Josef Dabernig

Lacrimosa (2024)

Funeral ceremonies in the attic of a spooky villa. The elderly aunt gathers her great-grandnieces around a child's coffin for a funeral prayer. Folded hands, furtive glances, a rosary and a body chair are the ingredients of an eccentric children's game in ...

Pastry Friday (2023)

All the Stops (2020)

Heavy Metal Detox (2019)

The heavy metal detox becomes an aesthetic paraphrase on the removal of dental fillings in the latest film by Austrian artist and filmmaker Josef Dabernig. ...

Stabat Mater (2016)

Hotel guests look restrained, sedated in the diffuse light of the service provider's shimmering cage. A network of joists, pilasters and fluting exposes the proverbial off-season chill in the seating arrangements. Smart-phones and tablets mask a total lack ...

Zlate Piesky Rocket Launch (2015)

Short film about a rocket launch and Eastern European rap. ...

Hotel Roccalba (2008)

Sunday afternoon in Hotel Roccalba: Is this an old-age-home, a recreational facility or simply a hotel? The life of a 12-member group in the dilapidated facility leaves the question open. ...

Aquarena (2007)

The camera sweeps over concrete containers and rusty pipes, drinking fountains and water tanks. It shows water as an element which is lovingly cared for, has been made useful and, in the final analysis, which bonds. ...

Automatic (2002)

Three men, three cars and three obsessions: automatic is a rhythmical and pulsating tribute to the garage and the engine, but most of all to the car as a fetish. The hot Latin beats fill the garage with music. ...

Wisla (1997)

Two actors in the roles of a soccer team's coach and assistant coach watch an "important" game. In many ways, "Wisla" is a highly successful excercise in the art of properly placed marks of elision. ...

Walking Film 6 (1994)

An enlightened response to Austria's breathless cinema, a cinematic ricochet with trance flavour enhancers. Cinema which evidently appears to come from a completely different world precisely because its manner of dealing with this world is so uncompromisin ...

Automatic (2002)

Three men, three cars and three obsessions: automatic is a rhythmical and pulsating tribute to the garage and the engine, but most of all to the car as a fetish. The hot Latin beats fill the garage with music. ...

Wisla (1997)

Two actors in the roles of a soccer team's coach and assistant coach watch an "important" game. In many ways, "Wisla" is a highly successful excercise in the art of properly placed marks of elision. ...

Walking Film 6 (1994)

An enlightened response to Austria's breathless cinema, a cinematic ricochet with trance flavour enhancers. Cinema which evidently appears to come from a completely different world precisely because its manner of dealing with this world is so uncompromisin ...