, Simone Carneiro and Peter Koger
    Commented by Renée Schröder
    Audio performance: Peter Szely
  • 11. November 2010
    New York – MoMA/Film & Video Department
  • 08. November 2010 – 14. November 2010
    Brest 2010 – 25. Festival du Film Court
  • 05. November 2010
    Amsterdam – EYE Film Institute
  • 03. November 2010 – 07. November 2010
    Utrecht 10 – Holland Animation Film Festival
  • 28. October 2010 – 07. November 2010
    Rio de Janeiro 10 – Mostra Curta Cinema
  • 27. October 2010 – 02. November 2010
    Cinema le Liberty – Monsempron-Libos – France
  • 25. October 2010 – 31. October 2010
    Uppsala 10 – 29. International Short Film Festival
  • 20. October 2010 – 26. October 2010
    Le Parnal – Thorens-Glieres – France
  • 09. October 2010 – 16. October 2010
    Lille 10 – 9. Rencontres Audiovisuelles Short Film Festival
  • 08. October 2010
    Opening of the exhibition "Robot Dreams" at the Kunsthaus Graz (8 October 2010 to 20 February 2011).
  • 30. September 2010
    As planned, on 30.9.2010 Virgil Widrich finishes the direction of "Digitale Kunst" and from now on is completely devoted to the new master course "Art & Science". Ruth Schnell becomes his successor.
  • 29. September 2010 – 05. October 2010
    Le Cin'Hoche – Bagnolet – France
  • 10. August 2010
    Danish Film Institute – Copenhagen
  • 21. July 2010 – 27. July 2010
    Le Navire – Valence – France
  • 14. July 2010 – 20. July 2010
    Cinema Marlymages – Marly – France
  • 30. June 2010 – 06. July 2010
    L'Atalante / Mjc – Morteau – France
  • 30. June 2010 – 06. July 2010
    Le Petit Casino – Saint-Aignan – France
  • 29. June 2010
    Zagreb – MI2 Multimedijalni institut
  • 24. June 2010 – 18. July 2010
    From 24 June to 18 July, 2010 15 students from the "Digital Art" class at the University of the Applied Arts exhibit works at the "Essence10" exhibition under the name "Hyperactive Prototypes" at the Künstlerhaus, Vienna.
  • 08. June 2010
    Opening of the exhibition "Robot Dreams" at the Museum Tinguely in Basel (8 June to 12 Sep. 2010).
  • 02. June 2010 – 08. June 2010
    Bonne Garde – Nantes – France
  • 19. May 2010 – 25. May 2010
    Majestic Saint Pol – Saint-Pol-de-Leon – France
  • 12. May 2010
    Columbus – Wexner Center for the Arts / The Ohio State University
  • 02. May 2010
    Brüssel – Österreichisches Kulturforum
  • 29. April 2010
    Caen – Transat Video
  • 13. April 2010
    Lecture on "film- and multimedia production" in the masters' programme "art & economy" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Am Heumarkt 27/3a, 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
  • 03. April 2010
  • 15. March 2010
    Lecture "The script from the computer". Presentation of the possibilities and impossibilities of "Dramatica" and "storyline Pro".
    Österreichisches Forschungsinstitut für Artificial Intelligence, OFAI, University of Vienna, Freyung 6/2, 1010 Vienna, 15.3.2010, 18:30.
  • 10. March 2010 – 16. March 2010
    Cine Breiz – Rosterenen – France
  • 03. March 2010
    Dakar – EU Festival (BMEIA)
  • 02. March 2010
    La Coruna – Centro de difusión e documentación das artes da imaxe da Xunta de Galicia
  • 02. March 2010
    Barcelona – Filmoteca de Catalunya
  • 19. February 2010 – 28. February 2010
    Tokyo – Yebisu International Festival
  • 17. February 2010 – 23. February 2010
    Ciné Feurs – Feurs – France
  • 17. February 2010 – 23. February 2010
    Studio Eden / le Navire – Crest – France
  • 09. February 2010
    València – IVAC / La Filmoteca
  • 08. February 2010
    Oldenburg – oh ton
  • 01. February 2010 – 08. June 2010
    Virgil Widrich produces a film entitled "make/real" for the exhibition "Robot Dreams" which is being staged at the Museum Tinguely in Basel (8 June to 12 Sep. 2010) and the Kunsthaus Graz (8 October 2010 to 20 February 2011).
  • 27. January 2010 – 02. February 2010
    Centre Des Arts – Enghien les Bains – France
  • 16. January 2010
    Wien – Filmarchiv Austria
  • 12. January 2010
    Lecture "In the studio with Virgil Widrich" in "School in the cinema - Educational program for schools at the Austrian Film Museum". Screening of "Auch Farbe kann träumen", "Monster in Salzburg", "Copy Shop" and "Fast Film". Austrian Film Museum, Augustiner Straße 1, 1010 Vienna, 12.1.2010, 11:00.
  • 12. January 2010
    Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
  • 12. January 2010
    Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
  • 12. January 2010
    Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
  • 12. January 2010
    Österreichisches Filmmuseum – in the studio with Virgil Widrich
  • 01. January 2010 – 26. October 2010
    Virgil Widrich is appointed the artistic director of the exhibition "90 Years of the Salzburg Festival" held from 17 June to 26 October 2010 in Salzburg Museum. The centrepiece is a multimedia "meta-exhibition", a compilation of performances from the most important productions of the last nine decades rearranged to create a programme that never actually existed in this form. The stage for this production is an abstract model that represents and reproduces the Festival venues in keeping with Max Reinhardt's motto, "The city as a stage".

