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Documentary
Films as Director/Writer:
1984
The Strange House (Das seltsame Haus)
(co-director Karl Prossliner)
90 min., 35mm, b/w / Naturns, South Tyrol
On the "slow dying" in a South Tyrolean old people’s
home for farm-workers.
TV: RAI - Italy
Festivals: Berlin 1984 - Panorama, Berlin International Film
Festival
1988
T4 Hartheim 1, Dying and Living in the Castle
(Sterben und Leben im Schloß)
(co-directors A. Gruber, J. Neuhauser)
90 min., 16mm, color / Hartheim, Upper Austria
On the former NS-death camp, Hartheim Castle, Upper Austria, and
its contemporary inhabitants.
TV: ORF - Austria 3sat - Germany, Austria, Switzerland
1990
Postal Address: 2640 Schlöglmuehl (Postadresse:
2640 Schlöglmuehl)
90 min., 16mm, color / Schlöglmuehl, Lower Austria
On the effects of unemployment, looking at Schlöglmuehl’s,
Lower Austria, workers’ housing estate, eight years after the
village’s main employer, a paper mill, closed down.
TV: 3sat - Germany, Austria, Switzerland, ORF - Austria
Festivals: Vienna 1990 - Competition, International Documentary
Film Festival / Leipzig 1990 -
Competition, Int. Documentary Film Festival / Duisburg 1990 - Documentary
Film Week /
Marseille 1991- Investigation Competition, Biennale Européenne du
Documentaire /
Award: Golden Cadre 1990 (to Peter Freiß for Best Austrian Documentary
Cinematography)
1990
Burn Out. Medicine at its Borders (Medizin
an den Grenzen) (TV)
52 min., Betacam SP / St. Anna Children’s Hospital, Vienna
Scientific documentation on the work of doctors and nurses at a
Viennese children’s cancer ward, who often accompany children
until to their death.
TV: ORF - Austria 3sat - Germany, Austria, Switzerland /
Hessian Broadcast - Germany
1992
Guilt and Remembrance (Schuld und Gedaechtnis)
90 min., Betacam SP / Klagenfurt, Graz, Rechnitz
Four former high-ranking Austrian National Socialists who have already
for many years been living as respected members of Austrian Society,
talking about their engagement for Hitler, their complicity
participation in the Nazi-System and their unbreakable identification
with National Socialism.
TV: ORF - Austria
Festivals: Vienna 1992 - Viennale, Vienna International Film
Festival / Duisburg 1992 - Documentary Week /
Saarbruecken 1992 - Max Ophuels Film Festival / European Film Award
1992- Documentary Section /
Minnesota 1993- Rivertown International Filmfestival / New York
1993 - Human Rights Watch Film Festival
1992
The Tunnel (Der Tunnel) (script:
E. Humer, Oskar Knasmueller)
58 min., Betacam SP / Loibl-Pass, Belgrad, Klagenfurt
Contemporary history documentation. Between 1941 and 1945 prisoners
of the Loiblpaß-concentration-camp (an extension of Mauthausen)
drove a tunnel through the Karawankenmountains
between Austria and the former Yugoslavia. This tunnel connects
two persons to this day. The one fought on the side of the partisans,
the other was SS-doctor in many death-camps.
TV: ORF - Austria
1992
Running Wild
Semi-documentary on Vienna’s youth-gangs. Young "fringe
groups" and "outsiders" in search for orientation
and values.
TV: ORF - Austria
Festivals: Vienna 1992 - Viennale, Vienna International Film
Festival / Duisburg 1992 -
Documentary Week (opening film) / Saarbruecken 1992 - Max Ophuels
Film Festival
1993
The Risk-Society (Die Risikogesellschaft)
(TV)
53 min., Betacam SP, Stereo / Vienna, Munich, Berlin, Zurich.
Scientific documentary. In 1991, 108 major catastrophes occurred,
with 156.916 casualties and almost 11 billion dollars insurance
less. Almost two thirds of all damages were not of natural origin,
but directly
caused by humans. Risk-experts talk about the dangers of modern
society.
TV: ORF - Austria
1993
The Bands (script: E. Humer, Manfred
Bartunek)
90 min., Betacam SP transfered to 35mm / Vienna
Concert film about Vienna’s underground bands. From "Hardcore"
to "Death-Metal". The Bands has a simple structure: The
city - the song - the concert. The music: fast/slow, loud and soft.
Music and city-sounds interact. Music from the bands’ viewpoint.
