Virgil Widrich

Screenwriter, film director, multimedia artist and professor of "Art & Science" at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His short film "Copy Shop" was nominated for an Oscar. In total, his work has been awarded more than 130 international awards. Virgil Widrich is involved in a variety of roles as project manager, conceptionalist, exhibition designer or artistic director in the creation of screenplays, short and feature films, installations, exhibitions and entire museums, as well as in international research projects.


News

22. November 2018: Copy Shop Film screening
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow – "Between the media – Virgil Widrich"
22. November 2018: Fast Film Film screening
Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow – "Between the media – Virgil Widrich"
11. October 2018 – 10. February 2019: tx-reverse 360° Film screening
The spatial installation "tx-reverse 360°" can be seen from 10.10.2018 to 10.2.2019 in the PanoramaLab of the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe.
20. September 2018 – 28. November 2018: Nena & Dave Stewart: Be my Rebel Film screening, Award
Amarcort Film Festival – Rimini – Italien – official selection
21. July 2018 – 14. December 2018: make/real Film screening
The W:OW Project 2017 – We Are One World – Torrance Art Museum – Los Angeles/CA
14. July 2018 – 10. February 2019: back track Film screening
Film contribution to the exhibition "Art in Motion. 100 masterpieces with and through media" at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe
12. July 2018 – 10. February 2019: tx-mirror
The real-time installation "tx-mirror" by Martin Reinhart and Virgil Widrich is part of the exhibition "Art in Motion. 100 masterpieces with and through media" presented at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe.

Light Matter, 2018
A black-and-white film that lets you see colors.

tx-reverse 360°, 2018
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°.

tx-mirror, 2018
The real-time installation "tx-mirror" is a magical mirror with a camera: one can look at oneself and explore the laws of a universe in which time and space have been reversed.

Nena & Dave Stewart: Be my Rebel, 2018
"Be my rebel", the first collaboration of the two music legends Nena and Dave Stewart, premiered at Nenas 40th anniversary on stage. Winner of 35 international film awards!

Night of a 1000 Hours, 2016
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.

Vienna table trip, 2016
A promotional film for Vienna, awarded with 24 international awards or honorary mentions.

back track, 2015
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.

checkpointmedia GmbH – Multimedia Productions
As one of the most successful representatives of "Creative Industries Vienna/Austria," checkpointmedia acts as an interface between arts/culture and the business world.

Fast Film, 2003
"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 36 international awards.

Copy Shop, 2001
The story of a man who copies himself until he fills up the entire world. The film won 37 international awards and was nominated for the Oscar 2001 (best short film).