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

  • 18. December 2002 – 17. December 2002
    Cinema le Rex – Nogent le Rotrou – France
  • 11. December 2002 – 17. December 2002
    Excelsior-Espace – Saint-Die-des-Vosges – France
  • 04. December 2002
    Arte shows a report by Frédéric Temps about the filming of "Fast Film".
  • 28. November 2002
    Team screening of the finished train sequence (5 min).
  • 27. November 2002 – 03. December 2002
    Cinema Marcel – Malakoff – France
  • 25. November 2002
    Bukarest 02 – DaKINO International Film Festival – "Alternative" Prize ★
  • 20. November 2002 – 26. November 2002
    Cinema Saint Denis – Lyon – France
  • 20. November 2002 – 26. November 2002
    Eldorado – Dijon – France
  • 20. November 2002 – 26. November 2002
    Cinema le Bretagne – Saint-Renan – France
  • 19. November 2002 – 24. November 2002
    Österreich Filmtage in Antalya, Türkei
  • 14. November 2002
    Birmingham 02 – Film and TV Festival
  • 13. November 2002 – 17. November 2002
    19. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest
  • 09. November 2002
    Puchon PISAF02 – Korea – International Student Animation
  • 04. November 2002 – 05. November 2002
    Member of the jury for the call "Creative Industries Vienna 2002" of Wiener Wirtschaftsförderungsfonds.
  • 01. November 2002 – 30. November 2002
    L.A. Freewaves 2002
  • 30. October 2002 – 29. October 2002
    Cinema le Club – La Roche Challais – France
  • 30. October 2002 – 12. November 2002
    Cinema Jean Renoir – Trappes – France
  • 28. October 2002
    Panel discussion at "Changing Strategies". Speakers: William Alsop, Dietmar Eberle, Heidi Pretterhofer, Virgil Widrich, Olivero Toscani. Moderator: Andreas Ruby.
    Changing Strategies, Vienna University of Technology
    Department for Architectural Design and Construction 2701
    Karlsplatz 13/2701, 1040 Vienna
    Lecture: Urania, 1010 Wien, Uraniastrasse 1, 28.10.2001 from 17:00 to 22:00.
  • 23. October 2002 – 29. October 2002
    Cinema Eden – Ancenis – France
  • 21. October 2002 – 27. October 2002
    Manchester 02 – 7th International Short Film and Video Festival
  • 16. October 2002 – 22. October 2002
    Cinema Arlequin – Paris – France
  • 14. October 2002 – 21. October 2002
    Thessaloniki 02 – Panorama of Independent Film and Video Makers – Best experimental Film ★
  • 09. October 2002 – 15. October 2002
    Cinema Iris – Questembert – France
  • 03. October 2002 – 14. October 2002
    Warsaw International Film Festival
  • 26. September 2002
    Press Conference "The future of the cultural mission and the arts in ORF" on occasion of the last broadcast of the program "Kunststücke" with Bady Minck (filmmaker), Gerald Bast (Rector University of Applied
    Art), Gabriele Kranzelbinder (film producer), Virgil Widrich
    (filmmaker), Lisl Ponger (photo and film artist), Gerhard Ruiss (IG
    Autorinnen Autoren), Daniela Koweindl (IG Bildende Kunst), among others
    Generali Foundation, Wiedner Hauptstraße 15, 1040 Vienna, 26.9.2002 at 10 am.
  • 25. September 2002 – 01. October 2002
    Cinema Eldorado – Saint-Pierre-d'Oleron – France
  • 23. September 2002
    Gonfreville l'Orcher 02 de la Pointe de Caux / Service Culturel
  • 22. September 2002
    Wien – Künstlerhaus Kino – "Film special: Virgil Widrich", Matinèe
  • 22. September 2002
    Wien – Künstlerhaus Kino – "Film special: Virgil Widrich", Matinèe
  • 20. September 2002 – 26. September 2002
    BMAA – 1. International Happy Days Film Festival – Istanbul
  • 19. September 2002
    Wien – Künstlerhaus Kino – "Film special: Virgil Widrich"
  • 19. September 2002
    Wien – Künstlerhaus Kino – "Film special: Virgil Widrich"
  • 19. September 2002
    Wien – Künstlerhaus Kino – "Film special: Virgil Widrich"
  • 19. September 2002
    Wien – Künstlerhaus Kino – "Film special: Virgil Widrich"
  • 18. September 2002 – 17. September 2002
    Theatre Jean Arp – Clamart – France
  • 13. September 2002 – 15. September 2002
    Sanary sur mer 2002 (F) – Short Films Festival of La Ciotat
  • 12. September 2002
    Athen 2002 – International Film Festival
  • 12. September 2002
    Rom – Enzimi Festival
  • 11. September 2002 – 17. September 2002
    Cinema Paul Eluard – Choisy-le-Roi – France
  • 09. September 2002
    Lecture "Introduction Multimedia and practical examples"
    Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Leyserstraße 6, 1140 Wien, September 9th, 2002, 9:00 to 12:00 a.m.
  • 04. September 2002
    At midnight internal test screening of hitherto filmed animated in the Filmcasino.
  • 28. August 2002 – 03. September 2002
    L'Ecran de Saint Denis – Saint-Denis – France
  • 28. August 2002 – 03. September 2002
    Cinema Agnes Varda – Beauvais Cedex – France
  • 28. August 2002
    Test screening of hitherto animated material in the Listo Film.
  • 22. August 2002 – 26. August 2002
    Hiroshima 2002 – International Animation Festival – Special Prize ★
  • 21. August 2002 – 22. September 2002
    Participation in the group exhibition "SALON 2002. im zentrum: diskurs. Neuaufnahmen 1990-2001" at the Künstlerhaus Vienna
  • 19. August 2002 – 30. June 2017
    Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H. is a member of AAFP – Association of Austrian Film Producers.
  • 18. August 2002 – 22. August 2002
    Novo Mesto 02 – SNIFF International Short Film Festival
  • 12. August 2002 – 17. August 2002
    Odense 2002 – International Film Festival – Jury Members Personal Prize ★
  • 31. July 2002 – 06. August 2002
    Cinema le Melies – Pau – France
  • 18. July 2002
    The animation team is increased to a total of 12 people: Gernot Egger, Michael Lang, Markus Loder-Taucher, Alexandra Pauser, David Reischl, Walter Rafelsberger, Christian Ursnik, Vinh-San Nguyen, Carmen Völker, Mario Waldhuber and Gerald Zahn.
  • 12. July 2002
    Lectures in "Filmschule Wien" at the "Summer Camp in Arsparn" on screenplay writing, screenplay software and film analysis. 12.7.2002 from 9:00 to 18:00.
    Filmschule Wien, Pillergasse 8/23, A-1150 Vienna, Tel: 1-8954499
  • 10. July 2002 – 09. July 2002
    Cinema Venise Verte – St-Hilaire la Palud – France
  • 06. July 2002 – 12. July 2002
    Trieste 2002 – Marematraggio Festival
  • 04. July 2002
    "Brighter than the Moon/Heller als der Mond" at "ORF/Kunststücke", 2.7.2002 at 00:00, FS 1
  • 03. July 2002 – 06. July 2002
    Roma 02 – Capalbio Cinema International Short Film
  • 03. July 2002 – 16. July 2002
    Cinebus – Sillingy – France
  • 03. July 2002 – 09. July 2002
    Espace Cinema – Loriol-sur-Drome – France
  • 27. June 2002
    Speaker at MTD Gala of Fachhochschule Hagenberg, media technology and design, Softwarepark 11, 4232 Hagenberg im Mühlkreis. 27.6.2002 at 20:00.
  • 26. June 2002 – 20. August 2002
    Le Denfert – Paris – France
  • 26. June 2002 – 25. June 2002
    Le Chaplin – Mantes la Jolie – France
  • 26. June 2002 – 25. June 2002
    Cine 4 – Castillones – France
  • 21. June 2002 – 23. June 2002
    Hildesheim – Best Before 2002
  • 19. June 2002 – 02. July 2002
    Cinema Paul Eluard – Bezons – France
  • 18. June 2002 – 24. June 2002
    Ljubljana 2002 – Break 21
  • 12. June 2002 – 11. June 2002
    Agence du Court – Paris – France
  • 12. June 2002 – 18. June 2002
    Cinema le Zola – Villeurbanne – France
  • 07. June 2002
    Member of the jury for the logo selection "Mozart2006 Salzburg".
  • 05. June 2002 – 19. June 2002
    Nashville 02 – Nashville Independent Film Festival 2002 – Honorable Mention
  • 05. June 2002 – 04. June 2002
    L'Alhambra – Vittel – France
  • 05. June 2002 – 04. June 2002
    Theatre Jean Arp – Clamart – France
  • 05. June 2002 – 18. June 2002
    Cinema Paul Eluard – Bezons – France
  • 04. June 2002 – 16. June 2002
    Belo Horizonte 2002 – Short Film Festival – Best international short Film ★
  • 04. June 2002 – 16. June 2002
    Belo Horizonte 2002 – Short Film Festival – Press Award ★
  • 02. June 2002 – 08. June 2002
    Peniscola (E) 2002 – Festival de Cine
  • 30. May 2002
    Soho in Ottakring "Flüchtig daheim" – Haralds Bar, Grundsteingasse 15 – Vienna
  • 29. May 2002 – 04. June 2002
    Cinema Jour de Fete – Gisors – France
  • 28. May 2002 – 29. May 2002
    BMAA – Österreichische Filmwoche Bratislava
  • 28. May 2002 – 29. May 2002
    BMAA – Österreichische Filmwoche Bratislava
  • 27. May 2002 – 31. May 2002
    Österreichische Filmwoche Pressburg
  • 25. May 2002 – 27. May 2002
    Harrisburg 02 – Artsfest Film Festival
  • 23. May 2002 – 31. May 2002
    Festival Culturel Européen 2002, Algerien
  • 23. May 2002
    Lecture on "tx-transform – film theory and practice on concepts of space" at the Kunstuniversität Linz, unit_m, Raum & Designstrategien, Univ.-Prof. Elsa Prochazka, Reindlstraße 16-18, 4040 Linz-Urfahr. 23.5.2002, 18:00 to 20:00.
  • 22. May 2002 – 28. May 2002
    Cinema Alain Resnais – Clermont-l'Herault – France
  • 15. May 2002 – 14. May 2002
    Rex – Abbeville – France
  • 15. May 2002 – 21. May 2002
    Cinema la Bobine – Quimperle – France
  • 10. May 2002
    Salzburg – Das Kino – Film evening Virgil Widrich
  • 10. May 2002
    Salzburg – Das Kino – Film evening Virgil Widrich
  • 10. May 2002
    Salzburg – Das Kino – Film evening Virgil Widrich
  • 10. May 2002 – 22. May 2002
    EU Filmtage Tunis
  • 10. May 2002
    Salzburg – Das Kino – Film evening Virgil Widrich
  • 08. May 2002 – 14. May 2002
    Les Montreurs – Agen – France
  • 08. May 2002 – 21. May 2002
    U.D.M.J.C - 21 – Dijon Cedex – France
  • 08. May 2002 – 21. May 2002
    U.D.M.J.C - 21 – Dijon Cedex – France
  • 07. May 2002
    Lecture on "tx-transform" at the Graz University of Technology – Institute of Urban Design, "Beyond Housing".
    Forum Stadtpark, Stadtpark 1, 8010 Graz, 7.5.2002, 19:00 to 21:00.
  • 04. May 2002
    Lecture "Screenplay software: FinalDraft and Dramatica" at Drehbuchforum Wien, Stiftgasse 6, A-1070 Wien, 4. Mai 2001 from 14:00 to 18:00 Uhr.
  • 01. May 2002 – 07. May 2002
    Cinema De l'Ysieux – Fosses – France
  • 24. April 2002 – 30. April 2002
    Cinema Louis Daquin – Le Blanc-Mesnil – France
  • 24. April 2002 – 30. April 2002
    Le Luxy – Ivry-sur-Seine – France
  • 24. April 2002 – 23. April 2002
    Concorde – La Roche sur Yon – France
  • 24. April 2002 – 23. April 2002
    Agence du Court – Paris – France
  • 24. April 2002 – 28. April 2002
    Osnabrück 02 – Europ. Media Art Festival
  • 20. April 2002
    Innsbruck – Cinematograph – Retrospective Virgil Widrich
  • 20. April 2002
    Innsbruck – Cinematograph – Retrospective Virgil Widrich
  • 20. April 2002
    Innsbruck – Cinematograph – Retrospective Virgil Widrich
  • 20. April 2002
    Innsbruck – Cinematograph – Retrospective Virgil Widrich
  • 18. April 2002 – 02. May 2002
    San Francisco 02 – International Film Festival
  • 17. April 2002 – 07. May 2002
    Salle Notre Dame – Masseube – France
  • 17. April 2002 – 23. April 2002
    Le Scarron – Fontenay-aux-Roses – France
  • 17. April 2002 – 21. April 2002
    Norrkoeping 2002 – Flimmer Film Festival
  • 16. April 2002 – 21. April 2002
    Dresden 2002 – Filmfest – 2nd Prize ★
  • 11. April 2002 – 31. December 2014
    Official opening of the offices of "Amour Fou Filmproduktion" and  "Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H." at Lindengasse 32, 1060 Vienna on 11.4.2002 starting at 16:00.
  • 11. April 2002
    TV broadcasting: ORF/Kunststücke, in the series "Mega" from about 23:55.

    From the ORF-Announcement:
    "... At 13, he experimented with a Super-8 camera, at 15 he shoots his first film with real people and enrolls a star actor from the Berliner Schaubühne: Libgart Schwarz. The script is monumental, reads like a Japanese B-Movie and bears the title: "Monster in Salzburg". The giant is a 30-centimeter-long wooden doll with yarn hair and is brought to life by means of stop-motion. Widrich built entire streets as a model..."
  • 11. April 2002 – 21. April 2002
    The Images Festival Of Independent Film And Video, Toronto
  • 10. April 2002 – 16. April 2002
    Cinema Sonhir 3 – Hirson – France
  • 10. April 2002 – 16. April 2002
    Cinema le Concorde – Mitry Mory – France
  • 10. April 2002 – 09. April 2002
    Cine Max Linder – Creon – France
  • 06. April 2002 – 13. April 2002
    Granada 02 – Jovenes Realisatores Film Festival
  • 04. April 2002 – 10. April 2002
    Istanbul 2002 – International Short Film Days
  • 04. April 2002 – 07. April 2002
    Wunsiedel 2002 – Grenzland Filmtage
  • 03. April 2002 – 16. April 2002
    Cineco – Saint-Martin-de-Lansuscle – France
  • 03. April 2002 – 09. April 2002
    Espace Aragon – Oissel – France
  • 02. April 2002 – 15. April 2002
  • 28. March 2002 – 29. March 2002
  • 27. March 2002 – 26. March 2002
    Espace Jacques – Aulnay Sous Bois – France
  • 27. March 2002 – 02. April 2002
    Le Normandy – Thury-Harcourt – France
  • 25. March 2002
    Wien – Filmcasino – Standard-Night for Virgil Widrich
  • 25. March 2002
    Wien – Filmcasino – Standard-Night for Virgil Widrich
  • 24. March 2002
    With Gabriele Kranzelbinder (production manager), Martin Putz (camera) and Johannes Silberschneider (actor) at the Academy Awards 2002 at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.
  • 22. March 2002 – 24. March 2002
    Mamers en Mars (F) Festival 2002
  • 20. March 2002 – 24. March 2002
    East Lansing Film Festival
  • 20. March 2002 – 27. October 2002
  • 20. March 2002 – 26. March 2002
    Du Cinema de la Maison – Saint-Claude – France
  • 20. March 2002 – 19. March 2002
    Cinema Lux – Le Buisson de Cadouin – France
  • 20. March 2002 – 26. March 2002
    Cinema la Rotonde – Moissy-Cramayel – France
  • 15. March 2002 – 24. March 2002
    Skopje 02 – Skopje Film Festival
  • 15. March 2002 – 30. March 2002
    Bruxelles 02 – Festival of Fantasy, Thriller and Science Fiction Films – Prix des televisions europeennes ★
  • 14. March 2002 – 24. March 2002
    Cleveland International Film Festival – The Process Award for Visual Excellence, Honorable Mention
  • 13. March 2002 – 19. March 2002
    L'Atalante / Mjc – Morteau – France
  • 13. March 2002 – 19. March 2002
    Cinema la Palette – Tournus – France
  • 12. March 2002
    San Francisco 02 – Insurgency Pictures
  • 11. March 2002
    With Gabriele Kranzelbinder (production manager), Martin Putz (camera) and Johannes Silberschneider (actor) at the "Oscar Nominees Luncheon" of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Los Angeles. Group photo with, among others, Sissi Spacek, Sting, Robert Altman, David Lynch, Kate Winslet, Nicole Kidman, Ridley Scott, Will Smith, Russell Crowe and Ben Kingsley.
  • 06. March 2002 – 19. March 2002
    Le Clair Obscur – Rennes – France
  • 06. March 2002 – 05. March 2002
    C.A.C. – Orleans – France
  • 06. March 2002 – 12. March 2002
    Cinema Normandy – Cine – Alencon – France
  • 05. March 2002 – 10. March 2002
    Tampere 2002 – 32. Short Film Festival
  • 01. March 2002
    Broadcasting at iFilm.com – 60.000 views in the first 24 hours – "most popular short"
  • 28. February 2002 – 07. February 2002
    Washington DC Independent Film Festival
  • 27. February 2002 – 05. March 2002
    Univercine – Chambery Cedex – France
  • 27. February 2002 – 05. March 2002
    Cinema Atlantic – La Turballe – France
  • 27. February 2002 – 31. March 2002
    Deutschsprachige Tage an der Universität Assiut
  • 25. February 2002 – 02. March 2002
    Filmfestival Dakar
  • 21. February 2002 – 03. March 2002
    Twelfth Annual Cinequest Film Festival – San Jose, California
  • 20. February 2002 – 24. February 2002
    Boston Underground Film Festival – Best of Festival ★
  • 14. February 2002
    Official opening of checkpointmedia's new office at the "Haus der Musik", Seilerstätte 30, 1010 Vienna.
  • 13. February 2002 – 17. February 2002
    Vierzon 02 – International D-Cinema Festival – Cristal of Lumière Award ★
  • 12. February 2002
    "Copy Shop" is the first Austrian short film to be nominated for the Oscar in the category "Best Short – Life Action" by the "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science". ★
  • 08. February 2002 – 23. February 2002
  • 06. February 2002 – 05. February 2002
    Jean Vilar – Romans sur Isere – France
  • 06. February 2002 – 12. February 2002
    Cinema Agora – Chateaulin – France
  • 06. February 2002 – 12. February 2002
    Cinema Florida – Saint-Savinien – France
  • 06. February 2002 – 12. February 2002
    Cinefol 31 – Toulouse – France
  • 03. February 2002
    The 9th Annual Texas Film Festival
  • 01. February 2002 – 09. February 2002
    Curating the film series "Carte blanche vs brown thoughts" at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival.