Utmost closeness to intensity, concentration and perspiration. No
distances - the stage as arena - the artistic act as the focal point.
TV: ORF - 1996
Festivals: Vienna 1993 - Viennale, Vienna International Film
Festival / Salzburg 1993 - Diagonale,
All-Austrian Film Festival / Berlin 1994 - International Forum of
New Cinema, Berlin
International Film Festival / Sao Paolo 1994
1994
Journey to Brody (Reise nach Brody)
(TV)
43 min. Betacam SP / Brody (Ukraine)
Searching the traces of the writer Joseph Roth in his native town
Brody (Ukraine) on the occasion of
his hundredth birthday. The film is a journey into "Eastern-European
reality" of 1992, and tries to follow, in tone and atmosphere,
Roth’s 1924 travel story "Journey to Galizia". At
the same time, text and film work against an idea of Galizia, which
is broadly disseminated in Western Europe even today.
TV: ORF - Austria 3sat - Germany, Austria, Switzerland
1994
Obedience and Disobedience (Gehorsam
und Verweigerung) (TV)
43 min. Betacam SP, Stereo / Munich, Freiburg/Br., Lausanne, Utrecht,
New York, Baltimore, Yale
Scientific documentary on destructive obedience. The industrialized
mass murder in the Third Reich, atrocities in other wars and cruelties
which seemingly "normal" citizens commit against other
human beings: The film follows the findings of the American social
psychologist Stanley Milgram to the point where they lead to murder,
to the extinction of peoples, to the dark side of human existence.
TV: ORF - Austria
Festivals: Salzburg 1994 - Diagonale, All-Austrian Film Festival
/ Leipzig 1994
1995
Emigration, N.Y. - The Story of an Expulsion
(Die Geschichte einer Vertreibung)
180 min., Betacam SP / New York
Between March of 1938 and November 1941, the National Socialists
employed discriminatory decrees, laws and open terror to drive 130.000,
mostly Jewish citizens into exile. Approximately 30,000 of them
fled to the United States. New York was the preferred center. Egon
Humer visited twelve of these former Austrians of Jewish origin
in New York. The talks he had with them form the basis of EMIGRATION,
N.Y. Seven women and five men talk about their childhood in Austria,
living under constant existential danger after the ‘Anschluß’,
the loss of property, the struggle to emigrate, the strains of the
mostly odyssey-like journey, the arrival in a foreign country where
not only the language was alien to them; the poverty and self-doubt
of a refugee’s existence, survival, the knowledge that relatives
back in Europe were being persecuted and murdered. They speak about
their search for a new identity, their memories, fears and hopes
which they experienced during later visits to their "homeland".
TV: ORF (Kunst-Stuecke) - Austria
Festivals: Vienna, October1995 - Viennale / Salzburg, December
1995 - Diagonale, All-Austrian Film Festival /
Berlin, February 1996 - International Forum of New Cinema, Berlin
Intern. Film Festival /
Prague, June 1996 - International Film Festival "Golden Golem"
/ Jerusalem, July 1996 - Jerusalem Film Festival /
New York, October 1996 - New York International Film Festival /
New York, October 1996 - "New America,
New Americans" / Denver, October 1996 - Denver International
Film Festival / Melbourne, Sydney, Perth,
November 1996 - Festival of Jewish Cinema / Duisburg, November 1996
- Documentary Film Week /
Odivelas, November 1996 - Encontres Internacionais de Cinema Documental
Amascultura
Awards:
1979
"Prix du Cinema de Recherché", Rencontre Internationale
Henri Langlois, to FLICKA
1989
"Star of the Year" AZ, Munich, Section TV documentaries,
for T4 HARTHEIM 1;
"Arunda Award Austria" to T4 HARTHEIM 1
1991
"Award of the German Medical Journalists" to BURN OUT
1992
"Vienna Film Award" to GUILT AND REMEMBRANCE and RUNNING
WILD
1993
Honor Award of the Republic of Austria for Film Art 1992, Documentary
Section
1995
Audience Award, Diagonale, All-Austrian Film Festival, to EMIGRATION,
N.Y.
1996
EMIGRATION, N.Y. Film of the Month, August 1996, epd Film
1996
Honorary Mention, PRIX EUROPE, to EMIGRATION, N.Y.
1996
EMIGRATION, N.Y. Documentary of the Year, epd Film
1996
Award of the German Film Critics to EMIGRATION, N.Y.
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"Zigeuner" Mutter | Leon
Askin | Matura | Intifada
