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Could the heart of it be non-existent as the philosopher claims, or is it concealed within a cabbage head?
This poetic, contemplative film sets out to examine this question in the words of people met in Novi Sad, Serbia, who have their own, sometimes funny, sometimes tragic, idea of where the heart of it might lie.
Delicately balancing the stories of local people with powerful imagery that both belies and confirms what is said, the film is a portrait of a place and its people that goes beyond the local scene and explores answers that are as complex as human nature.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
“Novi Sad, Serbia. The portrait of an urban society, the Balkans, 21st Century. The people in the center – the people at the periphery. Post-war spirit, but only because we know what happened in Ex-Yugoslavia. The Heart of It? The work which has to be done, day after day. The fact that you have to stoop down to collect a potato, every sack of cabbages has to be tied by hand. Because it is the daily work of the hands which transcends the reality of the present and shows life in itself in its hypnotic stream between the past and the future.”
CREDITS
Producer, Director, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Writer: Goran Mimica
Music: Paolo Marzocchi
Electronic sounds: Paolo Marzocchi, Stefano Sasso
Cinematography: Michal Kosakowski, Evelyn Eberhardt
Edited: Michal Kosakowski
Sound: Evelyn Eberhardt
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STORYAn imagefilm about the new European Master’s Degree Programme for Social Economy and Social Work, the so-called SOWOSEC, offered in 9 European Cities located in Austria, Germany, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Switzerland and France.
Social and economic changes in the social and health sectors are leading to new demands being placed on organisations in the social field. This change offers excellent career opportunities in various social employment areas for those with social work and economics qualifications.
This film portrays this important step towards the first European Degree Programme for social work in which graduates are awarded a “Joint Degree” from several European Universities.
The students’ enthusiasm and the beauty of the European Cities, East and West, occur as a kaleidoscope of traditions and modernity.
CREDITS
Director, Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Massimo Valentini, Giuseppe Conte
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski, Claudia Engl
Sound, Light: Claudia Engl
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FH Campus Vienna
Musica Pesante Productions
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STORYWhile modern and contemporary art have long been accepted as belonging to varied “environments” including public space, contemporary music is still attached to its self-created “ghetto” - the concert hall. Any risk of bringing contemporary music to the streets is up to the musicians as well as to the audience.
This risk has been taken by the Munich Chamber Orchestra and its artistic director Alexander Liebreich with the Streetmusic Project: On October 12th and 13th 2007, the Chamber Orchestra performed at different locations around the city of Munich, Germany, playing works by Erhan Sanri, Gideon Klein, Alfred Schnitke, Luciano Berio, John Adams and Tom Johnson.
The emotions in the faces of both the musicians and the passers-by reflect the music and show an active participation in music, often absent in the cultural mainstream. Contemporary music as remembrance, as a witness to the 20th century, to the holocaust, to modernity.
The film grants access for a wide audience to contemporary music through the precise dramaturgy created by the compositions. The movie illustrates the relevance of cultural production in relation to society and politics.
CREDITS
Director, Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Concept: Michal Kosakowski, Uli Aigner
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
MUNICH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
Artistic Director: Alexander Liebreich
Chamber Orchestra: Daniel Giglberger, Max Peter Meis, Gesa Harms, Bernhard Jestl, Viktor Konjaev, Mario Korunic, Romuald Kozik, Mary Mader, Eri Nakagawa-Hawthorne, Kelvin Hawthorne, Stefan Berg, Maria Hristova, Nancy Sullivan, Peter Bachmann, Benedikt Jira, Michael Weiss, Onur Özkaya
MUSIC
Erhan Sanri (*1957)
Vier Vertonungen visueller Gedichte und eine visuelle Phantasie
für Violine und Kontrabass (1986/1991)
Tom Johnson (*1939)
Formulas für Streichquartett (1994)
Alfred Schnittke (1934-1998)
Streichtrio (1985)
John Adams (*1947)
Shaker Loops – 1. Satz - Fassung für Streichorchester
(1978, revised 1982)
Tom Johnson (*1939)
Eight Patterns For Eight Instruments (1979)
Luciano Berio (1925-2003)
Duetti per due violini (1979-1983)
Bernhard Jestl (*1960)
Das Spiel der Wolken und des Regens für Violine und Viola (1996)
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Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
Streichtrio (1944)
Gideon Klein (1919-1945)
Partita für Streichorchester (1944, arr. 1990)
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STORYThrough this film the viewer experiences a visual adventure of the construction site of a new building for the FH Campus University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, designed by the acclaimed Viennese architects Delugan Meissl. We follow all the stage of the construction from the beginning to the finished building.
