Kurzfilmprogramm: Stolpern und Staunen

Vienne en tramway // Pathé Frères. FR, 1906, 35mm, bw, 4 min

Erdbergerkino / Austria Kinematograf Theater // Austria-Hungary, 1912, 35mm, bw, 8 min

The production of cinema charcoal in an Austrian factory // Karl Köfinger. AT, 1927, DCP (from 35mm), viragized, 11 min

Le chemineau rinckeur // Jean Durand. FR, 1911, 35mm, viragized, 4 min

Chaussure trop étroite // Pathé Frères. FR, 1907, 35mm, video, 3 min

Une bonne histoire // Pathé Frères. FR, 1903, 35mm, bw, 1 min

Prater // Friedrich Kuplent. AT, 1929, 35mm, b/w and hand-colored, 13 min

The City // Friedrich Kuplent. AT, 1929, DCP (from 9,5mm), b/w, 4 min

... and other films

An invitation to take a cinematic walk, setting off without a destination to explore the city. Once the ring road circuit has been broken, hooks are thrown in order to sound out the scope of the urban space and perhaps lose the ground beneath one's feet in the process. In a factory for carbon arc lamps, the dark side of early cinema is reflected, the dullness and gloom in the faces and bodies of the workers who bring the light into the projectors. The choice of shoes shows that there is an escape. They connect people to the ground of facts, and the inappropriate footwear brings about the collapse of the existing order. In the end, the Viennese cinema magician Friedrich Kuplent's view of his city in two turbulent and expressive films forms a kind of destination - the fate of every walk. (Janneke van Dalen/Florian Haag)

At the piano: Elaine Loebenstein

Photo: Austrian Film Museum