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OUR MOVIES
documentation
150 Years of the Graz Alpine Club - Longing for the Original (Austria 2020)
Alpinism is experiencing a real revival in Austria. The longing for the original, for real adventures is greater than ever. Going mountain climbing means discovering your own speed. Getting to know your own limits when climbing a summit. Few of them know, however, that the Alpine Club has been satisfying this longing since 1862. An example of civic engagement that has created an impressive network of hiking trails, huts and lookout points over the years. More information ...
Director: Andrea Eidenhammer (AVbaby)
Editor: André Kratzer (AVbaby)
Camera: Stefan Schmid (AVbaby)
Sound: Gerd Jochum (AVbaby)
documentation
Grandma sends me on a trip
(Romania, Austria 2020)
A search for past cultures, the traveling Roma hadn't been seen in the Innviertel since 1938, said the grandmother in an interview. Stefan Schmid goes on a search to find the tent grandma from grandma’s stories. The film takes you to Romania and is an immersion in a world that one for long passed. More information ...
Director, Camera: Stefan Schmid (AVbaby)
Volume: Stefan Farmer
Editing: Fritz Aigner (AVbaby)
Graphics: Peter Brandstätter (AVbaby)
Color grading: Edgar Bültemeyer (AVbaby)
Documentation
Weben mit dem Stift - Weave with a pen
(Austria 2020)
Good work has a common thread says the Austrian artist Constantin Luser. It lays the foundation for the next project, the next idea. Luser needs time and space for this process; Sara Arnsteiner provides an insight into that spiritual and creative process, which seems to have no restrictions, in which everything sounds and works.
Length: 39 min.
Director, Script, Cut, Camera: Sara Arnsteiner
Sound design: Gerd Jochum (AVbaby)
documentation
Loden meets indigo - fashion encounters in Niger (Niger, Austria 2012)
For the desert people of the Tuareg, clothes are more important than houses.
Three Austrian fashion designers meet four colleagues from the African desert state of Niger. The documentary tells how in Agadez fashion is communicated in the world language. The old Sahara city and its people, clothes, living environment and traditions of the nomad tribes have left their mark on the collections.
Length: 30 min.
Director, Camera: Stefan Schmid (AVbaby)
Script: Fritz Aigner (AVbaby)
Documentation
Around the Weikhard clock
(Austria 2014)
Documentation about the most popular meeting point in Graz. Ever since the watch dealer Weikhard set up a large watch in front of his shop on Graz's main square in 1930, this has been a popular meeting place for all people in Graz. The film team spent 24 hours at this very special place in Graz and talked to the waiting people about time, patience, stress and the waiting itself.
Length: 47 min.
Directors: Boris Miedl, Jürgen Miedl
Camera: Stefan Schmid (AVbaby)
Documentation
Encounters between looms
(Sri Lanka, Austria 2014)
The Graz filmmakers Schmid and Aigner accompanied three Austrian fashion designers to Sri Lanka in their search for high-quality fabrics and inspiration. You are immersed in a world where traditional craftsmanship meets sustainable, young design. The harsh climate of the Alpine region and the jungle on the Indian subcontinent have something to do with each other.
Length: 33 min.
Directors, Script: Stefan Schmid, Fritz Aigner (AVbaby)
Camera: Stefan Schmid (AVbaby)
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Documentation
CHAMELEONS
(Österreich Frühjahr 2020)
A cinema documentary about instrumental and vocal teachers and their diverse work in the area of tension between pedagogy and being an artist, between elementary music education and the highest musical standards. A film about the power of music and freedom in artistic expression. A film that wants to encourage the audience to explore their own inner musicality.
Director: Fritz Aigner (AVbaby)
Cut: André Kratzer (AVbaby)
Camera: Stefan Schmid (AVbaby)
Sound: Gerd Jochum (AVbaby)
Colourgrading: Edgar Bültemeyer (AVbaby)
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Movie
Big Mama
(Italy, Austria 2020)
When Romeo is no longer available after a skiing accident, his mother Lucia from Naples decides to start her first trip abroad to Austria immediately. Romeo is saved by the young man Erich and wakes up in the room of an old mountain farm. The acquaintance with Erich Senior is not promising because the old nationalist is convinced that the "intruder" is a refugee of Islamic faith. When Lucia arrives at the farm, she immediately suspects that it may have been a kidnapping of her son.
Actors: Ciro Esposito (Gamorra, Don Matteo, The final Inquiry), Kristina Böhm (known from TV and theater), Gina Perna (Movie and theater)
Script: Otwin Biernat, Annalisa Ciaramella
Children's fairy tale film
Irenes Baum
(Austria 2020)
The 9-year-old Irene suffers from the custody dispute of her separated parents. When her mom moves to the country with her - an hour's drive from Papa - she also threatens to lose her best friends. Then Irene discovers a special gift - she can conjure up her thoughts. When her parents' argument escalates, Irene runs away from home. She would like to learn to use her magic powers consciously to bring her parents back together. She gets help from a colorful carnival troop, who sets up her tents in the village in summer.
Script: Fritz Aigner (AVbaby)
