Film

GIVE NATURE A BREAK

Southern Austria, June 2022 GoBugsGo had acquired another piece of land – 5,2 hectars/ 13 acres. Before we turned it into a Non-Human Zone we tore down a run down…

FERONIA

90′ feature film in development Twelve-year-old Feronia longs for nothing more than to transform herself: into a bee, into a butterfly, into a grasshopper – anything but human. She penetrates…

MIDA’S ANTS Screening at IMAGE FORUM Tokyo

2024年7月1日19:00に私の最新の映画がイメージフォーラム東京で上映されます。日本語字幕付きです。ぜひお越しください。 TOKYO IMAGE FORUM – AUSTRIAN FILM DAYS. My latest film MIDAS’ ANTS was screened July 1st among the films of fellow distinguished Austrian filmmakers.

LE FORMICHE DI MIDA in VENICE

Screening of the movie at Palazzo Diedo / Berggruen Foundation, Venice May 26th the Film was screened at the coolest venue Venice currently has to offer https://www.berggruenarts.org/en/

gobugsgo.org

GOBUGSGO – SET NATURE FREE
is a non profit organisation that strives to keep insects, birds and wild animals in this world.

AUN – the beginning and the end of all things

Tokyo / Vienna 2011 102 min. This project has its own elaborate website. Please visit www.aun-film.com for in-depth information and full credits. Film available at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/auneh ‘AUN – the beginning…

320 FILOSOFIANA

Sicily 2015 Based on the magnificent mosaics in the Villa Romana del Casale in Sicily (320. A.D) ‘320 Filosofiana’ tells the story of the decline of the humanities. It deals with forced relocation…

LOS FELIZ

feature film, ROME / LOS ANGELES / VIENNA 2016, 105 min, DCP 24fps / 1:1,85 / Stereo / 105’ / color / english, german, chinese, italian subtitles available This project has…

CIVILIZATION SUCKS

Tarquinia 2018, 48 seconds Is a short short that expresses the artist’s frustration with civilization = it’s brute destructive force. camera: Yohan Leitner, thanks to Yukika Kudoactor/director: Edgar Honetschläger

L+R

Tokyo / Vienna 2000, (film essay) 80 min Once upon a time there was a fisherman who rowed his boat up a river. As he came upon a beautiful peach…

KAZUE

Tarquinia 2012 Kazue is a lawyer from Tokyo who defends individuals from the Japanese Red Army as well as members of AUM Shinrikyo, who planted gas bombs in the Tokyo…

BEIJING HOLIDAY

BEIJING / TAIPEI / VIENNA 2007, short film, installation Film available at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/beijingholiday BEIJING HOLIDAY is a fairy tale. An ironic adaption of William Wyler’s ROMAN HOLIDAY which featured Audrey…

Chickenssuit / ERNI

AICHI / VIENNA 2005 – intervention/performance/short film – in collaboration with Willi Mahringer Forget about Dadaism. Believe in Gagaism! … CHICKENSSUIT® was a slick campaign produced for the World Expo in…

The Scent Of Snow – YUKIKA

New York 2003 The TALE OF GENJI is a novel written by lady MURASAKI SHIKIBU in the early 11th century describing the court life of Heian JAPAN – the most…

FLUCUTHUKH

Tarquinia 2018, experimental short, 12′ FLUCUTHUKH means LOVE in the Etruscan language – some scientist believe it means SODA WATER though… appearances: Stefan Fauland, Karin Klimitsch, Shinpei Takeda, Yumi Watanabe,…

SEQUENCES

New York, 1990, experimental super 8 film, 17 min in collaboration with (in order of appearance)Serge Pinkus (CH), Josef Ramaseder (AT), Paula Hayes (USA), James Goldwasser (USA), Dorothea Braemer (USA),…

OMSCH

Vienna 2013 83 min. Film available at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/omscheh ‘If you drink this juice you’ll make it to a hundred’ says the young man to his old neighbor, who replies: ‘I…

ARCANA

Vienna 2013, 2’45” Teaser for the outstanding contemporary Music Festival ARCANA in the Austrian mountains by the legendary music wizard Peter Oswald – a festival for maniacs! camera/editor/director Edgar Honetschlägerco-editor…

SEHNSUCHT/LONGING/憧れ [あこがれ]

Vienna 2012 Another step toward the feature Film LOS FELIZ 2016 in combining drawn sets and actors and thereby questioning the concept of central perspective/3D. The first step being Enduring…

Tarzan 2011

Vienna 2011 This installation/movie was a further step on the way to the making of the feature film LOS FELIZ – the first road movie ever shot in a studio…

BRASÍLIA Sugar and Ice FILM

Brasília 2008, 6 min. Brasilia was planned to have the shape of a cross and ended up being an airplane.SUGAR and ICE, portraits a religious fanatic who covers Brasilia with…

IL MARE E LA TORTA

Film Essay, Sicily / Vienna 2003, 60 min, The Sea And The Cake I used to think that GOETHE had written the most boring stories about SICILY – till I…

COLORS / MASACCIO

Rome / Florence / Vienna 2001, 33 min COLORS is a trilogy consisting of THE HISTORY OF CHOCOLATE, dealing with the status of drugs throughout the centuries, MASACCIO, portraying the…

Enduring Freedom

Vienna 2001 an art installation and a film is an ironic portrayal of the United States in the aftermath of 9/11. AMERICA is represented by a corpulent actor who tries…

George in Hollywood

Los Angeles / Vienna 2001, 4min, 8mm/35mm GEORGE is the film-maker’s old trustee and moth-eaten cuddly toy. He plays the lead in a small film in an equally moth eaten…

Isola Farnese

Rome 2001 Trailer for the Austrian Film Festival Diagonale shot in Super 8 in the Isola Farnese/Veijo near Rome appearances: Sabrina Montanaro and Cristiana Briscesewritten and directed by Edgar Honetschläger

Randzonen

Vienna, 1999. found footage, music: anthem of upper Austria Trailer for  FESTIVAL DER REGIONEN, UPPER AUSTRIA ‚DAHOAM IS DAHOAM’  entstand für das OÖ Festival der Regionen im Jahr 1999, das…

MILK

Feature Film, TOKYO/ NEW YORK / VIENNA 1997 / 102 min What happens when GREEN TEA meets MILK? Find out as four young urban nomads find themselves in TOKYO –…

HCN MIAU

New York/Vienna 1996 short film/tv spot 2×45 sec HCN MIAU was a commercial commissioned by the Austrian shoe manufacturer HUMANIC for TV.  HCN MIAU is an Anagram that uses all…