Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst, Wien

"Studio Schönbrunn" is an ironic play with quotations. Paula Wessely in the Nazi-Wien-Film-production "Heimkehr", Leni Riefenstahl's biography, as well as Nestroy, Mozart, Marx, Frank Sinatra, Jandl. The text is adapted, de-familiarized and de-subjectivized. Consequently, the leading actor shoots the film's author.

Witty, literary and intellectual Kammerspiel film which presents the day after the end of the world as an allegory.

In the beginning is the sea. Night over the harbour. Then a plane takes off. Dana, the friend, leaves the airport building. Dana, the milliner, leaves the millinery. Dana, the traveller, sits in the train.

Somewhere in America, some time in the thirties, a gangster is fighting for his life, an Italian is fighting for his money, and an Asian is fighting for recognition. Raw fish and seaweed, and Lizzy in the midst of it all...

A sketch: Observation of everyday life of people and situations in Vienna. "Visual art is an excellent way of observation in our culture. The everyday situations are seen briefly, continously but rarely as perceived and consciously experienced." (Michael Kreihsl)

A man reads a book. Ordinary enough, except that he is sentenced to death and scheduled to be shot in ten minutes. Obviously, he will not get to the end of the story. Based on an unfinished short story by Arthur Schnitzler.

A travelling salesman attempts to cross a vast, dark forest in his old medium-range car, an Opel "Berlina". Suddenly, however, something happens... And then there is nothing.

A film about news, life and death. Before the media became so prevalent, we were concerned about our immediate neighborhood. At the end of the day, news was the subject of our conversations, but now it's possible to converse with someone at the other end of the globe. We do it all the time. It's simple. The world has become one big neighborhood. Now Headline News has replaced the back fence. That's the news service of the eigthies. It's a new idea and a new approach.

Two women in two different countries leading different lives. One lives in Austria, one in Yugoslavia, yet their lives become strangely entangled for a moment in time. What if you wake up in somebody else's head and the city around you isn't the one you used to know?

O snail Climb Mount Fuji But slowly, slowly! ― Kobayashi Issa

The Hartmut-Wolf-System is a relationship between two people which adheres to strict internal and external rules. The Hartmut-Wolf-System leads to self-destruction. A face à la viennoise.

On 27th September 1992, 11 yards in front of a Viennese supermarket and 12 minutes before closing time, Helga, 30, is confronted with a fleeting moment of pleasure. She shrugs off the incident. The customer-friendly opening hours are more reliable.

"Masculinity" is the subject of this film. Harald, the protagonist, fails in his blind attempt to prove his masculinity at Maria's expense. The Stone Age is over. Is it really?

A milieu drama which boldly and thoroughly examines the social and psychological causes of a severely disturbed father-daughter relationship.

America 1988. After more than 40 years the elderly widow Braine is unexpectedly confronted with her past. She returns to the village of her youth. - Austria 1988. The Border.

A cheerless petrol station buffet. A woman creates for herself her own dream world, far away. A stranger only wants some petrol.

Blasius is plagued by the memory of a car accident. He in turn plagues his aunt, until she finally tramples on his favourite toy car. Their tiny Viennese residence becomes jsut too small.

"Beautiful Homes" in the province. Martin loves Agnes. Agnes loves Martin, platonically. Daily routine after lunch: SEX. They have no secrets, but stringent regulations. Everything super-duper? If only the ARCHITECTS OF LOVE knew more about statics.

All are waiting everywhere

After a car accident, Sebastian contracts an uncanny sleeping sickness. Every day he sleeps a minute longer than the preceding day. Sebastian attempts to find out on his own what sleep is.