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Oy Vienna,

Austria in the eyes of Austrian filmmakers

curated by: Ritesinstitute and Tal Adler

PROGRAM

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For the Centennial celebrations of the city of Tel Aviv-Yafo, the city of Vienna has created a special cultural program. As part of this program, a special Austrian film festival has been created by the Viennese artist group ‘ritesinstitute (Karin Schneider & Friedemann Derschmidt), and the Israeli artist Tal Adler. The films reflect the way Austria is seen by prominent Austrian film makers. Although these film makers work in different genres, aesthetics and ethics, they all seem to look at Austrian society and question its identity: its past, present, abyss and contradictions.

P.S:

In Vienna, 1902, with its anti-Semitic Mayor Dr. Karl Lueger, a Jewish Journalist wrote a utopian novel about his vision of a Jewish state. This novel was published in Hebrew as “Tel Aviv”. Herzl died some years before the founding of the City of Tel Aviv and before Vienna became one of the main origins of the Holocaust. Vienna and Tel Aviv are entangled by Utopia and disaster.

Curators:

Tal Adler, Karin Schneider, Friedemann Derschmidt

Manager:

Anna Szoeke

An event initiated by the City of Vienna

( for Haifa and Jerusalem: an event initiated by the city of Vienna and supported by the Austrian Foreign Ministry and the Austrian Cultural Forum Tel Aviv )

Production:

Tal Adler

Friedemann Derschmidt

Karin Schneider

Production assistance:

Anna Szoeke

Acknowledgments to:

Christian Pronay- City of Vienna

Arad Benkö –  Austrian Cultural Forum Tel Aviv

Guido Bruck – Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs

Frédéric-Gérard Kaczek – Vienna Jewish Film Festival

Monika Kaczek – Vienna Jewish Film Festival

Ernst Kieninger – Filmarchiv Austria

Mamuta – The Daniela Passal Center for Art and Media in Ein Karem

Thanks to:

Jasmin Avissar

Valery Bolotin

Emil Brix

Shimshon Crystal

Mule Driver (Harel Schreiber)

Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

Sergio Edelsztein

Sylvia Fassl-Vogler

Ari Joskowicz

Guy Lichtenstein

Denis Mashkievich

Kati Morawek

Sylvia Nesher

Barbara Pichler

Johannes Rosenberger

Sala Manca Group

Elisabeth Samsonow

Pini Schatz

Dietmar Schwärzler

Clara Trischler

Ami Vinter

Yoav Weiss

Nikolaus Wildner

Gil Yaron

Masha Zusman