Human Nature

Passiage Briare
Hotel Roccalba
Gregor Alexis
Gregor Alexis
The Discovery
Burning Palace
Burning Palace

All life is here: Joy, desire, suffering and sacrifice as told by Jacobs, Mattuschka, Trainor and others.

Mark Webber

Passiage Briare

A meeting of friends in a Paris backstreet, and an unexpected revelation.

Director

Friedl vom Gröller

Country

Austria

Running time

3min

Year

2009

Hotel Roccalba

In a subtle choreography, the occupants of a small Alpine hotel pass a lazy afternoon. Not much happens, but all may not be as it appears.

Director

Josef Dabernig

Country

Austria

Running time

10min

Year

2008

Gregor Alexis

The filmmaker's schizophrenic brother recounts personal experiences, slipping between first and third person. The locations chosen for this portrait - a desolate apartment and a wasteland littered with abandoned machinery - are indicative of the condition of someone potentially as vulnerable as the insects that collect on his windowsill.

Director

Jana Debus

Country

Germany

Running time

21min

Year

2009

The Discovery

Tom's dextrous parlour game attracts unwanted attention. A stolen moment, frozen in time, now re-animated for all to see.

Director

Ken Jacobs

Country

USA

Running time

4min

Year

2008

The Presentation Theme

As primitive Magic Marker drawings illustrate the myths and rituals of the ancient Moche civilisation, a disparaging narrator describes the tormented trials of a hapless creature amongst goblets of blood, fanged men and a sacrificial priestess.

Director

Jim Trainor

Country

USA

Running time

14min

Year

2008

Burning Palace

This new collaboration between Mattuschka and Vienna's Liquid Loft takes us behind the velvet curtains of the Burning Palace, whose peculiar inhabitants have an itch they just can't scratch.

Director

Mara Mattuschka, Chris Haring

Country

Austria

Running time

32min

Year

2009