“The approach for the design of this new campus is thought from the current defining elements of the landscape. Situated between a city highway and an idyllic green area with a view towards the open landscape, the future campus is the object which relates these tension fields. Its presents on the street side is a quiescent horizontal orientated volume, which has a continuous change in perception related to the way of approaching and due to its formal presence of a mirrored S. This is creating two different orientated outer courts and is furthermore important for the different fazing in the building process. This whole volume is standing on a base overlapping the two courts and containing the main large-scale functions. This relation between base and superposed volume is also strengthened in the spatial relation from the internal functions. Orientation, sightlines and general configuration are hereby key design elements.” Delugan Meissl Associated Architects
CREDITS
Director, Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Graham Stark
Cinematographer: Heli Leitner, Michal Kosakowski
Editor: Michal Kosakowski
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STORYThe film shows the work of the Rezac company situated in Vienna. Their medium is high-power projectors combined with high-definition, photographic, large-sized slides and films. Their screen is all that light illuminates - walls, buildings, rock faces, mountains, water, ice and snow. Sceneries, spaces, whole streets and urban exterior areas are changed and enchanted by these high-power projections.
CREDITS
Producer, Director, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Massimo Valentini
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STORYBetween 1996 and 2006 Michal Kosakowski produced 49 short movies on the subject of killing. 49 killings, dreamt up by inhabitants of the metropolis of morbidity – Vienna. In 1996, Kosakowski began to inquire into fantasies of killing – at first among his relatives and friends, then widening the circle to include artists, musicians and, eventually, actors.
Within a decade, Kosakowski made 49 short movies, an essential element of which is the fact that these killing fantasies were put into practice with the complicity of the respondents themselves and depicted in the 49 videos. The collaborations between Kosakowski and his fictitious killers and victims in scripting, acting and staging the films could not have been closer or more intense. Michal Kosakowski himself was in charge of directing, camera, editing and special effects for all 49 films.
The fantasies of violence, all of which seem to feed on the explicit violence omnipresent in film and television, are stunning. Not a single one of the 160 performers has a criminal record or was ever involved in any real acts of violence. And yet poisoning, torture, suicide, execution, ritual murder, violence by and against women, men, and children, murders motivated by sexual, political, and mental aberration come face to face with the recipients’ emotions, naked and uncensored.
What Michal Kosakowski grants us is the rare occasion to experience a genuine taboo of our times and our Western society – death. A death that, for the time being, seems to present itself exclusively in the contemporary guise of the incessant violence staged by the media.
CREDITS
Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, Director: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Capillary, Paolo Marzocchi, Christoph Savli, Ray Sweeten
Sound Design: Fabian Lorenz / MG-Sound Vienna
Production Manager: Heli Leitner
Scenario and Actors:
Hakki Adanir, Uli Aigner, Diane Amiel, Johann Auer, Regina Augendopler, Clemens Bauer, Lisa Bauer, Dietmar Beinhauer, Dorothée Berghaus, Clemens Bertsch, Michael Blank, Dietmar Böckmann, Max Boehme, Barbara Braun, David Bruckner, Philipp Buchner, Michèle Cavaliere, Ramy Copty, Therese Davies, Dao De Almeida, Joseph Denize, Stephan Doleschal, Thomas Dücke, Michael Dürr, Evelyn Eberhardt, Markus Enders, Tamás Eperjessy, Helmut Farkas, Julia Fencl, Sergio Figueroa, Nikolaus Firmkranz, Bernadette Fleischanderl, Christian Fössl, Ivan Gambini, Gabriela Hegedüs, Michael Jesch, Mi Jiszda, Michael Kamler, Ulrike Kapl, Franka Kaßner, Vinzenz Kemeter, Sava Kiprov, Bernhard Klob, Christina Kolin, Elzbieta Kosakowska, Michal Kosakowski, Rafal Kosakowski, Miranda Kragulj, Karoline Kretz, Elke Krystufek, Martin Kuen, Heli Leitner, Michael Lung, Pino Lux, Harald Maderbacher, Claudia Martini, Paolo Marzocchi, Genny Masterman, Aleksandar Mimica, Goran Mimica, Nicholas Mortimore, Dorit Oitzinger, Gebhard Ottacher, Gerhard Paul, Josef Paul, Lucy Paul, Mimi Paul, Denise Pitayataratorn, Delio Pramhas, Ratko Radivojevic, Ahmed Radwan, Svenja Rossa, Andy Kartik Sarup, Christoph Savli, Christian Scharf, Florian Schirg, Jürgen Schlattl, Stephan Schmollgruber, Markus Sepperer, Reya Silao, Manuel Smalis, Martina Spitzer, Ries Straver, Martin Sturm, Juan A. Vetere Arellano, Christian Vossoughi, Lucas Vossoughi, Neli Wagner, Ursula Weilenman, Christian A. Weisz, Vitus Wieser, John Wright, Andreas Wurscher, Samer Younes, Michal Zyszkowski
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CREDITSDirector, Writer, Editor, Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Paolo Marzocchi
Title Design: Rafal Kosakowski
SYNOPSIS
“It’s just like the movies!” was usually the first reaction of those watching the events of 9/11 in New York unfolding on their TV screens, no doubt recalling the endless number of catastrophes that Hollywood has proposed over the years. Now confronted with the reality of one such scenario – of unprecedented destructive and symbolic resonance - a feeling of déjà vu arises while looking at these images.
