endowed with<\/p>\n
\u20ac 6,000 \u2014 donated by the Cultural Department of the City of Graz<\/strong><\/p>\n and a voucher over and a voucher over The prize money will be awarded to the director of the film, the voucher to the film’s production company. All Austrian experimental, animated and innovative short films as well as music videos presented in the Diagonale ’26 competition program will be selected for the Innovative Cinema Award.<\/p>\n | BEST INNOVATIVE, EXPERIMENTAL or ANIMATION FILM |<\/strong><\/p>\n Georg Petermichl<\/strong> \nJury Statement: Like a triangular family constellation, Amature Enlightenment<\/em> shifts between radical self-exposure and \u2014 back in the family home \u2014 a Thomas Bernhard-like abyss. Just as Petermichl\u2019s privacy both hurts and soothes, his cinematic undertaking becomes a moving-image manifesto of a strange ambivalence, articulated with plain and deliberate simplicity.<\/p>\n
\n\u20ac 2,000 for dramaturgical advice \u2014 donated by Golden Girls Filmproduktion<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n\u20ac 2,000 for post-production services at post.haus, including color grading \u2014 donated by post.haus & colourist Susi Dollnig, AAC<\/strong><\/p>\n
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\nAmature Enlightenment<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nAsk the parents instead of the AI.
\nThe camera shows the artist Georg Petermichl alternating between walks in the woods with his father and with his mother. Curious like a child, the son pesters his parents with questions about God and the world \u2014 at once banal and essential. Their answers come promptly, full of empathy and solid middle-class virtue.<\/p>\n