It's not just their joint live performances and music video collaborations that make it logical to pair Michaela Grill and Billy Roisz for a double tribute. Outstanding representatives of the first "digital generation" of Austrian avant-garde cinema, Grill and Roisz have shaped the common interests of this scene since 1999/2000. At the same time, they both developed highly unique bodies of work.[...]

Within the internationally acclaimed works of animation artist David OReilly, the irresolvable contradictions of the present appear in the form of images and figures – only to be resolved at an astonishing rate: a utopia of (digital) cinematography. OReilly's shorts (and ‘very-shorts’) are in search not just of a balance between narrative and abstraction, but that perfect state of limbo between deep seriousness and (nasty) humor.[...]

The book Haneke on Haneke holds a special place among the many publications on the director which have appeared in recent years. One of the merits of this volume is the attention paid to the director’s early work – his films for Austrian and German television. In conversation with Michael Haneke, Alexander Horwath will explore the connections between his TV work of the 1970s and his major motion pictures of recent years.[...]