Edgar Honetschläger

When looking for alternative energy sources, the Japanese scientist Sekai tragically dies. Twenty years later the Brazilian mathematician Euclides continues his research. The lack of an essential component won't allow a breakthrough. Only AUN, Sekai's son, seems to hold the key to protect mankind from self-destruction. In the aftermath of the nuclear tragedy in Fukushima the film appears like a prophecy. AUN's dream-like images, complemented by music from Christian Fennesz and Ryuichi Sakamoto, lead into a fantastic and exciting world, full of brightness and darkness of life.

Twenty-eight well-known filmmakers living and working in Austria were invited by WIENER MOZARTJAHR 2006, to produce associative miniatures on Mozart. Requirement: they had to be one-minute artistic short films. The directors come from a whole range of different backgrounds, ranging from animated, experimental and short film to documentaries and feature films. The result is a multi-facetted sampler of diverse formal and contextual positions with regard to Mozart’s person and his influence on today’s society, art and culture. The contributions run the gamut from experimental-conceptual statements through socio-critical and documentary observations to pithy short feature films.

George is the filmmaker’s old, trustee and motheaten cuddly toy. He plays the lead in a small film in an equally motheaten Hollywood, that will make everyone happy, even if it is full of sarcasm.

It is a fairy tale, comedy, and drama that caricatures the global omnipresence of Western imagery and Hollywood pictures with humour and irony, without forgetting to make fun of itself, the illusion film, and the genre road movie.

What happens when green tea meets milk? Find out as four young urban nomads find themselves in Tokyo - a city spinning with pop culture and ancient traditions. Follow a quirky Austrian artist drawn to the offbeat Japanese woman he met at New York's Chelsea Hotel and a mysterious monument he discovers in Tokyo. A privileged young Japanese woman who finds freedom in the role of Elevator Girl, where her many choices are reduced to "up" and "down". A radio announcer from New York who falls in love with a rogue salaryman.

Based on the Carol Reed film 'The Third Man', Edgar Honetschläger's Erni unfolds in Vienna. Two Japanese women and a young boy wander around the city. From time to time the boy sees the figure of a chicken, Erni, appear, each time dressed differently. This short, which is part of a portmanteau film, was screened at the Aichi exhibition in Japan in 2005.

The director chronicles his last trip to Japan with his girl friend (Yukika Kudo), an attempt at Eastern and Western observations.

Phaethon asks to ride the sun chariot for a day. Helios tries to dissuade his son – but in vain. When the night ends, Phaethon mounts his father's precious sun chariot. The four horses race off but soon, control of the chariot is lost. Phaethon leaves the daily route between Heaven and Earth, triggering a catastrophe of universal proportions.

It is not inconceivable that a film about Sicily will have il mare (the sea) in its title, but why should it have la torta (the cake)? Yet this slightly cryptic title leads us straight into the world of Honetschläger. A world that is playful and cheerfully erudite and that places the so-called important and unimportant side-by-side without concern.