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Vladimir Nadein (b. 1993, Moscow) is a curator, artist and film producer based in Taipei, Taiwan. His works were presented at the solo exhibition Deep Play, VT Artsalon and Greater Taipei Biennale. He produced an award-winning film Detours, supported by Hubert Bals Fund, received the Eurimages Lab Project Award at Les Arcs Film Festival and was shown at Venice Critics' Week, Viennale, Thessaloniki IFF, Berlin Critics' Week, FICUNAM, Jeonju IFF, IndieLisboa, Beldocs, FILMADRID, Camden IFF, TFAI, Barbican Centre among others. In 2016, Nadein co-founded the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival and directed it for five editions. He curated special programmes and screenings for the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale, Hamburg Short Film Festival, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Garage Museum, University of California, Los Angeles and other venues. Nadein tutored at the Moscow School of New Cinema and is a member of the filmmaking duo together with Dina Karaman.

Dmitry Frolov (b. 1988, Kaliningrad) is an art and film curator and researcher based in Izmir, Turkey. He holds a BA in Сultural Studies from the Russian State University for the Humanities and an MA in Film Programming and Curating from Birkbeck, University of London. He has curated a variety of screenings, panels, performances and exhibitions dedicated to such artists as Maya Deren, Chris Marker, Tony Conrad, Vladimir Kobrin, Yoko Ono, Michael Snow, Annabel Nicholson, James Benning, Alain Cavalier, Aura Satz, Cao Fei, Ana Vaz, Cyprien Gaillard, etc. His texts have been published in Iskusstvo Kino, Spectate, Colta.ru, Syg.ma and other media. Since 2017, he has been working as a curator at the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF). Currently, he is also working as a film curator at Pushkin House, London.

Just as important as the competitions and, since the 1990s, a central and successful part of Oberhausen’s profile is the Theme, a comprehensive programme on annually changing issues. Here, the Festival reflects the enormous variety of the short form, whether avant-garde, advertising or scientific film, whether expanded cinema or linear installation excerpt, within thematic contexts, creating a forum for cinematic and social discussions that, starting with the short film, extend far beyond film-related issues and engage in an overarching dialogue on image production in the arts, new technologies and sciences.

Topics covered in recent years include: "Solidarity as Disruption" (2021), "Leaving the Cinema – Knokke, Hamburg, Oberhausen (1967–1971)" (2018), "Social media before the Internet" (2017), "El Pueblo - Searching for Contemporary Latin America" (2016),  "The Third Image – 3D Cinema as )Experiment" (2015); "Memories Can't Wait - Film without Film"(2014), "Flatness: Cinema After The Internet" (2013), "Provoking reality: Mavericks, MouveMents, Manifestos" (2012), "Shooting Animals. A Brief History of Animal Film" (2011), "From the Deep: The Great Experiment 1898-1918" (2010), "Unreal Asia" (2009), "Bordercrossers and Troublemakers",  "Whose History" (2008), "Kinomuseum" and "Don't turn around! Children, Childhood, Cinema" (2007), "Solidarity As Disruption – Epilogue" (2022), "Synchronize. Pan-African Film Networks" (2022)

Katharina Schröder
schroeder(at)kurzfilmtage.de

Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) is considered one of the seminal artists of the 1980s and '90s. He was one of the first to address, often subversively, the institutional and economic contexts of art in his installations and artworks. Film was one of the fundamental means of artistic expression for him and he left behind a cinematic oeuvre of around 50 short films, in which he also explored the history, technology and conventions of cinema. In 2008, Oberhausen showed his work Figures of Wax in its thematic program "Whose History?". Now the festival presents a selection of Broodthaers' short films in an extensive Profile.

Born in 1980 in the USA and raised in Lesotho and South Africa, his central theme is life in South Africa after the end of apartheid. He has been making films since 2004; the first of his works screened in the International Competition in Oberhausen was Kinshasa 2.0 in 2008. His films have been shown worldwide at film festivals and in art contexts, in Oberhausen he won the Principal Prize of the International Jury in 2013 for Gangster Backstage, and the First Prize of the Jury of the Ministry of Culture and Science NRW and the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury in 2020 for Shepherds. The Profile will offer an overview of his short film works.

Presenting a rare opportunity to discover Alexandra Gulea's short films: Born in Romania, Gulea studied art in Bucharest and Paris and film in Munich. She has been making short and feature-length films since 2000 – documentary and experimental works about the country of her birth, about memory and history, visually powerful and complex. Oberhausen screened her first film Anonym in 2001, and she has twice won the Prize of the German Competition: in 2018 for VALEA JIULUI - NOTES, in 2022 for ŃEALE AZBUIRĂTOARE (FLYING SHEEP). This Profile will present the artist's complete body of short film work.

