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 over 225 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, music videos, installations, exhibitions and entire museums, as well as in international research projects.


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25. May 2022 – 30. May 2022: Jury
Together with Abigail Addison and Anastasiya Verlinska member of the jury for the second International Competition "AAAnimation Avantgarde" of the Vienna Shorts.
31. May 2022 – 06. June 2022: There is exactly enough time Film screening
38th Short Film Festival Hamburg - "Triple Axel" Competition - Hamburg - Germany
01. June 2022: There is exactly enough time Film screening
River Film Festival – Veneto – Italy
01. June 2022: There is exactly enough time Film screening
XLNT Film Festival – Santa Barbara – USA
02. June 2022: There is exactly enough time Film screening
Panama City Independent Film Festival – Panama City Florida – USA
03. June 2022: There is exactly enough time Film screening
11th International Short Film Festival Pune 2019 – Pune – India
05. June 2022 – 10. June 2022: tx-reverse Film screening
Paleochora Lost World Short Film Festival – Paleochora – Greece

Microconcert Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg, 2022
Visualization for a microconcert, a digital music project of the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg under the musical direction of Kent Nagano.

There is exactly enough time, 2021
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 35 international film awards!

tx-reverse, 2018
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 33 international film awards!

Light Matter, 2018
A black-and-white film that lets you see colors. Winner of 12 international film awards!

tx-mirror, 2018
The interactive 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, 2017
"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 46 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.

checkpointmedia GmbH – Multimedia Productions, 2001
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 39 international awards and was nominated for the Oscar 2001 (best short film).