    Austrian films have been dealing with "brown thoughts" for many years, whereas "brown" does not have much in common with the act of "thinking". In a long sequence in the film "Autumn 95/Fall 95" we can get a notion of what kind of people were attracted by events with Jörg Haider in 1995, and what they had to say. Today we can see many other people around Haider, who had not yet come to the forefront in 1995.
    "Zero Crossing" is situated on the other side of the spectrum of opinions; in equally long sequences, it is banning the instantaneous disgust in March 2000 on film. The state of shock of the interviewees then has today – two years after the Freedom Party has entered the Austrian government – given place to a common paralysis. The opponent has, in the meanwhile, become powerful: in Austria, we were first with a right wing government. Now, there is not only Haider, but there are also Berlusconi and Bush. Those people are going to stay with us for a while because difficult times are heydeys for bad politicians. On the other hand, difficult times are also heydeys for good films – and nine of those can be seen at Clermont-Ferrand. They are entirely different films, but what they stand against is always the same.
    Many thanks to Amour Fou Filmproduktion, Meter, Navigator Film, Sixpack Film, "Die Kunst der Stunde ist Widerstand" and Schnittpunktfilm.

    Virgil Widrich

    Films shown: "Günter 1939 (Heil Hitler)" (Johannes Rosenberger), "Herbst 95" (Alexander Binder, Michael Gartner, Elke Groen, Rainer Frimmel, Rainer Obrist), "5 Filme gegen Schwarz-Blau: Schaukel" (Thomas Horvath), "Dar-el-Beida" (Tim Sharp), "Passagen" (Lisl Ponger), "Heimkehr. Wien 1941/1996." (Caroline Weihs, Michael Domes), "Zero Crossing. Conversations in Vienna" (Johannes Holzhausen), "Marriage Blanc" (Concept Gustav Deutsch, realization Gustav Deutsch and Mostafa Tabbou), "Pinocchio" (Martin Reinhart)
  • 01. February 2002
    checkpointmedia moves into the new office at the "Haus der Musik", Seilerstätte 30, 1010 Vienna. The new software "Genesto", which was produced in cooperation with Mensalia Unternehmensberatung, is presented. "Genesto" is a content management system to produce interactive annual reports for the internet.
    First clients are DaimlerChrysler, Sanochemia and the Vienna International Airport. Other multimedia projects are: installations for the Giant Ferris Wheel, Kunsthalle Leoben and the Museum SMCA Salzburg.
  • 01. February 2002 – 03. February 2002
    Österreichischer Film – Kunsthalle Basel – Basel – Switzerland
  • 01. February 2002 – 10. February 2002
    Victoria 02 – Independent Film & Video Festival
  • 31. January 2002 – 10. February 2002
    4th Annual San Francisco Independent Film Festival
  • 30. January 2002 – 26. March 2002
    Le Denfert – Paris – France
  • 30. January 2002 – 05. February 2002
    Cinema Arlequin – Belley – France
  • 29. January 2002
    Participation at a workshop on program development "Knowledge management, information and cultural exchange with new media" of FHWien hosted by Paul Tavolato with Arno Aschauer, Richard Fortmüller, Michael Gervautz, Hartwig Jobst, Julia Michl, Walter Sertl.
    Hotel Modul, 1190 Vienna, Peter-Jordan-Straße 78, 29.1.2002 9:00 to 16:00.
  • 26. January 2002
    Lecture "Interactive Screenwriting" at the Center for Publishing and Media Management at the Donauuiversität Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau, 17.03.2000, 9:30 to 18:00.
  • 25. January 2002 – 03. February 2002
    Black Maria Festival 2002 / New Jersey – 2nd Prize ★
  • 23. January 2002 – 29. January 2002
    Les Studios – Tours – France
  • 23. January 2002 – 22. January 2002
    Le Rio – Capbreton – France
  • 23. January 2002 – 29. January 2002
    De Cinema Theatre – Chatillon – France
  • 23. January 2002 – 26. January 2002
    Würzburg 02 – Filmwochenende
  • 19. January 2002 – 26. January 2002
    Sarasota Film Festival – Sarasota – USA
  • 18. January 2002 – 24. January 2002
    Triest 2002 – Alpe Adria Cinema Film Festival
  • 17. January 2002 – 20. January 2002
    15. Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Wand 5 – Festival for Expanded Media
  • 16. January 2002 – 29. January 2002
    Cine 32 – Auch – France
  • 16. January 2002 – 22. January 2002
    Cinema Eden – La Souterraine – France
  • 15. January 2002 – 20. January 2002
    Lyon 2002 – Les Inattendus Film and Videofestival
  • 12. January 2002 – 14. January 2002
    Némo Festival 02 – Forum des Images – Paris
  • 09. January 2002 – 15. January 2002
    Cinema les Halles – Charlieu – France
  • 04. January 2002 – 12. January 2002
    Sydney – Flickerfest 02 – 11 International Short Film Festival
  • 02. January 2002 – 01. January 2002
    Juliobona – Lillebonne – France
  • 02. January 2002
    New York 01/02 – P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
  • 01. January 2002
    Amour Fou Filmproduktion GmbH. produces the films by Bady Minck ("Im Anfang war der Blick") and Martin Arnold ("Deanimated – The invisible Ghost").
  • 01. January 2002 – 31. December 2014
    "Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H." moves into its office in Lindengasse 32, 1060 Vienna (at Amour Fou Film), which is there until  31.12.2014.

