The Mozart Minute

Directed by Ruth Beckermann, Wolfgang Glück, Gustav Deutsch, Michael Glawogger, Barbara Gräftner, Houchang Allahyari, Jessica Hausner, Ulrich Seidl, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, Sabine Derflinger, Michaela Schwentner, Lisl Ponger, Paulus Manker, Mara Mattuschka, Michael Kreihsl, Hanna Schimek, David Wagner, Tim Sharp, Thomas Renoldner, Anja Salomonowitz, Goran Rebić, Michael Palm, Bady Minck, Ferry Radax, Songül Boyraz, Peter Tscherkassky, Edgar Honetschläger and Peter Patzak

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range of different backgrounds, ranging from animated, experimental and short film to documentaries and feature films. The result is a multi-facetted sampler of diverse formal and contextual positions with regard to Mozart’s person and his influence on today’s society, art and culture. The contributions run the gamut from experimental-conceptual statements through socio-critical and documentary observations to pithy short feature films.