This paradoxical déjà vu presents a great challenge to our realism. If documentary images are graphic testimony of real events, then footage of 9/11 is evidence of the realization of the existing fiction.
Just Like the Movies is an attempt to re-construct the events of 9/11 by highlighting the parallels between the fictive worlds and the images of the real events.
AWARDS
2007
Best Original Music / 4th Sedicicorto Int. Film Festival Forli - Italy
Best Short Movie / 12th Milano Film Festival - Italy
2006
Best Experimental Film / 14th Int. Short Film Festival Santiago - Chile
Special Mention of the Jury / Nowords Film Festival - Bolzano - Italy
FESTIVALS
2007
16e Festival du film de Vendome - France
Festivals Tous Courts - Aix-en-Provence - France
12th Siena Int. Short Film Festival - Italy
FIKE 2007 - Évora Int. Short Film Festival - Portugal
Short Film Festival Opere Nuove No Words - Bolzano - Italy
Amsterdam Film Experience 2007 - Netherlands
KunstFilmBiennale Köln Bonn - Germany
Flanders 34th Int. Film Festival Ghent – Belgium
Underdox 02 – Dokument und Experiment – München – Germany
Mecal 2007 - X Festival Int. de Cortometrajes de Barcelona - Spain
Viewmaster 07 – Courtisane Compilation – Ghent - Belgium
36th International Film Festival Rotterdam - Netherlands
9. Int. Festival für Stummfilm und Musik - Berlin - Germany
Tampere Film Festival - Tampere - Finland
Videoformes 2007 - Clermont-Ferrand - France
Next Film Festival - Bucharest - Romania
Alphaville Hoch 10 - Gartenbau Film Festival - Wien - Austria
IndieLisboa 2007 - 4th Int. Independent Film Festival - Lisboa - Portugal
EMAF - 20. European Media Art Festival - Osnabrück - Germany
2006
SFF.006 - Sopot Film Festival - Sopot - Poland
Where is the Love? - Int. Short Film Festival - Bucharest - Romania
Rencontres cinématographiques de la Seine-Saint-Denis - France
6th KaraFilm Festival - Karachi - Pakistan
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STORYFrom a very early age, Kokocinski has lived an adventurous and overall extraordinary life, a man of a thousand lands and memories. Born in Italy, in Porto Recanati in 1948, from a Russian mother and a Polish father, having spent his childhood first in Brazil, among the Guaraní tribe, and later in Argentina, in Buenos Aires, where in the 1960s he joined a circus as a horse acrobat, he has since followed his cosmopolitan nature with the free spirit of a true artist. He finally settled down in the town of Tuscania, in the Etruscan North Lazio, where he has set up his atelier in a disused medieval church.
CREDITS
Director, Writer: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Francis Kuipers
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
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Concept, Director: Michal Kosakowski, Evelyn Eberhardt
Music: Graham Stark
Cinematographer: Michal Kosakowski
Additional Photography: Evelyn Eberhardt, Alexander Munninger
Time Lapse Camera: Jürgen Schmidt
Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Production: Michal Kosakowski Productions
SYNOPSIS
Mit der Adaptierung einer Halle aus der Jahrhundertwende durch BEHF Architekten wird aus alten Ziegelmauern Büro, Produktionsstätte, Lager und Eventzentrum von BALLOONART VIENNA.
