The Cinematographic Kiss

In mining, a slag heap refers to an artificially raised hill consisting of the cleared waste that accumulates during the extraction of raw materials. Birch trees now grow where workers from near and far once went underground to labour hard for very little money. Nowadays, this is a place where men m

It is with deceptive simplicity that Peter Tscherkassky embarks on his filmic voyage to regions of desire found in sexualized cinema: A naked couple from a 1960s nudist film climbs aboard a small sailboat, gliding over darkly tinged waters alongside a rocky coastline before stumbling on an isolated

Two faces, magically doubled. A man and a woman desire one another, their eyes meet, they are about to kiss. Suddenly, cars crash into obstacles, smash against walls, penetrate, pile up, demoralize the trembling couple in increasingly rapid rhythms. Frontal is about the nature of cinema: about passi

A meditation on birth, silence and the American cinema, sealed with a kiss. A single gesture into light.

On a hot summer day by a small lake, Mia, 11, asks Hugo, only 15 and yet already blasé, to tell her about his love story with Chaïnes of a few months earlier by the same lake.

SIWAM lives somewhere in Syria. RAWAD lives somewhere else in Syria. Despite the chaos, they decided to communicate by sending each other videos. By discovering the home movies they made for each other, it's actually their encounter and their world that we're discovering.

In a 3 movement narrative, the movie draws the journey through a woman's sexuality, in all its roughness and softnesses. From that little girl inspired by the models painted by Paul Delvaux and Klimt, to her first sensual gestures as a teenager and her experience as a stripper, we gradually see a wo

A short experimental film about the wild harvest and ecstatic consumption of a sacred psychedelic cactus. Shot in Ecuador under the influence of San Pedro.

Kiss is a short (4-minute) digital video that takes 50 iconic embraces from the history of cinema and re-animates them through a non-photorealistic rendering technique developed by the artist. The technique analyzes the footage by looking at details in the source that resemble the lips of the kissin

All couples kissing. Men & women. Women & women. Men & men. And it's all silent again. A short essay about human closeness.

The festival trailer Une catastrophe was realized by director Jean-Luc Godard and will be screened from September 18 in 100 selected Austrian cinemas as well as during the course of the Viennale program from October 17 to 29. Entitled Une catastrophe, the film is a kind of cinematographic poem about

A gorgeous woman enters a jazz bar and goes straight to the counter to order a cocktail. A cat welcomes her. The heat seems to be on since she entered the room. A jazz band is singing. When the chorus arrives, the woman suddenly notices the singer and turns around towards the scene. She starts actin

A contact between two bodies. An intense sharing of information. A chemical cocktail in the brain. The Kiss is an audiovisual work that explores a simple gesture acted out between two lovers. An intense coming together of two bodies in the digital space. The work was created using motion capture, pa

A young woman searches for her perfect dance partner in this one-take swing dance story with a twist.

The Kiss is the story of Paolo, a museum guard who watches over the itinerant sculpture of Rodin, Le Baiser (The Kiss). Through this daily action of having to watch the eternal kiss, Paolo is confronted with his deeper longing, to experience romantic love. The Kis s explores the magical relationship

The tone is lyrical, the voices are real, the bodies are sketchy: A couple talks at the phone and in bed (a casanova and his victim). "You helped me, you made me strong, but you can´t blame me for anything. When somebody loves so blindly, they pay with their life." (Maria Lassnig)

A mischievous teen explores an empty beach house unaware of the video cameras watching his every move.

Binary Love. Algorithm Blues. A convulsive love, impossible dreams, burning and whirring like an overheating hard drive, corrupting your senses. Every adventure starts with a Wifi connection. But where do we go ? Does it matter? Where is our narrative drive? Anything to distract us from our planned

A transparent plastic wall divides a street in two. You can see what is happening on the other side, but you can't cross it. A couple meets there, he on one side of the plastic, she on the other. She smiles, she is happy and draws a misty heart on the plastic. He is serious and bows his head. They t

In the aftermath of never-ending disasters and epidemics, fewer and fewer people are still surviving. They said the apocalypse has come. K walks alone in the long-abandoned gay sauna. Human body contact has become an anecdote of the last century. The decadent and damp smell permeates, and only an ol

A prehistoric fish takes the first step on dry land. A cuddling T-Rex couple is about to become extinct. Meanwhile in Poland, it is 1963, and the Winter of the Century is in full swing. Chimneys cheerfully spit out clouds of black smoke. A young coal loader is madly in love with a beautiful crane op

An experimental reinterpretation of Andy Warhol's 1963 silent short film of the same name, "Kiss" recontextualizes his protest against the Hays Code's time restriction of onscreen kissing as an impassioned indictment of laws that prohibit and punish homosexuality in certain countries. Featuring a ca

From a marriage proposal to a broken condom, Fucking in love is an intimate journey based in New York, in the search of love and desire. A journey in flesh and emotion where submitting oneself to the other ignites an affirmation of the self.

"Betty Ferguson's 'Kisses', an hour-long anthology of film clips presented without titles or voiceover [...]. She compares her film to a patchwork quilt, but it's basically morphological, cataloguing clusters of shots where kisses are delivered to the hand, the neck, rained down on a beloved face, p

Some are at sea, others wait in ports. They dream, desire each other and sometimes come together, when the ship docks. Sailors and prostitutes are Ulysses and Penelope, contemporary versions of a myth. Despite the distance, a former chilean prostitute and an old Greek captain engage into a dialogue

Young stewardess works in a luxury, long – distance train. Its destination is Paris. Travellers are mostly couples on their way to the capital of love. Stewardess becomes the unintentional witness of their quiet intimacy and intensive tenderness. Overwhelmed by her own loneliness and her burni

An ambitious thief wants to steal a precious diamond from a heavily guarded vault. On his way, he unexpectedly meets competition - a femme fatale who appeared for the same purpose. The rivalry for the diamond slowly turns into a mutual fascination that takes the couple into a world between dream and

Two girls going through a break-up try to avoid bitter drama and embrace the sweetness of why they liked each other in the first place. Through stop-motion animation their hearts burst and candy tears fill the screen to perform a sad crazy dance.

A Korean American girl named Juno is haunted by her father's disappearance. Upon his return, Juno must decide whether to keep her drifting father grounded or to let him go.

Although by no means a conventional narrative, and certainly a film inspired by the avant-garde's simultaneous engagement with formal abstraction and material energy, L'Arrivée also engages with the history and form of narrative cinema. Certainly its role in that relation is a critical one, r

Liebesfilm is an ironic attack on one of the most tenacious Hollywood clichés – the film kiss. A brief shot of mouths approaching one another is shown 522 times, without the kiss ever actually taking place; instead the tempo of the encounter is steadily increased. The excessive repetiti

n this short movie a woman and a man alternatively kisses "the other", that could be the other in the video or the viewer. It's the only way that we have to see the lips of the other when we kiss. For the script, words of love, flash of hate.

The red silk line that connects two people who are destined to be together, appears across many Chinese, Japanese and Korean mythologies. The delicate silk line symbolises the fragility of love at times. On the other hand, such a thin line represents the passion in love that is powerful and irresist