{"id":81778,"date":"2017-02-07T16:27:30","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T15:27:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/eroeffnungsfilm17-untitled\/"},"modified":"2022-10-18T13:35:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T11:35:27","slug":"eroeffnungsfilm17-untitled","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.diagonale.at\/en\/eroeffnungsfilm17-untitled\/","title":{"rendered":"UNTITLED opens the Diagonale\u201917"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The opening:<\/strong>
\nTuesday, March 28, 2017
\n7.30 pm
\nHelmut List Halle<\/p>\n

Austrian premiere
\nUNTITLED<\/em><\/a> \u2013 a film by Michael Glawogger and Monika Willi<\/p>\n

Sponsor:
\nAVL Cultural Foundation<\/p>\n

Co-sponsors:
\nAlmert & Partner and
\nEnergie Steiermark<\/p>\n

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UNTITLED<\/em>, Still: Filmladen\/Lotus-Film<\/p><\/div>\n
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Taking off, discovering, facing the world with open eyes \u2013 the Diagonale\u201917 opens with the documentary travelogue that led Austrian filmmaker Michael Glawogger through the Balkans, Italy, northwestern and western Africa, where the journey ended for him under tragic circumstances. More than two years after Glawogger\u2019s sudden death in April 2014, his long-term artistic partner and editor Monika Willi put together a breathtaking movie from the filmed material and Glawogger\u2019s travelogue texts. \u201cUNTITLED<\/em> is cinema in the best sense of the word; inquisitive, open-ended, and truly interested in the world and its people. In times of omnipresent, ready-made motion pictures, UNTITLED<\/em> is a daring and visually stunning counter draft. An innately political film whose gaze is reflective, doubting, constantly turned toward the world. One that does not shy away from counter gazes, but instead even welcomes them in order to respond.\u201d (Sebastian H\u00f6glinger and Peter Schernhuber)<\/p>\n
The film was made from material that arose during Glawogger\u2019s four months and nineteen days of steady travel. A principle of serendipity is at the base of the attentively observing, courageous, and open film. After all, it is the fluke of a chance observation driven by curiosity that carries through from shooting to editing. The first excerpts from UNTITLED<\/em><\/a> were shown at the Diagonale already two years ago: a poetic travelogue with ties to Styria (Glawogger was born in Graz) that stirs curiosity and invites contemplation \u2013 about the world, Austrian film, and Michael Glawogger.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe film should give rise to a picture of the world that is possible to make only when you\u2019re not pursuing any theme, looking for any evaluation, or following any goal. When the only thing that carries you away is your own curiosity and intuition,\u201d said Michael Glawogger. On the occasion of the Diagonale 2015, Monika Willi reported on a unique, cooperative approach to work: \u201cIt was Michael\u2019s dauntlessness \u2013 or better yet \u2013 lack of fear \u2013 that allowed him (and, thereby, also me) to develop a type of cooperation that was unique for the editing process of a documentary film. Knowing what he had in reserve, he was courageous and curious enough to let me edit the film material in a first go without any instructions, to find out what I saw in it.\u201d<\/p>\n
UNTITLED<\/em><\/a> has been premiered at the Berlinale 2017 in the Panorama section.<\/p>\n
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Michael Glawogger, Photo: Sascha Trimmel<\/p><\/div>\n
Michael Glawogger was born in Graz in 1959. He studied film at the San Francisco Art Institute and at the Filmakademie Wien. He was a cameraman, screenplay writer, and director of international prize-winning films. Glawogger died in April 2014 during the shooting of UNTITLED<\/em> in Monrovia\/Liberia. His novel 69 Hotelzimmer was published posthumously.<\/p>\n
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Monika Willi, Photo: Stefan Ol\u00e1h<\/p><\/div>\n
Monika Willi was born in Innsbruck in 1968. The prize-winning film editor worked and works regularly with Michael Haneke, Barbara Albert, and Florian Flicker. She worked together with Michael Glawogger for many years.<\/p>\n
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