<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">we are happy to annouce a number of international highlights involving sixpackfilm-titles:</span><div class=""><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 36px;" class="">1</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">festival</span><br class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">Toronto International Film Festival<br class=""></b></font><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">7 - 17 september 2017</i></span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Once again TIFF assured the </span><span class=""><font size="4" class="">World Premiere</font></span><span class="" style="font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">of the newest film by Friedl vom Gröller, </span><span class=""><font size="4" class="">Ticino</font></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">, for their famous </span><font class="" size="4"><span class="">Wavenlength section</span></font><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">. </span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Originally becoming known as a photographer, Friedl vom Gröller produces sensitive but nevertheless insisting analogue black/white films using her 16mm Bolex, mainly portraying relatives and friends or people she got to know during her travels to France, Italy or Senegal.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">Ticino</b></font><br class=""><font size="4" class="">Friedl vom Gröller</font><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">AT 2017, 16mm, bw, silent, 3 min</span><br class=""><a href="http://www.sixpackfilm.com/de/catalogue/show/2420" class="">sixpackfilm-catalogue</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="6A114C3C-6FD6-4733-9615-72FCB41A2190" class="" src="cid:7806C687-D9CE-49D6-9E4A-F0F653B2DBA8@local"></div><div class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">A silent, black and white film portrait of two children set against the eponymous Swiss river, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><i class="">Ticino</i></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> takes its cue from Franz West's famous "Adaptives" sculptures.</span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">"The multifaceted nature of each individual object triggers an abundance of associations which seldom can be reached by arbitrary arrangements. <i class="">(Friedl vom Gröller)</i>“</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">part of </span><br class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">Wavelengths 2: Fluid Frontiers</b></font><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">showtimes soon here </span><a href="http://www.tiff.net/tiff/wavelengths-2-fluid-frontiers/" class="">festival’s site</a><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">:</span><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">----<br class=""><font size="7" class="">2</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">retrospective No 1</span></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">Ruth Beckermann - Films on Tour</b></font></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">@ London / Close-Up</b></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">3 - 24 september 2017</i></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="C281B643-85B6-43E9-A6B2-EC6083A03C06" class="" src="cid:E5C93150-51FF-4B5E-B6F7-1C74FCCA9D6D@local"></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="41E1EB19-02BA-4813-A054-DB0FDE43D042" class="" src="cid:B5E89569-B8A9-433A-A1FF-026CC5DBC259@local"><img apple-inline="yes" id="4979D935-E5AB-425F-AA7A-A690C7B3A75E" class="" src="cid:00E5D2CB-FA29-42E4-BDE0-A23E463285BE@local"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">London’s </span><font size="4" class="">Close-Up Film Centre </font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">will host the first complete retrospective of </span><font size="4" class="">Ruth Beckermann i</font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">n the UK.</span></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">London therefore is the start of a worldwide tour - organized by sixpackfilm - of this well known Austrian documentary filmmaker.</span></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Born in Vienna in 1952, Beckermann has been creating essay films and
documentaries for 40 years and is well known internationally as one of
Austria’s most courageous and spirited filmmakers. This programme
explores the work of a director equally suspicious of closed narrative
forms and linear views of history and memory.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Several films of the retrospective will be shown in the presence of the director with extended talks after the screenings.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/film_programmes/2017/close-up-on-ruth-beckermann/" class="">Close-Up schedule</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://vimeo.com/222659269" class="">Trailer: Beckermann Films on Tour</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">----<br class=""><font size="7" class="">3</font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">festival No 2</span></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">MARIENBAD FILM FESTIVAL</b></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">29 august - 2 september 2017</i></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="EFFF3897-635E-44C3-8DF3-B8823EA923BD" class="" src="cid:037F7603-723C-4279-92F3-9ED3B6AD5539@local"><img apple-inline="yes" id="97819431-7347-4156-9BBC-8D1A1B841CDD" class="" src="cid:EC5C8AEB-3B1A-41DD-8C6E-9E5DB54CC9DB@local"></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="6D99358B-EB84-42F8-82AD-88A5176EA5F4" class="" src="cid:2FB36F1D-60FA-4067-AEA5-6F6BE1F1C37D@local"><img apple-inline="yes" id="5E585AA5-747F-4DF6-969C-1B63B359B57A" class="" src="cid:5BA13158-047C-40D2-A993-E184542110CE@local"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Right in its first edition the enthusiastic </span><font class="" size="4">Marienbad Film Festival </font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">- opening on august 29th - will give a </span><font size="4" class=""><font class="">focus</font><span class=""> on contemporary </span><font class="">experimental cinema from Austria</font><span class="">.</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">In two selected programs one can enjoy films by </span><font class="" size="4">Peter Tscherkassky, Siegfried Fruhauf, Billy Roisz & Dieter Kovacic, Rainer Kohlberger, Claudia Larcher, Björn Kämmerer</font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> and many more.</span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">the detailed program can be found on the </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/marienbadfilmfestival/" class="">festivals’s FB-site</a><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">.</span><br class=""><br class="">----<br class=""><font size="7" class="">4</font></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">retrospective No 2</span></div><div class=""><font size="5" class=""><b class="">The Films of Ferry Radax @ Anthology Film Archive / NY</b></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class="">1 - 7 september 2017</i></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="7DAF964D-DAB1-45C3-9EEF-A96A3AB977D8" class="" src="cid:FD419EAA-DBF2-4D3C-B158-B9E9BAF95862@local"></div><div class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="B0D68EC7-42DD-407C-966E-5E51E94BF717" class="" src="cid:BE610593-D72A-4793-B3ED-A9982345D2F5@local"></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span class=""><font size="4" class="">Ferry Radax</font></span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> belongs to the very first generation of Austrian AvantGarde Cinema, being collabroator and DOP of Peter Kubelka’s <i class="">MOSAIK IM VERTRAUEN</i> and creating a highlight of early 60s experimental cinema </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">with </span><font size="4" class=""><i class="">SONNE HALT! (SUN STOP!)</i><span class=""> </span></font></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">One of the seven Anthology programs dedicated to Ferry Radax presents the extraordinary artist´s portrait </span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><span class=""><font size="4" class=""><i class="">THOMAS BERNHARD - THREE DAYS</i></font></span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"> which has also been published on DVD at </span><span class=""><font size="4" class="">INDEX-DVD</font></span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">.</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">detailled Anthology program </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/269712136849054" class="">here</a><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">Thomas Bernhard - Three Days</b> </span><a href="http://www.index-dvd.at/en/program/035/index.html" class="">@ INDEX-DVD</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">----</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">all retrospectives are generously supported by the local </span><font class="" size="4">Austrian Cultural Forums</font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> - Many thanks !</span></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><a href="http://www.sixpackfilm.com/" class="">www.sixpackfilm.com</a></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sixpackfilm" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span><img apple-inline="yes" id="7AA9B2CB-FD49-4306-985A-7ABE4FD777A6" class="" src="cid:1DB78BC0-8EA9-4C98-9541-128AC597234C@local"></a></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>