Wir verfolgen den Prozess vom Industriedelikt zur Gegenwartsarchitektur und schaffen filmisch eine Symbiose aus neuem Raum und Firmenphilosophie. “Die Kunst sich abzuheben” wird zum Leitmotiv den Raum, seine Geschichte, den Umbau, seine neue Funktionalität erfahrbar zu machen.
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Director: Michal Kosakowski
Concept: Rudolf Zündel
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Heinz
Producer: Freude Werbeagentur GmbH
SYNOPSIS
Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work. The Foundation’s mission reflects the life-changing impact that a Make-A-Wish experience has on children, families, referral sources, donors, sponsors and entire communities.
The Make-A-Wish Foundation was founded in 1980 after a little boy named Chris Greicius realized his heartfelt wish to become a police officer. Since its humble beginnings, the organization has blossomed into a worldwide phenomenon, reaching more than 144,000 children around the world.
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CREDITS
Director, Writer: Uli Aigner
Cinematographer, Editor, Sound: Michal Kosakowski
Title Design: Gerhard Paul
Producer: Uli Aigner, Michal Kosakowski
Cast: Lisa Erb, Tobias Yves Zintel, Matze Görig, Peggy Meinfelder, Franka Kaßner, Lena Bröcker, Franziska Schwarz, Anna Witt, Anna McCarthy, Stefanie Trojan, Florian Simon Winter, Daniela Leiter
SYNOPSIS
ghostAkademie has been created together with 13 students and graduates from the Munich Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der bildenden Künste).
The artists’ works have been condensed into possible teaching contents. The following chairs (Lehrkanzeln) have been established: horror vacui, film, product, politics, matter, everyday life, experiment, superficiality, body, practical (relative) theory, faith.
The ghostAkademie teaching program, consisting of video lectures, is an open cycle of artists’ portraits following a half-hourly schedule and presented as a large-scale projection.
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CREDITS
Director: Michal Kosakowski
Writer: Joseph Denize, Goran Mimica
Music: Paolo Marzocchi
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Assistant Director: Evelyn Eberhardt
Dialogue Consultant: Therese Davies
Sound: Heli Leitner
Sound Design: Fabian Lorenz
Title Design: Rafal Kosakowski
Flame Artist: Michael Lung
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Cast: Goran Mimica, Joseph Denize
SYNOPSIS
When his routine is broken by the disappearance of the coffee, Bill puts it down to his early morning confusion, but when the same thing happens to a pair of shoes he needs for a funeral, a feeling of uneasiness creeps in. His confusion grows along with the number of objects that vanish. Sam’s visit reveals similar concerns. When Sam disappears Bill rushes out of his house, funeral flowers in hand, to find, turning back, that his front door is no longer there.
FESTIVALS
2005
Signes de Nuit - Festival Int. De Courts-Métrages - Paris - France
9th Int. Indep. Film Festival “Jutro Filmu 2005″- Warszawa - Poland
2004
45th Int. Film Festival - Brno - Czech Republic
40a Mostra Int. Del Nuovo Cinema - Pesaro - Italy
Int. Short Film Festival Leuven - Leuven - Belgium
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CREDITS
Producer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Director: Josh Josimovic
Cinematographer: Matthias Meissl
Music: Francis Kuipers
SYNOPSIS
Think about. Think open-minded. Think through. Conceiving. Planning. Making.
The BEHF company’s philosophy is the understanding of architecture as a way of communication. BEHF reflects on all fields and themes related to architecture – even on the unusual ones. BEHF develops and realises concepts within a larger context setting the basis for a visible „corporate culture”.
Therefore BEHF cooperates with companies from related and complementary fields. BEHF strives towards an overall realisation corresponding to the concept.
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CREDITS
Producer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Director: Josh Josimovic
Cinematographer: Matthias Meissl
Music: Francis Kuipers
SYNOPSIS
At the beginning there was a glass. More precisely, two water glasses, one Bordeaux red, the other smoky grey. When Fabio Giacobello entrusted the architects Armin Ebner and Markus Spiegelfeldt with the design of fabios, he held the two glasses in front of their noses and said: “That is how I envisage my restaurant.” Of course, there were additional instructions as well. Sophisticated technical equipment, for instance, because perfect service requires extraordinary detailed planning between the kitchen, the restaurant and the bar. “I wanted a beautiful restaurant, not just a “fashionable’ place”, says Fabio Giacobello.