2001

  • 26. December 2001 – 01. January 2002
    Cine Labor – Dieulefit – France
  • 26. December 2001 – 01. January 2002
    Les Montreurs – Agen – France
  • 26. December 2001 – 25. December 2001
    Cinema Jacques Tati – Tremblay en France – France
  • 26. December 2001 – 01. January 2002
    Cinema Renaissance – Bray-sur-Seine – France
  • 19. December 2001 – 18. December 2001
    Plazza – Besancon – France
  • 19. December 2001 – 25. December 2001
    Cinema Joel le Theule – Sable-sur-Sarthe – France
  • 12. December 2001 – 18. December 2001
    Cinema Ventura – Athis-Mons – France
  • 12. December 2001 – 18. December 2001
    Le Rex 1 & 2 – Chauvigny – France
  • 11. December 2001
    Gartenbaukino Wien – Grüne Kino-Weihnacht
  • 06. December 2001 – 09. December 2001
    35th New York EXPOsition of short film & video – The Eastman Kodak Award ★
  • 05. December 2001 – 11. December 2001
    Espace Paul Eluard – Stains Cedex – France
  • 05. December 2001 – 11. December 2001
    Cinema le Rutebeuf – Clichy – France
  • 05. December 2001 – 11. December 2001
    Les Cinoches – Ris-Orangis – France
  • 01. December 2001
  • 01. December 2001 – 09. December 2001
    Tallinn 01 – Black Nights Film Festival
  • 29. November 2001 – 09. December 2001
    Rio de Janeiro 01 – Mostra Curta Cinema
  • 28. November 2001 – 04. December 2001
    Cinema le Margot – Nerac – France
  • 28. November 2001 – 04. December 2001
    Cinema Agnes Varda – Beauvais Cedex – France
  • 28. November 2001 – 04. December 2001
    Le Bretagne – Guichen – France
  • 28. November 2001 – 02. December 2001
    Münster – Filmfestival 01
  • 23. November 2001 – 02. December 2001
    Leuven Kort 2001 – International Short Film Festival – Prize of the Jury ★
  • 22. November 2001 – 21. December 2001
    Künstlerhaus Wien presents "Copy Shop" together with a short "making of" and numerous original paper frames as an installation in the passage gallery of the Künstlerhaus. Opening on 21 November 2001 at 19:00 in the presence of Virgil Widrich.
  • 22. November 2001 – 29. November 2001
  • 21. November 2001 – 27. November 2001
    Cine 89 – Berre-l'Etang – France
  • 21. November 2001 – 27. November 2001
    Les Visiteurs du Soir – Valbonne – France
  • 17. November 2001 – 30. November 2001
    Taipei 2001 Golden Horse Film festival
  • 16. November 2001 – 23. November 2001
    Madrid 2001 – Semana de Cine Experimental – 1st. Award Comunidad de Madrid – Best Film ★
  • 16. November 2001 – 24. November 2001
    L’Alternativa 2001 – Festival de Cinema Independent de Barcelona – Best Short Film ★
  • 15. November 2001 – 18. November 2001
  • 15. November 2001 – 18. November 2001
    Murs/Provence 2001 – Court c'est Court
  • 14. November 2001 – 13. November 2001
    Arc En Ciel – Lievin – France
  • 14. November 2001 – 20. November 2001
    Mjc Picaud / Studio 13 – Cannes – France
  • 14. November 2001 – 20. November 2001
    Cinema Saint Paul – Reze – France
  • 13. November 2001 – 17. November 2001
    Videoarchaeology 2001. Archaeology of Desire – Third International Video/Media Art Festival – Sofia – Bulgaria
  • 12. November 2001 – 16. November 2001
    UNESCO short film festival, Quito, Ecuador
  • 12. November 2001 – 15. November 2001
    Shorts International Film Festival New York 2001 – Best Experimental ★
  • 10. November 2001 – 17. November 2001
    Calcutta Film Festival 2001
  • 10. November 2001 – 18. November 2001
    Festival Europeen du film court, Brest
  • 09. November 2001 – 18. November 2001
    Amiens 01 – Festival International du Film
  • 08. November 2001 – 15. November 2001
    Zagreb, Agram 01 – International EU Film Festival
  • 08. November 2001 – 18. November 2001
    Stockholm 2001 – International Film Festival (member screening)
  • 08. November 2001 – 13. November 2001
    Strasbourg 2001 – Forum du Cinema Européen
  • 08. November 2001 – 11. November 2001
    Winterthur 01 – International Kurzfilmtage
  • 08. November 2001 – 11. November 2001
    Amsterdam 01 – SHORTS!
  • 07. November 2001 – 13. November 2001
    De Foyer Rural – Samatan – France
  • 07. November 2001 – 06. November 2001
    Le Connetable – Clisson – France
  • 07. November 2001 – 06. November 2001
    Cine-Caluire – Caluire – France
  • 07. November 2001 – 11. November 2001
    Lleida 2001 – inCURT – Best Short Film ★
  • 06. November 2001 – 11. November 2001
    Berlin – Interfilm 2001 – 17. Internationales Kurzfilmfestival
  • 01. November 2001 – 11. November 2001
    AFI – American Film Institute Fest, Los Angeles – Special Mention for Technical Excellence
  • 31. October 2001 – 06. November 2001
    Cinema Florida – Saint-Savinien – France
  • 30. October 2001
    Walter Rafelsberger measures the room for the planned animation studio in the office of Amour Fou Filmproduktion: "2,1m x 3,1m".
  • 29. October 2001
    Lecture "tx-transform – a new view of space and time" in the "Institute of Architecture Sciences / Department of Architecture Theory" at Technische Universität Wien.
    Wiedner Hauptstr. 7, 1040 Vienna, 29.10.2001 20:00 to 21:30
  • 26. October 2001 – 29. October 2001
    Telluride International Experimental Cinema Exposition
  • 26. October 2001 – 03. November 2001
    Valladolid 2001 – 46th International Film Festival – First Prize – Golden Spike ★
  • 24. October 2001 – 23. October 2001
    Espace des Arts – Chalon sur Saone – France
  • 24. October 2001 – 23. October 2001
    De Centre Culturel – Foix – France
  • 24. October 2001 – 30. October 2001
    Cine Les Varietes – Hendaye – France
  • 24. October 2001 – 30. October 2001
    Cinema de Gencay – Gencay – France
  • 24. October 2001 – 30. October 2001
    Le Theatre – Poitiers – France
  • 24. October 2001
    Lecture "Short film and interactive multimedia production" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, class Brigitte Kowanz. Topics: Multimedia production and calculation, tx-transform – the film process, interactive dialogues, the production of "Copy Shop".

