FOCUS on Gabriele Mathes – Filmprogramm 2

Gabriele Mathes has been captivating audiences with her trenchant short films for over 35 years. The Outstanding Artist Award winner always surprises with new narrative styles and formal approaches, very often interweaving insights into her private environment with larger (socio-)political contexts.

The cinematic work of Mathes, who studied directing at the Vienna Film Academy under Peter Patzak and Axel Corti, is characterised by an individual style and a completely independent film language that defies categorisation. She has received numerous film awards for her work - such as the prize for innovative cinema at the Diagonale 2006 for her autobiographical film Eine Million Kredit ist normal, sagt mein Großvater (2006) or the Austrian Short Film Award at Vienna Independent Shorts for Flaschenpost (2012).

20:00 hrs | PROGRAMME 2

Are you paralysed (A 1988, 18 min)

A participatory film with disabled people in Vienna who demand their active participation in all areas of society.

A million credits is normal, says my grandfather (2006, 22 min)

Gabriele Mathes' multi-award-winning, essayistic Super8mm found footage work tells the story of how her father's struggle to keep the business founded by his grandfather afloat has affected her family.

Feeling: Dobermann (2015, 16 min)

The psychogram of a family. A subtly constructed intimate play in which the boundaries between staging and truth are blurred.

3 SACHEN KAUFEN- How I tried to save the little shop in our community building by galvanising my neighbours and failed (2023, 15 min)

The filmmaker wants to save the small grocery shop in her neighbourhood and starts a petition to do so. A committed and humorous commentary on the subject of political engagement.

Audience discussion with Gabriele Mathes after the film programmes.

Film still from Eine Million Kredit ist normal, sagt mein Großvater (2006)