The New York experimental filmmaker and poet has been making films for nearly 40 years. Her work is feminist, subjective, addressing political and social issues and weaving archival footage, photographs, poetry and music, image and sound into complex and poetic films. Her films have repeatedly been screened at our festival and in 2020 she won the Grand Prize of the City of Oberhausen for A Month of Single Frames. In 2023, we are presenting an overview of Sachs' oeuvre.

In 2018, she won the Zonta Prize at Oberhausen for her film Tsuchi no hito - 2017 gekijyoban (Mud Man – 2017 Film Ver.), and in 2020, Chinbin Western was screened in the International Competition. The Japanese artist and filmmaker's subject matter is the history, politics and culture of her native Okinawa, with a particular focus on the consequences of World War II. She has had a number of exhibitions in her homeland and won the Asian Art Award in 2017, but in Europe Yamashiro's work remains to be discovered. Oberhausen is presenting a selection of her work.

Sandor Aguilar (2017), Eija-Lisa Ahtila (2000), Victor Alimpiev/Olga Stolpovskaya (2006), Wojciech Bakowski (2014), Craig Baldwin (2000), Baloji (2021), Melika Bass (2021), Guy Ben-Ner (2007), Majoleine Boonstra (2007), Louise Botkay (2018), Linda Christanell (2012), Raquel Chalfi (2016), Jem Cohen (2001), Josef Dabernig (2016), Kiri Dalena (2019), Amit Dutta (2010), Nicolás Echevarría (2009), Heinz Emigholz (2001), Factory of Found Clothes (2009), Helga Fanderl (2013), Jeanne Faust (2016), Morgan Fisher (2022), Herbert Fritsch (2009), Susannah Gent (2020), Karpo Godina/Želimir Žilnik (2002), Marina Grižnić/Aina Šmid (2003), Bert Haanstra (1998), Anne Haugsgjerd (2016), Stefan Hayn (2005), James Herbert (1999), Sohrab Hura (2022), Yamada Isao (2004), Ito Takashi (2015), Ken Jacobs (1996), Jim Jennings (1998), William E. Jones (2011), Larry Jordan (2001), Aryan Kaganof (2014), Kanai Katsu (2007), Patrice Kirchhofer (2008), Ken Kobland (2007), Rainer Komers (2022), Eva Könnemann (2018), Andrew Kötting (2008), Petar Krelja, Krsto Papić and Zoran Tadic (2013), Grzegorz Królikiewicz (2011), Mark Lewis (2005), Salomé Lamas (2018), Marie Lukáčová (2021), Dušan Makavejev (2003), Mara Mattuschka (2014), John Maybury (2002), Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo (2020), Bjørn Melhus (2017), Deimantas Narkevicius (2014), Erkka Nissinen (2015), Matsumotu Toshio (2009), Münchner Gruppe: Klaus Lemke/Rudolf Thome/Max Zihlmann (2003), Gunvor Nelson (2010), Robert Nelson (2006), Vera Neubauer (2012), Ho Tzu Nyen (2013), No Wave (2010), Jayne Parker (2004), Kayako Oki (2019), Miranda Pennell (2006), Ilppo Pohjola (2012), Shalimar Preuss (2022), Luther Price (2013), Laure Prouvost (2013), William Raban (2015), Jennifer Reeder (2015), Lis Rhodes  (2008), Jósef Robakowski (2005), Roee Rosen (2012), Roter Hahn 1907 (2011), Larissa Sansour (2017), Sarajevo Documentary School (2009), Boris Schafgans (2006), Sylvia Schedelbauer (2022), Maya Schweizer (2020), John Smith (2002), Alexander Sokurov (2019), Eva Stefani (2019), Barbara Sternberg (2017), Sun Xun (2016), Eszter Szabó (2022), Jaan Toomik (2017), Salla Tykkä (2021), Robert Van Ackeren (2001), Mona Vătămanu & Florin Tudor (2018), Vipin Vijay (2015), Laura Waddington (2005), Orson Welles (2000), Joyce Wieland (2002), Charles Wilp (2001), John Wood & Paul Harrison (1999), Fred Worden (2010), Nina Yuen (2017) and Akram Zaatari (2008).

Here you can find the profiles from the last year.

Katharina Schröder
schroeder(at)kurzfilmtage.de

Introduced in 2006, this series of discussions has quickly established as a place to engage with film. Here, scholars, curators, artists and authors discuss current aesthetic, technological, cultural-political and economic issues relating to short film. The steadily growing audience is invited to participate. Among those who have been in Oberhausen so far are: Catherine David, Chris Dercon, Diedrich Diederichsen, Adrienne Goehler, Alexander Horwath, Oskar Negt, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Martha Rosler and Akram Zaatari.

