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30 Jan – 9 Feb 2025

Edgar Honetschläger

Edgar HONETSCHLÄGER (1963, Austria) is a visual artist and filmmaker based between Tarquinia and Vienna, but has spent time living in Japan, USA, Italy and Brazil. His work ranges from drawings, paintings, photography, installations and films. His debut feature film Milk (1997) was awarded an honorable mention at the Diagonale Grand Prize in 1998. It also screened at IFFR in 1999, and since, his films have appeared multiple times at IFFR including AUN – The Beginning and the End of All Things (2011) and Le formiche di Mida (2023). He also established the EDOKO Institute Film Production in Vienna to produce films and public art projects.

Filmography

Sequences (1992, short), Mary Rosenberg – German Bookseller in New York 1939-1993 (1993), Gadgets (1994, short), 97-(13+1) (1996, short), Milk (1997), L&R (1999), Colors (2000, short), George in Hollywood (2002, short), Enduring Freedom (1992, short), Il mare e la torta (2003), Erni (2005, short), The Audience (2006), Beijing Holiday (2007, short), Sugar and Ice (2009, short), AUN – The Beginning and the End of all Things (2011), Kazue/Longing (2012), Omsch (2013, doc), 320 Filosofiana (2015, short), Los Feliz (2016), Flukutukh (2018, short), Le formiche di Mida (2023)

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Edgar Honetschläger at IFFR

  • Le formiche di Mida

    A cinematic search for the points in history where ideas of nature changed, partly narrated by a donkey.

    • Big Screen Competition
  • L + R

    Who’d have thought that an essay about the lack of understanding between East and West could be so entertaining. A film-maker unpacks his baggage, not

    • main programme features
  • Erni

    A chicken in a suit is chased through the streets of Vienna. A statement.

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
  • Beijing Holiday

    A satirical variation on the Hollywood classic Roman Holiday in which the political history of China and Taiwan is told as a bizarre fairy tale. With

    • Short: As Long As It Takes
  • Colors

    Three-part film essay is an archeology of Euro-centric dogmas, in which cultural/religious ‘outsiders’ reflect on what belongs with their own culture,

    • main programme short
  • Il mare e la torta

    Light and playful essay about Sicily. A guided tour without Goethe (or maybe not?) and a reflection without the Mafia (or?). But certainly with beauti

    • main programme features
  • George in Hollywood

    The film-maker’s cuddly toy ‘does’ Hollywood in a strange and entertaining way.

    • main programme short
  • AUN – The Beginning and the End of All Things

    In the first place, it’s a work of art. So much fantasy, so much wisdom, so many wonderful images and such idiosyncratic music, it’s almos

    • Spectrum
  • Milk

    Original improvised film is a culture sketch in the form of an unusual cross-fertilisation between Japan and the West.

    • main programme