Workshops / Presentations
Forum Stadtpark
Wednesday, 18th March / 2.00 pm
Medienwerkstatt Wien: Presents the VIDEO EDITION AUSTRIA –
release 02
2009 sees the 02 release of VIDEO EDITION AUSTRIA with a total length of 693 min on 4
DVDs. The edition is made up of 72 works by 79 artists and was curated by Eva Brunner-Szabo, Gerda Lampalzer-Oppermann and gangart (Simonetta Ferfoglia and Heinrich Pichler).
It presents works from the years 2002-2008 divided into eight thematic strands.
Thursday, 19th March / 2.00 pm
Workshop tschuschen: power with Jakob M. Erwa
Following the screening of the new ORF production tschuschen:power (10.30 am UCI
Annenhof 7) the Graz director Jakob M. Erwa participates in a moderated workshop
discussion in Forum Stadtpark. The discussion gives a very personal insight into day-to-day
production, which usually remains hidden in cinema.
Saturday, 21st of March / 11.00 am
Workshop Mara Mattuschka
This year's tribute is dedicated to the filmmaker Mara Mattuschka. In a workshop Mattuschka gives an insight into the themes and formal approaches that determine her artistic works. Her love of filmmaking is the starting point, it cannot be categorised and it is an exchange with other art forms.
Co-Production Meeting for Documentary Film, Germany-Austria-Switzerland
Focus: Distribution
in cooperation with dok.at and CIS Creative Industries Styria
Date: 18th / 19th March
As part of Diagonale 2009, the Trilateral Co-production Meeting for German Language Documentary Film takes place in Graz on the 18th and 19th March. The trilateral industry
meeting of three neighbouring countries, Germany, Austria and Switzerland is the successor to two previous successful meetings, taking place in April 2007 in Nyon/Lake Geneva and in October 2007 in Leipzig.
Alongside presentations and panel discussions involving professionals and the various industries, both days provide case studies, one-to-one meetings and opportunities for networking. The co-production meeting in Graz also has the core purpose of promoting cross-border collaboration of production companies, distribution firms, film institutes and subsidising
bodies and to exploit the potential of the shared language area. Specifically in relation to documentary films, the trend towards co-production is impossible to ignore and closely bound
up with the increasing popularity of documentaries.
The two-day co-production meeting in Graz, as part of Diagonale 2009, will concentrate primarily on the cross-border distribution of documentary film.
The industry meeting in Graz is also a collaboration between three countries. The co-production meeting was designed and organised by dok.at (Austrian Documentary Film Syndicate) and the two renowned documentary film festivals DOK Leipzig and Visions du
Réel, Nyon.