The sixpackfilm association was founded in 1990 to organize a comprehensive found footage film show in the city cinema. After their great success, we started to set up a sales organization for Austrian artistic film of all styles. 30 years later, sixpackfilm is an internationally established world distributor and distributor, which distributes around 40 new films to festivals around the world every year. The conception of events is still an important part of our public relations work for the innovative film.
There is a peculiar correlation between so-called found footage filmmaking, founded on the reuse of pre-existing film footage, and the idea of "preserving" film heritage that drives the work of film museums and film archives. Unlike other forms of filmmaking which sprang to life "on their own" and were then preserved by film archives, found footage as a filmmaking tradition appeared only after film archives had gathered enough material to make artists curious about it.
Dates:
Friday, October 23, 2020 (All day) to Thursday, November 26, 2020 (All day)
The Austrian Film Museum and sixpackfilm present two programs with an array of films by Gunvor Nelson. Considered Sweden's most significant female experimental filmmaker, Nelson began her path on the US's West Coast in the 1960s. Along with pursuing her own artistic work, she taught at the San Francisco Art Institute for more than 20 years before returning to Sweden in 1993.