    University of Applied Arts Vienna, Institute of Experimental Design and Space Art, Univ.-Prof. Mag. Art. Kowanz
    Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, A-1010 Wien, 24.10.2001, 10:00 to 14:00
  • 24. October 2001 – 28. October 2001
    VIPER 2001 – International Medienkunstfestival
  • 22. October 2001 – 28. October 2001
    Genf 01 – Cinema Tout Ecran
  • 22. October 2001 – 28. October 2001
    Uppsala 01 – 20. International Short Film Festival
  • 18. October 2001
    Lecture "tx-transformator" (together with Martin Reinhart) at the "Festival International Nouveau Cinema, Nouveaux Medias" at Ex-Centris Cinema, Montreal. 18.10.2001 from 9:00 to 17:00.
  • 18. October 2001
    On 18.10.2001 at 23:45 ORF/Kunststücke hosts a discussion about the Austrian film and its perception in this country with Hans Hurch (Viennale director), Alexander Horwath (Filmmuseum), Dominik Kamalzadeh (Standard film critic), Ulrich Seidl (Director "Dog Days") and Virgil Widrich (director).
  • 17. October 2001 – 23. October 2001
    La Cinema Municipal – Neuilly-Plaisance – France
  • 17. October 2001 – 20. October 2001
    Metz 01 – Recontres Europeenes Court Metrage
  • 16. October 2001 – 27. October 2001
    Essone 01 – Cinessone Festival du Cinema Européen
  • 16. October 2001 – 21. October 2001
    Leipzig 2001 – 44. Internationales Film Festival – Silberne Taube – Internationale Jury für Animationsfilm ★
  • 12. October 2001 – 04. November 2001
    Ankara 2001 – Festival of European Films / Festival on Wheels
  • 12. October 2001 – 21. October 2001
    CINE-X 2001 – Olympia Film Festival, USA – First Place ★
  • 10. October 2001 – 09. October 2001
    Le Club – Fougeres – France
  • 10. October 2001 – 16. October 2001
    Cinema le Balzac – Paris – France
  • 08. October 2001 – 18. October 2001
    Ghent 2001 – Flanders International Film Festival
  • 08. October 2001 – 18. October 2001
    Hull 2001 – International Shortfilm Festival
  • 08. October 2001
    ARTE shows "Copy Shop" in its program "Kurzschluss" on 8.10.2001 at 23:55.
  • 07. October 2001 – 15. October 2001
    Cork 2001 – 46. International Film Festival – Irland
  • 03. October 2001 – 09. October 2001
    Salle Jacques Tati – Orsay – France
  • 03. October 2001 – 02. October 2001
    Le Prevert – Harnes – France
  • 27. September 2001 – 12. October 2001
    Leeds 2001 – International Film Festival
  • 26. September 2001 – 02. October 2001
    Theatre Romain – Villejuif Cedex – France
  • 26. September 2001 – 25. September 2001
    Le Cinematographe – Chateau Arnoux – France
  • 25. September 2001 – 30. September 2001
    IMAGO 2001 – Covilha, Portugal – Jury Price ★
  • 24. September 2001 – 24. October 2001
    Austrian Filmweek in Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo
  • 20. September 2001 – 23. September 2001
  • 20. September 2001 – 22. September 2001
    Osnabrück unabhängiges Filmfestival
  • 19. September 2001 – 25. September 2001
    Cinema Jacques – Les Ulis – France
  • 19. September 2001 – 25. September 2001
    Cinema les Yeux D'Elsa – Saint-Cyr-l'Ecole – France
  • 19. September 2001 – 25. September 2001
    Cinema le Jaures – Argeles-Sur-Mer – France
  • 18. September 2001 – 23. September 2001
    Nordisc Panorama Short- & Documentary Film Festival, Aarhus, DK
  • 17. September 2001 – 30. September 2001
    22nd Durban International Film Festival
  • 16. September 2001 – 29. September 2001
    Drama 2001 – International Short Film Festival – Second Price ★
  • 13. September 2001 – 20. September 2001
    Umea 2001 – 11. Film Festival
  • 12. September 2001 – 18. September 2001
    Cine Actuel – Mjc – Annemasse – France
  • 12. September 2001 – 18. September 2001
    Espace Jean Vilar – Arcueil – France
  • 11. September 2001
    Lecture "Introduction Multimedia and practical examples"
    Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Leyserstraße 6, 1140 Wien, September 11th, 2001, 9:00 a.m. to 17:00 p.m.
  • 29. August 2001 – 04. September 2001
    Cinema Palace – Epinal Cedex – France
  • 23. August 2001 – 01. September 2001
    Sao Paulo 2001 – Short Film Festival
  • 22. August 2001 – 21. August 2001
    Le Flandria – Bailleul – France
  • 22. August 2001 – 04. September 2001
    Aubervilliers 2001 – L'Etrange Festival
  • 20. August 2001
    Walter Rafelsberger begins his work as the main animator of "Fast Film".
  • 18. August 2001
    Filmcasino Wien – summer cinema
  • 18. August 2001
    Filmcasino Wien – summer cinema
  • 17. August 2001 – 23. August 2001
    Chicago Underground Film Festival
  • 17. August 2001 – 26. August 2001
    Sarajevo Film Festival – UIP-Award for the Best European Short Feature Film ★
  • 17. August 2001 – 26. August 2001
    Sarajevo Film Festival – Nominated for the "Short Film Award" of the "European Film Awards 2001"
  • 15. August 2001 – 21. August 2001
    Cinema Paradiso – Saint-Martin en Haut – France
  • 15. August 2001 – 21. August 2001
    Cinema Alain Resnais – Clermont-l'Herault – France
  • 08. August 2001 – 07. August 2001
    Cine 4 – Castillones – France
  • 06. August 2001
    On August 6th 2001, a second film company is founded: Amour Fou Filmproduktionen GmbH, together with Gabriele Kranzelbinder, Alexander Ivanceanu and the Wiener Volksbildungsverein/Polyfilm.
    In December Amour Fou Filmproduktion GmbH. and Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktionen G.m.b.H. move into a new office at Lindengasse 32, 1070 Wien.
  • 26. July 2001 – 04. August 2001
    Gorizia 2001 – Premio 'Sergio Amidei'
  • 18. July 2001 – 05. August 2001
    Melbourne 2001 – 50. International Film Festival
  • 13. July 2001
    Lecture in "Filmschule Wien" at the "Summer Camp in Arsparn" on screenplay writing, screenplay software and film analysis. 13.7.2001 from 9:00 to 13:00.
    Filmschule Wien, Pillergasse 8/23, A-1150 Vienna, Tel: 1-8954499
  • 12. July 2001 – 20. July 2001
    Puchon 2001 – Korea – International Fantastic Film Festival – Kodak Award – Jury's choice for short film ★
  • 11. July 2001 – 10. July 2001
    Studio-Cinema – Bastia – France
  • 07. July 2001 – 14. July 2001
    Montecatini Terme 2001 – 52. Mostra International Filmvideo – Adriano Asti Award for "Best Experimental Film" ★
  • 06. July 2001 – 22. July 2001
    New Zealand Film Festival
  • 05. July 2001 – 14. July 2001
    Karlovy Vary 2001 International Filmfestival
  • 03. July 2001 – 08. July 2001
    Vila do Conde 2001 – 9. Festival International de Curtas-Metragens
  • 28. June 2001
    On the occasion of "Kunststücke Pre-Opening Night" the "tx-transformator" is shown at the opening of the Museumsquartier. Museumsquartier, foyer of Hall E, ORF VIP area, Museumsplatz 1, 1070 Wien, 28.06.2001 at 20:00.
  • 28. June 2001 – 02. July 2001
    Roma 2001 – La Cittadella del Corto – FICE Award – Federation of Cinema D'Essai ★
  • 26. June 2001
  • 24. June 2001
    Opening of "Museum Ladin" in South Tyrol.
  • 23. June 2001
    Bulgarian Cultural Institute "Haus Wittgenstein"
  • 22. June 2001 – 23. June 2001
    Harstad – North Norwegen Culture Festival
  • 22. June 2001 – 29. June 2001
    Teplice 2001 – International Art Film Festival Trencianske – Don Quijote Award of the International Federation of Film Societies FICC ★
  • 22. June 2001 – 29. June 2001
    Teplice 2001 – International Art Film Festival Trencianske – Golden Key of Jury for the competition category Artefacts ★
  • 20. June 2001 – 24. June 2001
  • 15. June 2001 – 22. June 2001
    St. Petersburg 2001 – Message to Man Festival
  • 15. June 2001 – 21. June 2001
    Roma – Festival Arcipelago 2001 – eMovie - Best Short Film in Digital Video ★
  • 14. June 2001 – 19. June 2001
    Grimstad 2001 – The Norwegian Short Film Festival
  • 07. June 2001
    MOMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
  • 06. June 2001 – 10. June 2001
    Toronto – Worldwide Short Film Festival – Award for Best Experimental Short ★
  • 06. June 2001 – 12. June 2001
    Filmfest Stuttgart Ludwigsburg – Honorary mention of the Jury
  • 02. June 2001
    Arte broadcasts Virgil Widrich‘s short "linksrechts" ("leftright") on Saturday, 2.6.2001 at 17:30. Interviews with Bady Minck, Ruth Beckermann, Hans Hurch, Peter Tscherkassky, Florian Flicker, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Michael Kreihsl and Wolfgang Lehner shed light on the policital situation in a twisted land.
  • 02. June 2001 – 09. June 2001
    Hamburg 2001 – 17. International Kurzfilm-Festival – No Budget – François Ode Award of the Jury ★
  • 31. May 2001 – 03. June 2001
    Bamberg 2001 – Kurzfilmtage
  • 25. May 2001 – 03. June 2001
    EU Filmfestival Bangkok, Thailand
  • 25. May 2001 – 29. May 2001
    Krakow 2001 – International Short Film Festival – Honorary Prize of the Jury of the Students of Krakow ★
  • 21. May 2001 – 27. May 2001
    Lisboa 2001 – Festival Internacional de Cinema do Algarve
  • 15. May 2001 – 20. May 2001
    Turku -Tough Eye/Animated Film Festival 2001
  • 13. May 2001
    Lecture at the "Designers' Sunday (2)" at the exhibition "Stealing Eyeballs - Designing Media", 20 April to 20 May 2001 at the Künstlerhaus Vienna.
    Sunday, 13. Mai 2001, 14:00 with presentations by:
    farmersmanual (Wien) www.web.fm
    Tina Frank (Wien) www.frank.at, www.mego.at
    Oliver Kartak (Vienna)
    lia (Wien) www.re-move.org, www.turux.org (mit dextro), www.silverserver.co.at/lia
    Virgil Widrich (Vienna) www.widrichfilm.com
  • 10. May 2001 – 18. May 2001
    Cannes 2001 – Semaine International de la Critique – short night
  • 08. May 2001
    Paris – [batofar] Association Signe & Eau
  • 08. May 2001
    Sound recording for "Talking Pictures" at Tonstudio Saturn, Hermann Langschwert, Joanelligasse 12, 1060 Vienna.
  • 08. May 2001
    Paris – Repérages / Hi-box
  • 07. May 2001
    Admission as a member and – together with Dieter Berner, Wolfgang Glück, Michael Glawogger, Michael Kreihsl and Harald Sicheritz – in the "Verband der Filmregisseure Österreichs" (association of the Austrian movie directors.)
  • 04. May 2001 – 13. May 2001
    EU Filmfestival Bukarest
  • 04. May 2001
    Opening of the Lower Austrian Provincial Exhibition 2001 "Meaning & Being", "Castle & Man" in Waldreichs and Ottenstein, Austria.
  • 03. May 2001 – 05. May 2001
    New York Outer Limits 2001 – Millenium Workshop
  • 01. May 2001
    Member of drehbuchVERBAND Austria since May 2001.
  • 01. May 2001
    Paris – Repérages / Hi-box
  • 26. April 2001 – 07. May 2001
    Philadelphia – Festival of World Cinema 2001
  • 26. April 2001
    First tests with colour copies for "Fast Film" at Martin Pfannhauser's Printshop in 1030 in Landstraße Hauptstraße 55, 1030 Vienna.
  • 23. April 2001 – 24. April 2001
    Bordeaux 2001 – Travaux en courts
  • 19. April 2001
    Lecture on "film and multimedia production", "Copy Shop" and "tx-transform" at Studiengang MultiMedia (supervision: Gianni Stiletto) at Fachhochschule Salzburg, Techno Z, Schillerstraße 30, 5020 Salzburg, 19.4.2001 from 14:00 to 16:00.
  • 17. April 2001 – 29. April 2001
    Washington DC 2001 International Film Festival
  • 11. April 2001 – 28. April 2001
    Singapore 2001 International Film Festival
  • 06. April 2001 – 21. April 2001
    Hong Kong 2001 – International Film Festival
  • 05. April 2001 – 09. April 2001
    Filmfestival "Young European Cinema" – Torun, Poland
  • 31. March 2001 – 17. April 2001
    San Diego 2001 International Film Festival
  • 30. March 2001
    Utrecht – Circus Maximus
  • 27. March 2001 – 03. April 2001
    Festival du film de Paris
  • 27. March 2001 – 03. April 2001
    16. Festival du Film de Paris 01
  • 22. March 2001
    A 12 minute report about the "tx-transformator" is shown on 22.3.2001 in ORF/Kunststücke. Directed by Raphael Barth, Géza Horvát. Camera: Christian Roth, Attila Boa.
  • 22. March 2001
    A 12 minute report about the "tx-transformator" is shown on 22.3.2001 in ORF/Kunststücke. Directed by Raphael Barth, Géza Horvát. Camera: Christian Roth, Attila Boa.
  • 22. March 2001
    "Copy Shop" is shown on 22.3.2001 in ORF/Kunststücke.
  • 20. March 2001 – 25. March 2001
    During the Diagonale Film Festival shooting of interviews with Bady Minck, Ruth Beckermann, Hans Hurch, Peter Tscherkassky, Florian Flicker, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, Michael Kreihsl and Wolfgang Lehner for the short film "Leftright".
  • 20. March 2001
    Panel participation in the Diagonale-talk: "A year new film policy. Résumé and outlook."
    Date: Tuesday, 20.3.2001 at 15.00
    Place: Festival centre Thalia, Graz
    Podium:
    Representative / Representative of the BKA, cancelled
    Brigitta Burger Utzer (Sixpackfilm, for film promoters and -clubs)
    Michael Kreihsl (Austrian film directors' association)
    Andreas Gruber (FAustrian Filmmakers Association)
    Dietmar Zingl (cinema representative)
    Virgil Widrich (filmmaker)
    Erich Lackner (producer)
    Gerhard Schedl (ÖFI-Austrian Film Institute)
    Moderator: Robert Buchschwenter
  • 19. March 2001 – 25. March 2001
    Diagonale 2001 – Festival of Austrian Films
  • 19. March 2001 – 25. March 2001
    Diagonale 2001 – Festival of Austrian Films
  • 19. March 2001 – 25. March 2001
    The "tx-transformator" is exhibited at the Diagonale Film Festival in Graz.
  • 16. March 2001 – 18. March 2001
    Trondheim 01 – Minimalen Short Film Festival
  • 16. March 2001
    Shooting for "Talking Pictures" at Studio Dopplinger, 1150 Vienna.
  • 11. March 2001
    For "Copy Shop" Matthias Herrman makes a series of portraits of Virgil Widrich in his studio. 
  • 01. March 2001
    Three media stations are created for the "Museum Ladin" in South Tyrol.
  • 01. March 2001
    In March, checkpointmedia AG, a joint-stock company, is formed with Stefan Reiter, Stefan Unger and Dieter Göschler, which will be responsible for the multimedia branch in future. The film production company is maintained as an independent firm. The new company's first projects are the planning of the website for the Museumsquartier in Vienna, media stations for the Lower Austrian Regional Exhibition 2001, a DVD for the Museum of Natural History in Vienna and the creation of a database for Centropa on the life of Jews in the 14 countries of Central and Eastern Europe.
  • 27. February 2001
    New York Anthology Festival, USA
  • 15. February 2001
    Kulturverein Rossmarkt
  • 26. January 2001 – 03. February 2001
    Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival – Best music and sound design ★
  • 24. January 2001 – 04. February 2001
    International Film Festival Rotterdam
  • 24. January 2001
    On 26.1.2001 at 17:00 "Copy Shop" premieres in Rotterdam's Pathé Schouwburgplein and wins 30 awards at various film festivals in the following months. It is then bought by TV companies in 12 countries and is invited to over 100 international film festivals.
  • 23. January 2001
    Following its foundation filmpipeline GmbH. is sold to the parent company webfreetv.com AG.
  • 19. January 2001 – 27. January 2001
  • 19. January 2001
    A new short film, "Fast Film", is written.
  • 16. January 2001 – 22. January 2001
    Cine-Club de Velizy – Velizy Villacoublay – France
  • 01. January 2001
    Since 1.1.2001 member of Künstlerhaus, Association of Austrian Artists (Gesellschaft bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler Österreichs).

