Overview of Virgil Widrich’s films in various formats (short, animated and feature films, experimental and avant-garde films): from future works still in production to the first Super 8 films made at Mönchsberg in Salzburg at the age of 13.
Romeo and Juliet in the microcosm of the human body. Forbidden love between the young Bacterium Micromeo and Antibody-girl Globia threatens the harmony of the immune system.
Oskar Salomonowitz, the 12-year-old son of filmmakers Anja Salomonowitz and Virgil Widrich, had drawn 206 frames of a flip book when he died in an accident. Using the remaining blank sheets, his father continued drawing the film. Winner of 86 international film awards!
A space time cut through cinema. 20 years after Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich used this film technique for the first time in a short film (“tx-transform”, 1998), they again deal with the question of which previously unseen world arises when space and time are interchanged, aptly in a cinema and at full 360°. Winner of 39 international film awards!
“Be my rebel”, the first collaboration of the two music legends Nena and Dave Stewart, premiered at Nena’s 40th anniversary on stage. Winner of 48 international film awards!
A family, a night, a murder and a forbidden passion: When the Ullich family meets and their deceased ancestors appear, the events in their Viennese palace turn over.
Virgil Widrich’s short film is a 7-minute 3D-remix of feature films from the 1950s and 60s which were projected on glass and photographed in 3D. Winner of 14 international film awards!
“Fast Film” is an animated homage to motion pictures, hand-made by folding 65,000 print outs of film frames into three-dimensional objects. The film won 35 international awards.
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.
The story of a man who copies himself until he fills up the entire world. The film won 43 international awards and was nominated for the Oscar 2001 (best short film).