<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; 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; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Literally emmerging straight from the underground the latest film by visual artist Norbert Pfaffenbichler captures the cinema screens in Vienna, Sitges and Munich in the upcoming days:</span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 64px;" class="">2551.01</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">AT 2021, 65 min</font></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">One-hundred years lie between Chaplin’s first feature-length film and Pfaffenbichler’s very loose interpretation of it. </span><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">The Kid</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">, filmed in 1920, is a story from the realm of the "lumpenproletariat", a tragi-comic moral tale of an abandoned child and police brutality. </span><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">2551.01</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> is all of that, too—and is, after all, at a distance of 100 years and all kinds of breaks in cinematic history and countless wars from Chaplin’s bittersweet patchwork comedy. The director calls his toxic genre blend a “dystopian slapstick film.”</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">In </span><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">2551.01</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">, a lot more than one mask of madness can be seen. The false clown, sod, and nightmare visages, which the amateur ensemble wears, define this low-budget grotesque, which is set in the passageways of a sewer system, bunkers, and dark cellars, without windows, without daylight, without escape. Chaplin’s tramp turns into a man in a monkey mask, who takes in an abandoned child and hesitantly looks for a place for his charge in the violent and zombie world he inhabits. <br class="">A series of genuinely obscene images makes the pulse quicken: nauseating meals are served at a decadent candlelight dinner in the wreckage, disturbing rituals are carried out in a nursery school of horrors, and on the hero’s path through the underground hell, we witness Abu-Ghraib-like torture. Along with the complex textures of silent films, Pfaffenbichler also uses elements of splatter and exploitation films and sitcoms—and an extremely eclectic soundtrack of music. In this way, this episodic drama leads us to the peripheries of punk and shock comedy, to territories that are practically non-existent in Austrian cinema. For that reason, with all luck, the Orgy of the Damned, which is announced at the end as Episode 2 of this wicked tale, will soon become a reality. <i class="">(Stefan Grissemann)</i></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><i class=""><br class=""></i></span></div><div class=""><a href="https://vimeo.com/557628417" class=""><i style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Trailer</i></a></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="9F41773F-C053-4F41-AC37-42164FD1F00C" class="" src="cid:4E916C33-F0A7-408A-BEE5-F1A8A6DC13B2"></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Watch out at</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" size="5" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Vienna SLASH FILM FESTIVAL</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> [sept. 23 – oct 3]</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">sep, 26th </span><a href="https://slashfilmfestival.com/en/films-2021/2551-01/" class="">—>></a></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" size="5" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Sitges FESTIVAL INTERNACIONAL DE CINEMA FANTÀSTIC</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> [oct 7–17]</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">International Premiere on oct, 7th </span><a href="https://sitgesfilmfestival.com/eng/film?id=10006771" class="">—>></a></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" size="5" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">Munich UNDERDOX FILMFESTIVAL</span></font><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> [oct. 7–13]</span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">German Premiere on oct, 9th </span><a href="https://underdox-festival.de/en/programm/festival-2021/2512/" class="">—>></a></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="39CF25D7-6284-4B65-B4B7-96A279988D8A" class="" src="cid:BC502943-969E-4371-97CD-A982B9F5F388"></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 36px;" class="">2551.01</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">AT 2021, 65 min</span></font></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.sixpackfilm.com/en/catalogue/2608/" class="">—>></a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">director, script, editing, production:</span></font> Norbert Pfaffenbichler</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">camera:</span></font> Martin Putz</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">sound / music:</span></font> Johann Sebastian Bach, Simon Spitzer, Wolfgang Frisch</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">set design: </span></font>Sara Lisa Bals</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">make up:</span></font> Laethizia Werth, Jutta Harather, Mimi Klein</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">assistant director: </span></font>Simon Spitzer</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">executive producer: </span></font>Bianca Jasmina Rauch</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">actors: </span></font>Stefan Erber, David Ionescu</div><div class=""><font face="Helvetica-Light" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class="">supported by:</span></font> BKA Film, Stadt Wien, Land Oberösterreich</div><div class="">distribution & sales: sixpack<span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">film</b></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="0B81C1B5-0BBC-4CA2-9270-B7B26A49A8EE" class="" src="cid:7DAFF34F-34AA-4E77-AEE1-FD3E1932F4AA"></span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class="">
<font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">upcoming:</b></span></font></div><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></font></div><div class=""><span class=""><span class=""><span class="" style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;"><b class="">The Austrian Filmmuseum</b></span><span class=""><b style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </b><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class="">in Vienna</span><b style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </b></span></span></span><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">will dedicate a large retrospective to </span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><b class="">Norbert Pfaffenbichler’s</b></span><span class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""> film-oevre</span><span style="font-style: normal; font-size: 14px;" class=""> </span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;"><span class="" style="font-style: normal;">in </span><span class="" style="font-weight: bold;"><b class="">november 2021</b></span></span><span class="" style="font-size: 14px;">, including all his movies from short abstract miniatures to his found footage hymns to Boris Karloff or Lon Chaney.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">more soon </span><a href="https://www.filmmuseum.at/" class="">—>></a></div></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Norbert Pfaffenbichler on VoD </span><a href="https://vimeo.com/491219014" style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><b class="">—>> Index Edition</b></a></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">—</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size: 14px;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font size="4" class="">sixpack<span style="font-style: normal;" class=""><b class="">film</b></span></font></div></div></body></html>