2000

1999

  • 17. December 1999
    Block seminar "Introduction Multimedia and practical examples"
    Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Leyserstraße 6, 1140 Wien, 17.12.1999, 16:00 to 20:00.
  • 24. November 1999
    Premiere of webfreetv.com cinema spot in Apollo Kino Vienna. Subsequent screenings in 65 cinemas.
  • 16. November 1999
    Lecture (together with Martin Reinhart) on "tx-transform" at Edit 99 (Frankfurt/Germany), 16.11.1999, 12:30 to 13:30
  • 15. November 1999 – 16. November 1999
    Edit 99 (Frankfurt/Germany)
  • 13. November 1999
    Verein Freiluftkino
  • 09. November 1999
    Completion of webfreetv.com cinema spot.
  • 31. October 1999
    Shooting for the webfreetv.com cinema spot in Studio Conny Nemec, 1210 Vienna.
  • 27. October 1999
    Member of collecting society of filmmakers (VDFS – Verwertungsgesellschaft der Filmschaffenden) since 27.10.1999.
  • 26. October 1999
    Leipzig 99 – 42. International Festival für Dokumentar- und Animationsfilm
  • 13. October 1999
    Reshoots with Piroska Szekely at Freyung in 1010 Vienna. Final completion of filming.
  • 28. September 1999
    Seminar "Introduction Multimedia"
    Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Leyserstraße 6, 1140 Wien, 28.9.1999, 13:20 to 14:10.
  • 25. September 1999
    Split 99 – 4. Festival of New Film and Video
  • 14. September 1999
    Filmclub Drosendorf
  • 31. August 1999 – 05. September 1999
    Fantoche 99 – 3. International Festival für Animationsfilm Zürich
  • 11. August 1999 – 26. September 1999
    Zeichenbau (Künstlerhaus Wien/Austria) Summer 99
  • 09. August 1999 – 11. September 1999
    In the summer the shooting of the first feature film "Heller als der Mond" ("Brighter than the Moon") starts on a shoestring budget and with a very young team. The movie is produced and directed by Virgil Widrich and stars Piroska Szekely, Christopher Buchholz, Horst Buchholz and Lars Rudolph, among others. The film is finished at the end of the year.
  • 07. August 1999
    Reading of the script "Brighter than the Moon" with the actors in Andino, Münzwardeingasse 2, 1060 Vienna from 13 to 15.00.
  • 28. July 1999 – 29. July 1999
    Test shooting with the real full moon which, however, proves to be too fast.
  • 01. July 1999 – 31. August 1999
    "MIR – Art in Space", Museo Civico, Bolzano
  • 24. June 1999 – 25. June 1999
    Lecture at the SAE – International Technology College Munich together with Martin Putz.
    24.6.1999, 13 to 16: 00 and 17 to 20:00: Classical drama "22 buildings blocks – the model of John Truby". Interactive storytelling using the CD-ROM "Robbi – Adventures on CD-ROM"
    25.6.1999, 13 to16: 00 and 17 to 20:00: "Calculation and production of multimedia projects"
    SAE – International Technology College, Hofer Straße 3, D-81737 Munich
  • 17. June 1999
    Reopening of the refurbished Technisches Museum Wien with 100 media stations.
  • 07. May 1999
    Lecture (together with Martin Reinhart) about "tx-transform" at EMAF – European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück/Germany).
    7.5.1999, 15:00 to 17:00, Kultur- und Kommunikationszentrum Lagerhalle, Rolandsmauer 26, D-49074 Osnabrück
  • 05. May 1999
    Lecture "The Painter and the CD-ROM". University of Applied Arts Vienna, an event series of master class o.Prof. Christian Ludwig Attersee.
    5.5.1999, 16:00 at Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H., Margaretenstraße 22, 1040 Vienna
  • 05. May 1999 – 09. May 1999
    EMAF – European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück/Germany)
  • 21. April 1999
    Diagonale 1999 – Festival of Austrian Films, Tournee
  • 06. April 1999 – 09. April 1999
    AISB 99 Convention (Edinburgh/UK)
  • 01. April 1999
    "Digital Documentary" Walker Art Center (Minneapolis/USA) 1999
  • 24. March 1999
    Nuclear Body – A video project by Davide Grassi with tx-transformations, March 1999 (Ljubljana/Slovenia)
  • 20. March 1999
    Bringham Young University – Film class
  • 16. March 1999 – 21. March 1999
    Diagonale 1999 – Festival of Austrian Films
  • 07. March 1999
    Test shooting of a scene in a finished set of the film "Nordrand" by Barbara Albert.
  • 05. March 1999
  • 03. February 1999
    Akademie 3000 (München/Germany) February 1999
  • 01. February 1999
    On February 1st, 1999, the domain www.widrichfilm.com is registered.
  • 26. January 1999
    The production company is being made into a limited company (Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H.).
  • 16. January 1999
    Lecture "Interactive Screenwriting" at the Center for Publishing and Media Management at the Donau-Universität Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau, 16.1.1999, 9:30 to 18:30.
  • 15. January 1999
    National Museum of Photography, Film & Television, Bradford, Great Britain, permanent exhibition
  • 02. January 1999 – 17. June 1999
    In the course of the refurbishment of the Technisches Museum Wien one hundred different media stations (including four cinemas) are created by a team of 35 specialists under the supervision of Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H. These stations give visitors the chance to discover more about the individual themes by means of image and film projection, audio stations, acoustic installations and interactive text, image, music, video, animation and 3D technology applications.

1998

  • 19. December 1998
    Lecture "Interactive Screenwriting" at the Center for Publishing and Media Management at the Donau-Universität Krems, Dr.-Karl-Dorrek-Straße 30, 3500 Krems an der Donau, 19.12.1998 from 9:30 to 12:00.
  • 05. December 1998 – 06. December 1998
    WDR Computernacht 1998, Siemens Nixdorf Museum, Paderborn
  • 30. November 1998 – 02. December 1998
    Presentation at the IST 98 exhibition, Digital Theatre, Austria Center Vienna, 30.11.1998, 15:30.
  • 02. November 1998
    Report on the premiere of "tx-transform" on 2.11.1998 at 22:30 Uhr in ORF 2/Treffpunkt Kultur.
  • 01. November 1998
    A number of tx-transform projects in the areas of film, multimedia and art exhibition are planned in Austria, England, Italy, Switzerland and the USA.
  • 15. October 1998 – 31. December 1999
    "Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H." moves into its first office in Margaretenstraße 22 (close to Freihaus), 1040 Vienna, which is there until  31.12.1999.
  • 13. October 1998
    World premiere of "tx-transform" at Filmcasino Vienna.
  • 28. September 1998
    "C't - magazine for computer and technology" reports in issue 20 on page 53 with image examples on tx-transform.
  • 24. September 1998
    "tx-transform" at "ORF/Kunststücke", 24.9.1998 at 23.05, FS 1
  • 18. September 1998
    "tx-transform" on TV: Modern Times, at 22.35, ORF FS2.
  • 09. September 1998
    Lecture on "tx-transform" together with Martin Reinhart on the "Ars Electronica".
    Ars Electronica Center, seminary room, Hauptstraße 2, 4040 Linz, 09.09.1998, 11:30 to 13:00.
  • 07. September 1998 – 12. September 1998
    "tx-transform" is presented with 40 other submissions from a group of 1.500 at the "Ars Electronica" in Linz and is acclaimed by the international audience.
  • 22. August 1998
    Registration of the domain www.tx-transform.com
  • 12. August 1998
    Shooting of tx-transformations at Peter Joachim Filmservice, Edelsinnstraße 15, 1120 Vienna.
  • 12. August 1998
    Test shooting of a scene for "Copy Shop" with Enrico Jakob at Peter Joachim Filmservice, Edelsinnstraße 15, 1120 Vienna.
  • 02. July 1998 – 04. July 1998
    Screenplay software
    Presentation and discussion of the programs "StoryLine Pro" and "Dramatica" including film analysis.
    SAE – School of Audio Engineering, Vienna, July 2nd and 4th, 1998
  • 22. June 1998
    tx-transform is a film technique that transposes the time axis (t) and one of the space axes (x or y) with one another. Normally, each individual frame of the film depicts the entire space, but only a moment in time (1/24 second). With tx-transformed films, it is just the opposite: each frame shows the entire time, but only a tiny portion of space – if one cuts alongside the horizontal space axis, the left portion of the picture turns into the "the before", the right one into "the after".

    This lecture is held together with Martin Reinhart.
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Schottengasse 3, 1010 Vienna, June 22nd, 1998, 18.00 p.m.
  • 01. May 1998
    In one of few breaks from regular work, a screenplay is written for a new short film: "Copy Shop." After the shift in time and space, this film describes a shift in the identity of the observer in film and the story of a man who copies himself until he fills up the entire world.
  • 22. March 1998
    Model- and vfx shooting for "tx-transform".
  • 24. January 1998 – 25. January 1998
    Filming for "tx-transform" at the Railway Museum Strasshof an der Nordbahn.
  • 21. January 1998
    Salzburg’s screenplay prize 1997 for "Heller als der Mond/Brighter than the Moon" ★
  • 09. January 1998 – 04. July 1998
    Lecture "How to write interactive dialogues?".
    Writing interactive dialogues seems to be impossible. How can a conversation contain numerous possibilities without being arbitrary at the same time? In the interactive dialogue scenes the CD-ROM "Robbi – a CD-ROM adventure story" the characters in many scenes speak only when instructed by a mouse click, the user can even decide who, when and how often the character speaks. Despite these options, the talking animals have themes and thoughts supporting both the personality of each character while advancing the story. With a budget of 5 million Austrian Schillings "Robbi - a CD-ROM adventure story"is one of the most elaborate multimedia products ever made in Austria. Over 120 graphic designers, technicians and animators worked for one year on this production. For "Robbi", Virgil Widrich was scriptwriter and production manager.
    SAE – School of Audio Engineering, Vienna, January 9th, 10th and 16th, 1998, July 2nd and 4th, 1998
  • 01. January 1998 – 13. October 1998
    A marriage of film and electronics gives birth to the short film entitled "tx-transform," which was created together with Martin Reinhart; this short presents an innovative new technique which transposes the time and space axes in film.

1997

  • 07. November 1997
    CD-ROM production and budgeting
    Rough calculation, schedule, presentation, ordering, planning, detailed calculation, contracts with employees, graphic concept, copywriting, interactive script, daily work of the production manager, organisation of finance, supply chain, graphic design, programming, beta version, artwork, golden master, backup , post processing.
    Höhere Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt, Leyserstraße 6, 1140 Wien, November 7th, 1997, 8:30 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 15:00.
  • 07. October 1997 – 24. February 1998
    Lectures in "Filmschule Wien": 18 lessons between October 7th, 1997 and February 24th, 1998 on screenplay writing, screenplay software and film analysis.
    Filmschule Wien, Pillergasse 8/23, A-1150 Vienna, Tel: 1-8954499
  • 01. October 1997
    After this excursion into the world of this interactive medium, renewal of work with linear story-telling: The screenplay "Heller als der Mond" ("Brighter than the Moon") is completed. The story of aliens – both domestic and foreign – is awarded Salzburg’s screenplay prize 1997.
  • 27. September 1997 – 27. June 1998
    Screenplay software
    Presentation and discussion of the programs "StoryLine Pro" and "Dramatica" including film analysis.
    SAE – School of Audio Engineering, Vienna, September 27th, October 4th and 31st, November 1st, 1997; June 25th and 27th, 1998
  • 25. August 1997 – 29. August 1997
    CD-ROM production and budgeting
    Rough calculation, schedule, presentation, ordering, planning, detailed calculation, contracts with employees, graphic concept, copywriting, interactive script, daily work of the production manager, organisation of finance, supply chain, graphic design, programming, beta version, artwork, golden master, backup , post processing.
    SAE – School of Audio Engineering, Vienna, August 25th to 29th, 1997
  • 13. July 1997 – 02. August 1997
    Workshop "Traismauer goes to Hollywood"
    From 13 July to 2 August 1997 the "First International Summer Academy of Film & TV" is taking place in Traismauer. A part of the training consists of three lectures by Virgil Widrich about the screenplay, screenplay software and film analysis.
  • 10. July 1997
    Feature in ORF-Treffpunkt on the "Salzburg Festival CD-ROM", 10.7.1997 at 22:30.
  • 08. May 1997
    At the suggestion of Peter Tscherkassky first meeting with Martin Reinhart at 10:00 in the Blue Box, Richtergasse 8, 1070 Vienna.
  • 16. February 1997 – 05. May 1997
    The CD-ROM is established as a medium. On behalf of Chocolate Management und Verlag GmbH Virgil Widrich develops the didactic concepts and the interactive characters and writes the screenplay and dialogues for a four-part mathematics series.
  • 02. January 1997 – 01. July 1997
    On behalf of Chocolate Management und Verlag GmbH, concept and production management for the "Salzburg Festival CD-ROM," which includes a database containing the credits from all performances given over the past 75 years. Production manager: Virgil Widrich.