“Food, service and, above all, quality are at the forefront. The architecture is there to highlight the culinary art and not vice versa.” However, from an optical point of view, the two architects were instructed to build fabios around the water glasses. The eye catcher is a vast glass front, which in good weather is folded away and so adds an extra dimension of size and space. The tables and chairs along the glass front create the flair of a Mediterranean restaurant. Here is the place to sit for those who like to watch and want to be seen.
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CREDITS
Director, Writer: Michal Kosakowski, Evelyn Eberhardt
Cinematographer: Michal Kosakowski, Evelyn Eberhardt
Music: Graham Stark
Producer: Michal Kosakowski, Evelyn Eberhardt
SYNOPSIS
„Movimento” is a documentation of the transshipment and trading ports of Szczecin and Swinoujscie, Poland.
The focus on the audio-visual representation of the work gives a new and unusual view of the ports’ daily business.
Mechanical movements become a picturesque sequence of actions, in which the emphasis lies not on the specific material or goods transported, but on the atmosphere created through image and music.
FESTIVALS
2005
9th Int. Indep. Film Festival “Jutro Filmu 2005″- Warszawa - Poland
2004
Docupolis - 4th International Documentary Festival Barcelona - Spain
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CREDITS
Director, Writer: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Apocalyptica, A. Kisser, Igor G. Cavalera
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
SYNOPSIS
Children operate and marvel at the arsenal of the Austrian Army during National Holiday in Vienna. By juxtaposing scenes from computer-games the children become figures of a simulated war-game. The ballet-like style amplifies the illusion of war we learn to consume as given facts from an early age on, and at the same time shows the folly of it.
AWARDS
2003
8th Milano Film Festival - Milano - Italy / Best Soundtrack Award
FESTIVAL
2004
17. Stuttgarter Filmwinter - Stuttgart - Germany
FIKE 2004 - Evora Int. Short Film Festival - Evora - Portugal
Diyarbakir Short Film Days - Diyarbakir - Turkey
2003
ZKM/Int. Medienkunstpreis 2004 - Karlsruhe - Germany / Nomination
11th Int. Art Film Festival - Trencianske Teplice - Slovakia
Le Festival du Court Metrage de Nice - France
20. Kasseler Dokumentarfilm- und Videofest - Kassel - Germany
15. Ankara Int. Film Festival - Ankara - Turkey
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CREDITS
Director, Writer: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Mosa Sisic
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Sound: Evelyn Eberhardt, Heli Leitner
Title Design: Johann Auer
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Cast: Mosa Sisic, Jasmina Sisic, Josef Brachner, Snezana Sisic, Miki Sisic
SYNOPSIS
„Gipsy Express“ is an emotional journey through the musical world of Mosa Sisic, violinist with heart and soul. Mosa Sisic is Romany, stems from a traditional dynasty of violinists from former Yugoslavia, and has been living in Vienna for 37 years now.Life in Vienna has inspired Mosa Sisic to exceed the bounds of the traditional Romany music and to connect the Middle Eastern sounds of the Balkans with elements from Austria and the whole world. The consequent, very special style leads us on a way of pure zest for life but also deep melancholy. In its energy loaded and direct way Mosa Sisic tells about his love of music and of Vienna, his spiritual musical tie with God and the boundless dedication to his violin.
AWARDS
2003
Special Mention of the Jury / Shorts on Screen - Wien - Austria
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CREDITS
Concept, Director: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Samaya
Producer: Martin Schicht / Local Communication Design
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Director: Michal Kosakowski
Writer: Uli Aigner
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Flame Artist: Michael Lung
Sound Design: Michal Kosakowski
Title Design: Johann Auer
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Cast: Josef Paul
SYNOPSIS
Josef is walking through town in his big rubber wellies.
His eyes are scanning the surroundings, his ears the sound of it.
He is exploring his very own wonderland.
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CREDITS
Director: Michal Kosakowski
Writer: Alexander Viscio
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Assistant Director: Heli Leitner
Flame Artist: Michael Lung
Sound: Michael Berz, Oliver Brosenbauer
Producer: ORF Kunststücke
Cast: Alexander Viscio, Michaela Math, Heli Leitner, Evelyn Eberhardt, Bettina Bruder
SYNOPSIS
VAL is a documentary by Michal Kosakowski of the art work of Alexander Viscio produced by ORF.
VAL - Vehicles for Another Landscape depicts a series of transformations of images and objects used to get things done while “living my life in Wien”. From a carnival ride to a corporate logo, a sobriety test to an umbrella, an enlarged baby-walker to an even larger inflatable “Schwimmflügel” and a raven to a basketball.