Susannah Pollheim
pollheim(at)kurzfilmtage.de

In 2006 Oberhausen introduced this section, thus closing a gap: An international platform for screenings, encounters and expert discussions, specifically tailored to distributors of avant-garde and experimental films, did not exist at the time. The section very quickly developed into the world's largest showcase for art film distributors and is today a permanent fixture in the appointment calendar of professionals interested in short film. Representatives of all distributors are in Oberhausen. This makes this programme series not only a showcase for current international artistic moving images, but also a lively platform for maintaining contacts and exchanging ideas.

Jessi Manstetten
muvi(at)kurzfilmtage.de

Kristina Henschel
henschel(at)kurzfilmtage.de

Launched in 2018, the re-selected project will take three years to devote itself to selected films from the analogue stock of the Oberhausen archive at the designated "end of the analogue age" and to examine film history as the history of individual film copies.

Rather than propagating the digital "rescue" of a cinematic work as an ideal, the project is interested precisely in the peculiarities of a copy, which are usually erased during digitisation. They can provide information about a concrete development, local public spheres and contemporary historical constellations. Where and when was a film shown at all, who saw it, in which version, in which composition? Every copy is an original - and not only when it turns out to be the only remaining copy of a film.

re-selected is a joint project headed by Tobias Hering and run by the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and the Arsenal – Institute for Film and Video Art as part of "Archive außer sich" in cooperation with the House of World Cultures, funded within the framework of "Das Neue Alphabet" by the BKM based on a resolution of the German Bundestag.

Katharina Schröder
schroeder(at)kurzfilmtage.de

Kristina Henschel
henschel (at) kurzfilmtage.de

Pia Fink
fink(at)kurzfilmtage.de

Lithuania (2022) and Portugal (2020).

Hilke Doering
doering(at)kurzfilmtage.de

Since 1998, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen shows a selection of trend-setting international music videos and formally exceptional works - a showcase of current developments in the music video genre.

Contact
Jessica Manstetten
muvi(at)kurzfilmtage.de

A programme of international music videos for kids aged 14 and older. MuVi 14+ is a rich and varied cross section of recent video clips ranging from handmade to computer-generated. 

Contact
Jessica Manstetten
muvi(at)kurzfilmtage.de

Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the MuVi Award with a screening of all 1st Prize winners since 1999 – fast forward through 25 years of German music video history

On its first day, Oberhausen traditionally shows short films that have received awards at other festivals. A cross-section of the past festival season.
26.4. 17:15 h, Lichtburg Filmpalast

To mark the conclusion of the festival, the Oberhausen team will personally introduce their favourites from this year’s competitions.

Get into the festival spirit with a look at some highlights from last year’s competitions.

Oberhausen’s Filmgeflacker art collective is presenting films from this year’s competitions and inviting the filmmakers to discuss their works with the audience.

In cooperation with the One Minutes Foundation, Oberhausen presents one-minute films in two series curated for the festival.

Contact
Susannah Pollheim
pollheim(at)kurzfilmtage.de

42 one-minute films from Europe, made by and for young people.

The Milan-based organisation has been producing, exhibiting, cataloguing, preserving and promoting film and media art since 1987. Marta Bianchi presents a selection.

Nine audience award winners from other European short film festivals demonstrate the creative diversity of European cinema in two programmes.

The Kinemathek im Ruhrgebiet/FilmArchiv has been collecting and restoring historical film material from the former coal-mining area for more than 40 years. In Oberhausen, the initiative will once again show highlights from its holdings, this year including works on the occupation of the Ruhr in 1923 and the diversion of the lower reaches of the Emscher in the late 1940s. Presented and introduced by its director, Paul Hofmann.

Filmmakers from North Rhine-Westphalia get carte blanche for a programme of their own films and formative works by other filmmakers. This year by and with Miriam Gossing and Lina Sieckmann from Cologne.

A special selection of films from our Theme programme on machinima for people from the age of 14.

A journey through more than 100 years of film history for everyone from the age of six, from the first film ever screened to the public to dancing robots.

A biased selection from the last works of Jean-Marie Straub and a tribute to a passionate and rebellious cineaste and frequent guest in Oberhausen.

A personal selection by former festival director Angela Haardt on the occasion of her 80th birthday with films by Ruchir Joshi, Walid Ra’ad, Toshio Matsumoto a.o.

Analogue films from the School Friedl Kubelka in Vienna, curated by Philipp Fleischmann and presented as a cooperation of the ESFN.

Drei argentinische Projekte widmen sich den Super-8-Filmen von Narcisa Hirsch, Marie Louise Alemann und Sergio Levin, jeweils mit dem Ziel, ein Archiv zu etablieren. Federico Windhausen (Filmhistoriker, Kurator und Autor) stellt die unterschiedlichen Herangehensweisen vor und zeigt digitalisierte Filmbeispiele.