1996

  • 11. December 1996
    Workshop "Screenplay structures based on 'Brighter than the moon'" for pupils of BRG 13, Wenzgasse 7, room 227, 1130 Vienna, 16:20 to 18:00 p.m.
  • 20. November 1996
    Virgil Widrich's first website goes online, at that time at: http://members.magnet.at/v.widrich/
  • 18. November 1996
    Lecture "How to write interactive dialogues?".
    Writing interactive dialogues seems to be impossible. How can a conversation contain numerous possibilities without being arbitrary at the same time? In the interactive dialogue scenes the CD-ROM "Robbi – a CD-ROM adventure story" the characters in many scenes speak only when instructed by a mouse click, the user can even decide who, when and how often the character speaks. Despite these options, the talking animals have themes and thoughts supporting both the personality of each character while advancing the story. With a budget of 5 million Austrian Schillings "Robbi – a CD-ROM adventure story"is one of the most elaborate multimedia products ever made in Austria. Over 120 graphic designers, technicians and animators worked for one year on this production. For "Robbi", Virgil Widrich was scriptwriter and production manager.
    Department of Med. Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Freyung 6/2, 1010 Vienna, 18.11.1996, 18:00 p.m.
  • 16. November 1996
    Filmhauskino Wien – "Super-8 lives! Old and new masters of Super-8"
  • 08. November 1996 – 24. November 1996
    Three film analyses of Woody Allen's "Bullets Over Broadway" in Filmschule Wien: 3 lessons on November 8th, 10th and 24th, 1996.
    Filmschule Wien, Pillergasse 8/23, A-1150 Vienna, Tel: 1-8954499
  • 02. October 1996
    Presentation at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Hall 4 C, Booth 1114, 2.10.1996 at 15:00.
  • 04. August 1996
    Interview with Riccardo Muti for the CD-ROM "New Year's Concerts by the Vienna Philharmonics" by Chocolate Management und Verlag GmbH.
  • 26. July 1996 – 01. September 1996
    Advertising and organisation of youth subscriptions of the Salzburg Festival 1996 on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Families and Youth.
    26.7. to 31.7.1996: "Festspielwerkstatt der Jugend". In this 5-day seminar, 40 young people from all of Austria work on approaches to the opera "The Rake's Progress" by Igor Stravinsky, which is  visited together on the last night.
    30.8. to 1.9.1996: "Festspielbesuch der Jugend" for 100 young people including orchestral concert at Großes Festspielhaus with Arnold Schönberg's "Variationen für Orchester op. 31" and Bruckner's 5th Symphony (conductor: Riccardo Chailly), opera performance of "Moses und Aron" by Arnold Schönberg (conductor: Pierre Boulez, director: Peter Stein).
  • 13. June 1996
    Lecture "The script from the computer". Presentation of the possibilities and impossibilities of "Dramatica" and "storyline Pro".
    Department of Med. Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence, University of Vienna, Freyung 6/2, 1010 Vienna, 13.6.1996, 18:00 p.m.
  • 03. June 1996
    An opera film project named "Prop Opera" by Peter Greenaway in which, for the first time, an opera would be filmed by the singers with helmet-mounted cameras, is abandoned due to problems with the composer.
  • 31. May 1996
    Lecture "The Internet for filmmakers": To what extent can filmmakers benefit from the opportunities of the Internet? This is no trip for computer geeks, but for people who already have enough work and intend to use the Internet wisely. An evening with the 60 000 films of the "International Movie Database", the "Virtual Film Festival" as well as the numerous screenplays, which are available in their entirety on the Internet.
    Medienlabor München, Lothringerstr. 13 Rgb, 81667 München, 31.5.1996, 17:00 to 20:00 p.m.
  • 30. May 1996
    Lecture "The script from the computer". Presentation of the possibilities and impossibilities of "Dramatica" and "storyline Pro".
    Medienlabor München, Lothringerstr. 13 Rgb, 81667 München, 30.5.1996, 19:30 to 21:30 p.m.
  • 15. May 1996
    A film database is commissioned by the Austrian Film Commission for the "Europeans" at the Cannes film festival.
  • 26. April 1996
    A film database is developed for the short-film distributor Sixpack Film; this database is used to administer the rental of Austrian short films throughout Austria and abroad.
  • 04. March 1996
    Business registration: public relation consulting
  • 03. January 1996 – 20. December 1996
    First creative work on a CD-ROM: He writes the screenplay and dialogues for "Robbi - Abenteuer auf CD-ROM." The story of a baby seal which flees hunters to a desert island becomes a CD-ROM bestseller for children with sales of 20,000. Virgil Widrich develops for this project an interactive dialogue engine, which gives archetypal characters concrete thoughts and injects new dramatic situations. This invention is met with interest around the world and is presented in lectures in Austria and abroad (e.g. at the Medienlabor München and the University of Vienna‘s Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence).

1995

  • 01. December 1995
    Work with screenplay software begins this year, leading to numerous lectures and articles on this subject.
  • 01. December 1995 – 08. December 1995
    Last Diagonale is held in Salzburg with the new director, Heinrich Mis (then ORF's Kunststücke). Parts of the new program is presented on the Internet for the first time under curator Konrad Becker.
  • 21. July 1995 – 31. August 1995
    Advertising and organisation of youth subscriptions of the Salzburg Festival 1995 on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Families and Youth.
    Organisation of two groups:
    24.8. to 26.8.1995 with Luigi Pirandello: "Die Riesen vom Berge" (Perner-Insel) and William Shakespeare: "Antonius und Kleopatra" (Felsenreitschule)
    29.8. to 31.8.1995 with Luigi Pirandello: "Die Riesen vom Berge" (Perner-Insel) and Béla Bartok: "Herzog Blaubarts Burg" / Arnold Schönberg: "Erwartung" (Großes Festspielhaus).
  • 20. July 1995 – 30. September 1995
    A database for funding cinemas is created for "hundertjahrekino" (curated by Hans Hurch); comparisons and evaluations of the data from all movie theatres in Austria are now possible. 
  • 10. July 1995
    Lecture "How to establish a new film festival?" by the example of Diagonale, festival of Austrian film.
    International Centre for Culture & Management, Techno-Z, Jakob Harringer Str. 5A, 5020 Salzburg, 10.7.1995, 16:30 to 18:00 p.m.

1994

  • 01. December 1994 – 08. December 1994
    The second Diagonale is organized in Salzburg with Virgil Widrich as production manager. A film database is created which can be used for automatic layout of the entire catalog of the Austrian Film Commission and the Diagonale in a few minutes (by means of "database publishing").
  • 20. August 1994 – 26. August 1994
    Advertising and organisation of youth subscriptions of the Salzburg Festival 1994 on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Families and Youth.
    Organisation of two groups:
    20.8. to 22.8.2994 with ORF concert (Igor Stravinsky: "Le Rossignol", Francis Poulenc: "La Voix Humaine") and W.A. Mozart: "La Clemenza di Tito", Kleines Festspielhaus
    24.8. to 26.8.8.1994 with W.A. Mozart: "La Clemenza di Tito", Kleines Festspielhaus and ORF-Konzert (Karlheinz Stockhausen).

1993

  • 26. October 1993 – 26. November 1993
    "Wien Modern 1993" from 26 October to 26 November 1993 at Wiener Konzerthaus: PR for the sales of the "General passes" 
  • 02. August 1993 – 05. August 1993
    Translation of the German subtitles for Peter Greenaway’s film The Baby of Mâcon.
  • 26. May 1993 – 27. July 1993
    Work on the CALSI project for the Vienna Festival exhibit entitled "Der Zerbrochene Spiegel." In this project, the largest computer-generated image in the world, which was entered into the "Guinness Book of Records", is affixed to the outer wall of the Kunsthalle. Curators: Kaspar König, Hans Ulrich Obrist.

    From the press release: on the occasion of the Festival exhibition "The Broken Mirror", Ed Ruscha, the American superstar of pop art, visits Austria and designs the two largest posters that Europe has ever seen: 10 by 40 meters at the "Messepalast" and 10 times 54 meters at the "Kunsthalle". This worldwide unique project was only possible through the cooperation of Kunsthalle Wien, Wiener Festwochen, Museum in Progress and ArtBekoCreativ, the inventors of the CALSI technique.

    "Der Zerbrochene Spiegel", 26. May to 25. July 1993 Museumsquartier/Messepalast Halle B and Kunsthalle Wien
  • 26. March 1993
    Screening for the Diagonale team, including Peter Tscherkassky and Martin Schweighofer, Gumpendorferstr. 28/16, 26.03.1993, 20:00.
  • 15. March 1993 – 08. December 1993
    In March, work begins on a total overhaul of the Diagonale, the new "Festival of Austrian Film." The foundation of the new festival is put into place together with Martin Schweighofer and Peter Tscherkassky: programming, organisation, infrastructure, sponsor acquisition, ticket-sales system, visitor organisation and service, catalogue production, events and marketing for them, and advertising.
  • 13. March 1993 – 27. March 1993
    "Hörgänge – Musik in Österreich 1993" from 13 to 27 March 1992 at Wiener Konzerthaus: PR for the sales of the "General passes" 
  • 27. February 1993 – 07. March 1993
    "Resonanzen 1993" from 27 February to 7 March 1993 at Wiener Konzerthaus: PR for the sales of the "General passes" 

1992

  • 24. October 1992 – 27. November 1992
    "Wien Modern 1992" from 24 October to 27 November 1992 at Wiener Konzerthaus: PR for the sales of the "General passes" 
  • 24. October 1992 – 27. November 1992
    Frank Zappa live at Wiener Konzerthaus: "The Yellow Shark" with Shankar, LaLaLa Human Steps and Trilok Gurtu on 26. and 27 September 1992. PR for the ticket sales to students.
  • 05. October 1992 – 19. November 1992
    Press relations for the exhibition "About Painting - Encounters with History". Artistic Director: René Block

    Academy of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz 3, 1010 Vienna
    Opening on 19.11.1992 at 20.00.
    Exhibition from 20.11. until 31.12.1992
    Open: daily, (except Tuesday) from 10:00 to 18.00
    24./25. and 26.12.1992 closed.