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ORF Kunststücke - 13 December 2001
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CREDITS
Director, Writer: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Cast: Alexander Viscio
SYNOPSIS
A film documentary of the Live -Site installation/performance by Alexander Viscio.
“The Johnnie Walker’s Sobriety Test was a large Kinder-walker for adults to help them manoeuvre through a new and strange city without getting in danger of offended anyone. Being in a foreign country and without speaking the language and being unfamiliar with the politics and laws, can have you walking on eggshells. This sculpture is made of equipment usually found in storage or hardware stores. I build these objects to move around in space; using Garage Technologies to make big painting machines.”
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CREDITS
Director, Writer: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Producer: Michal Kosakowski
Cast: Alexander Viscio
SYNOPSIS
A film by Michal Kosakowski of the Live-Site Installation/performance, Easy Killers and other Software by Alexander Viscio.
“The Software is an oversized inflatable I placed myself inside of while members of the viewing public took turns rolling me around, creating visual space through movement.”
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CREDITS
Director, Writer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer: Michal Kosakowski, Sergio Bosatra
Music, Sound Design: Ray Sweeten
Assistant Director: Sergio Bosatra, Eleonora Milesi
Executive Producer: Oliviero Toscani, Marco Müller
Producer: Fabrica Spa
Title Design: Rafal Kosakowski, Tom Hobbs
SYNOPSIS
The slogan „Holy War“ returns to cosmopolitan cities and brings with it, an entirely postmodern twist.
The film opens with the sawing of a huge fir tree which escalates into a chainsaw massacre of thundering machinery. While witnessing the consumption mania of pre-Christmas preparations, we are ironically reminded of the mobilisation of forces at war.
The adrenalin rush the ‘Christmas spirit’ initiates is charged by the illuminated advertisements ornamenting the shop windows.
The closing hours of Christmas Eve sets an atmosphere of threatening silence before the storm. The deserted streets that are only inhabited by the residue of consumerism, fade into the epiphanic finale of the New Year’s celebration on the 31st of December, at Vienna’s Stephansplatz.
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CREDITS
Director, Writer: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Producer: Oliviero Toscani / Fabrica Spa
SYNOPSIS
A profound insight into the fragile soul of a town.
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CREDITS
Director, Writer: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Michael Galasso
Cinematographer: Michal Kosakowski
Executive Producer: Oliviero Toscani
Producer: Fabrica Spa
SYNOPSIS
“Stupid people see beauty only in beautiful things”, in order to emphasise how, today, beauty conforms almost exclusively to the aesthetic model put forward by advertising and television. “That’s why it’s necessary to look for something deeper than superficial beauty. I’ve chosen these children, these young people, these families, because they are beautiful in the purest sense of the word”.
Oliviero Toscani
AWARDS
1998
Il Targa del Carlino - Backstage Film Festival Bologna - Italy
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CREDITS
Concept, Director: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Music: Fabrica Musica
Producer: Oliviero Toscani / Fabrica Spa
SYNOPSIS
Young musicians come together to give new forms of expression to music through the artistic use of multimedia resources and the exploration of alternative languages in sound. The various cultures that meet through different sounds give life to a constant investigation of the world of music.
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CREDITS
Concept, Director: Michal Kosakowski
Sound Design, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Producer: Oliviero Toscani / Fabrica Spa
SYNOPSIS
Fireworks are detonating in the black sky of a New Year’s Eve night. Is there a reason to celebrate?
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CREDITS
Concept, Director: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Sound Design, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Producer: Oliviero Toscani / Fabrica Spa
SYNOPSIS
Short sequences of architectural structures which remind us of a space shuttle. The countdown has already started. Just a few seconds before take-off. Does what we seem to recognize represent reality?
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Concept, Director: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Sound Design, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
Producer: Oliviero Toscani / Fabrica Spa
SYNOPSIS
A variety of products are being thrown into a shopping trolley which moves at high speed through the aisles of a gigantic supermarket. We recognize the familiar situation but the goods themselves seem to be far from our profane daily life.
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Concept, Director: Michal Kosakowski
Cinematographer, Editor: Michal Kosakowski
SYNOPSIS
The Kai Tak airport will be remembered nostalgically by many pilots, but its passing will be bemoaned by few. The landing on Runway 13 is justifiably famous in the aviation world, with its spectacular approach towards the mountain, and the last-minute turn to line up on the runway. The airport sits amidst the bustling, busy city of Hong Kong and creates an awestriking atmosphere to newcomers to Hong Kong. The famous Runway 13 is now part of history.
