17 Sept 2026 | Outside in the cinema: short films from sixpackfilm

Avantgarde Now! and Then! sixpackfilm from Vienna

AT/US 1968-2016, D: Valie Export, Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, Eve Heller, Phil Solomon, Jannis Lenz

Starting from the relocation of the cinema into public space, a programme of short films featuring works from the collection of the Viennese film distributor sixpackfilm explores the boundaries between public and private, visible and concealed. Valie Export’s TAPP- UND TASTKINO ironically and provocatively makes “tangible”what voyeurs seek to touch through watching. In a public performance, Export straps a box – a miniature cinema auditorium, open at the front and back – to her bare breasts. Passers-by are invited to visit the cinema… In ASTOR PLACE by Eve Heller, we look through a shop window mirrored on the outside onto the square of the same name in New York City. Passers-by walk past. Unaware that they are being watched, they look into the camera before moving onsoon. An arrangement of asymmetrical gazes that gains in complexity on the big screen. Ursula Pürrer and Ashley Hans Scheierl’s EIN SCHLAUCHBOOT UND AUSTERN is queer DIY cinema: punk women on the New York subway, home-movie snippets and the sexually surreal. The programme is shown as a loop.

Thu 17 Sept	Milieukino at the Rabet
5 PM	TAPP UND TASTKINO AT 1968, D: VALIE EXPORT , 2’, File EIN SCHLAUCHBOOT UND AUSTERN AT 1985, D: Ashley Hans Scheirl, Ursula Pürrer, 5’, File ASTOR PLACE US 1997, D: Eve Heller, 10’, File CROSSROAD US 2005, D: Phil Solomon, 5’, File SCHWERELOS AT 2016, D: Jannis Lenz, 9’, File Admission: Free donation