    Participating artists: Richard Hamilton, Rémy Zaugg, On Kawara, Imi Knoebel, Per Kirkeby and Ilya Kabakov.
  • 01. October 1992 – 20. November 1992
    First artistic cooperation on a short film by Peter Greenaway, "The falls remake," which was not completed after a few shooting days in Vienna (5.11. to 12.11.1992).
  • 02. September 1992
    Registered address: Gumpendorferstraße 28/16, 1060 Vienna
  • 11. June 1992 – 08. November 1992
    Six months of work on Peter Greenaway’s internationally acclaimed exhibit "100 Objects to represent the world" in Vienna’s Hofburg, the Semper Depot and the Academy of Fine Arts.
  • 03. June 1992
    Completion of WIFI seminar "Freelance – difficulties, opportunities and paths"
  • 23. April 1992 – 04. May 1992
    "Hörgänge – Musik in Österreich 1992" from 23. April to 4 May 1992 at Wiener Konzerthaus: PR for the sales of the "General passes" 
  • 19. March 1992
    Together with Johannes Rosenberger, Constantin Wulff and other filmmakers co-founding of the Association "Navigator Film".

1991

  • 22. December 1991
    Five years after the completion Matinee for the former film crew, Mönchsberg 17, 5020 Salzburg, 22.12.1991 at 11:00
  • 03. November 1991 – 02. November 1992
    Activities for the advertising agency "Hagler & Partner" in Vienna. Text and design of advertising campaigns for Philips, VMG u.v.a.
  • 18. October 1991 – 24. November 1991
    "Wien Modern 1991" from 18 October to 24 November 1991 at Wiener Konzerthaus: PR for the sales of the "General passes" 
  • 26. September 1991
    Registered address: Lange Gasse 24/14, 1080 Vienna
  • 31. August 1991
    Author of a newspaper article in the Salzburger Nachrichten about the experiences as a prop man in the production of The Magic Flute in the Grosses Festspielhaus Salzburg.
  • 01. July 1991
    Return to work with computers: An animation film database is developed for the Academy of Applied Arts in Vienna to administer the presentation of films at festivals around the world. The fact that computers and film are progressively growing into a single medium does not go unnoticed after 1991: start of work with CD-ROMs.
  • 15. June 1991 – 26. June 1991
    Commissioned by Radio Kärnten content consulting and organisation of the "Woche der Begegnung 1991", Burghof, Paradeisergasse 7, 9010 Klagenfurt, 15. to 26.6.1991, at 23:00 daily.
  • 13. June 1991
    The precarious situations experienced by art cinemas in Vienna begin to affect "Classic Films." The distributor is sold to one of the partners and reduces the extent of its activities.

1990

  • 15. September 1990 – 31. October 1990
    Beginning of years of cooperation in marketing the then-new series of concerts put on by Vienna’s Konzerthaus ,"Wien modern," for Karsten Witt.
  • 04. May 1990 – 02. June 1990
    Invitation to Hollywood. John Bailey’s assistant for the comedy The Search for intelligent life in the universe with Lily Tomlin ("Nashville," "The Player," "Short Cuts").

1989

1988

  • 17. March 1988
    On the occasion "50 years after the 'Anschluss'" lecture at the Academic high school in Salzburg on "concepts of the enemy" for the 7th and 8th grade.
    Akademisches Gymnasium Salzburg, Am Rainberg, Sinnhubstraße 15, 5020 Salzburg, 17.3.1988 from 8:00 to 12:00 and 13:00 to 16:00 Uhr.
  • 01. January 1988
    Classic Films' re-release of films by Andy Warhol and Max Fleischer as part of retrospectives. Distribution of all works of Wim Wenders in Austria begins.

1987

1986

  • 01. November 1986
    For the US TV series "War and Remembrance" one night long extra at Heldenplatz (which stood for the destroyed Berlin).
  • 12. January 1986 – 30. November 1986
    A science-fiction film which takes place in a microcosm is planned, but not realised.
  • 10. January 1986
    Leaves the Vienna Film Academy after a few weeks.

1985

  • 11. December 1985
    At age 18, his first public speech (on "Vom Geist der Zeit" at the invitation of the Academy of Design in Linz).
  • 30. October 1985
    Invitation to Cinecitta from Johannes Schaaf to the shooting of Michael Ende's Momo. The Name of the Rose with Sean Connery is being shot in the neighbouring studios at the same time – the process is being observed quite closely.
  • 16. October 1985
    "Vom Geist der Zeit" is screened at the Austrian Film Days in Wels. The film consists of over 1.000 shots, some of which were exposed over 20 times in the camera. Horst Christoph wrote the following comment in Profil: "Two hours of cinematic fireworks!"
  • 12. October 1985
    Registered address: Kleine Stadtgutgasse 6-8, 1020 Vienna
  • 08. October 1985
    Barely passes his A-levels at the Akademisches Gymnasium in Salzburg.
  • 27. September 1985
    Accepted at the Vienna Film Academy.
  • 21. April 1985
    Premiere of "Vom Geist der Zeit" in the Mozart-Kino in Salzburg.

1984

  • 01. January 1984
    This year marks the beginning of his growing love of computers: He programs a number of video games on a Sinclair computer with colourful keys.
  • 01. January 1984
    Work as an extra and then property man for the Salzburg Festival for productions by Jean-Pierre Ponelle, Michael Hampe, Gernot Friedel, Johannes Schaaf and Herbert von Karajan to raise the Schilling 70,000 (today about Euro 5.000) budget for "Vom Geist der Zeit."

1983

  • 01. January 1983
    After lengthy preparations, work begins on his first full-length feature film, "Vom Geist der Zeit." ("The Spirit of Time") While his grades drop, a 14-months’ shooting produces an 112-minute genre cross-over mixing action, horror and science fiction in the past, present and future. Peter Handke plays a guest role as an excited passer-by and lay actors from his school play the other parts. The living room in his parents’ house is closed for a period of almost two years due to filming.

1982

  • 12. November 1982
    World premiere of "Monster in Salzburg" on 12.11.1982 at 18:00 hrs in his parents' house, Mönchsberg 17, 5020 Salzburg.
  • 30. October 1982
    Completion of the sound for "Monster in Salzburg".
  • 21. August 1982
    Creates on 21.8.1982 a 17-minute documentation of the performance of "Everyman for Children" In the garden of the neighbors.
  • 01. January 1982 – 12. November 1982
    Production of his first film with real actors at age 15. Libgart Schwarz, star of the Berliner Schaubühne, plays a role in a Godzilla-inspired science-fiction film entitled "Monster in Salzburg." Models are built of a number of Salzburg's streets for this work. The monster is a 30-cm wooden doll with yarn hair, which is brought to life by means of stop-motion. His study of film theory begins this year with the purchase of numerous relevant books and the analysis of screenplays.

1981

  • 30. October 1981
    Gets his first Super-8 movie camera with sound, a Braun Nizo 3056 in the fall.
  • 02. October 1981 – 03. October 1981
    Creation of a cartoon titled "For Susi".
  • 01. January 1981 – 02. May 1981
    Watching a documentary on Walt Disney on television, he starts working on his own animated film. Within five months between 23.12.1980 and 2.5.1981, the animated film Auch Farbe kann träumen" ("Color can dream") is produced from more than 1,000 cut-up overhead transparencies.

1980

  • 24. December 1980 – 04. February 1981
    "Christmas 1980": From the box text: "My fifth sound film was a pure casual work. On 23.12.1980 I was given two REVUE-films, which I shot during the Christmas preparations and the Christmas party. At the same time, a hidden cassette recorder recorded our very wrong singing. The film was edited on 26.1.1981 and set to music on 4.2.1981. It is 26 meters or 5:36 min long. Virgil Widrich, 6.2.1981"
  • 03. December 1980 – 08. December 1980
    A first test for a longer animated film: between 3 and 8.12.1980 an animation is created about a small man that failed to open a refrigerator. Length: 17 seconds.
  • 30. September 1980
    Completion of dubbing and scoring.
  • 20. September 1980
    Completion of picture editing.
  • 02. September 1980 – 30. September 1980
    In Autumn a portrait of the Carinthian "mirror artist" Arnulf Komposch entitled "3 x Ulf" is made. From September 2nd to 4th 1980, Shooting takes place in his workshop and living quarters in Klagenfurt, Tarviserstraße 4H.
  • 22. August 1980
    Completion of the sound editing.
  • 12. August 1980
    Completion of the image editing.
  • 14. June 1980 – 01. August 1980
    Filming for "Fried Meat" on 14. and 22.6., 25.7. and 1.8.1980 in Salzburg on the Mönchsberg.
  • 14. June 1980 – 22. August 1980
    "Gebratenes Fleisch", a story of crime and cannibalism inspired by Roald Dahl, is shot in Summer.
  • 24. May 1980
    Sound editing completion of "My Homelife".
  • 24. May 1980
    Sound editing completion of "Gusti Kupelwieser".
  • 28. April 1980
    Film editing completion of the documentary "Gusti Kupelwieser".
  • 06. April 1980 – 16. April 1980
    Filming of the documentary "Gusti Kupelwieser", about the grandmother of the director (1907-1987).
  • 27. March 1980
    Film editing completion of "My Homelife".
  • 01. March 1980 – 24. May 1980
    "My Homelife", a documentary about his parent's old house is shot and finished in Spring.
  • 11. February 1980 – 31. December 1980
    Aged 12, finally given his first Super-8 camera, a Revue Cockpit S8L, and shoots his first three films that same year.

1979

  • 27. September 1979
    Daily observation of Ronald Neame filming the spy comedy Hopscotch with Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson near his parents' house.
  • 07. August 1979
    First appearance as an extra in a production of the Salzburg Festival on August 7, 1979: "Die Zauberflöte" at the Felsenreitschule under the direction of Jean-Pierre Ponnelle.

1977

  • 22. September 1977
    On September 22, 1977, Maria Lassnig is shooting a part of her film "Fairy Tale" at the house Mönchsberg 17 in Salzburg. Together with the sisters Mechtild and Theresa performer with a suit of armor.

1973

  • 01. January 1973
    First time in a cinema. After a showing of Bambi, his parents explain that visiting the actors behind the stage is not possible. First impression of the way film works.

1967

  • 19. May 1967
    Registered address: Mönchsberg 17, 5020 Salzburg
  • 16. May 1967
    Born in Salzburg on May 16, 1967, and grows up in a 500-year-old house on the Mönchsberg. Neighbor of Peter Handke; Wim Wenders is a frequent visitor.