Amour Fou film production

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The Amour Fou Filmproduktion is an Austrian film production company based in Vienna was founded in the late 2001 by Austrian film directors and producers.

The main activity of the company, which has named itself “ Amour Fou ” after its “crazy love” for film, is the in-house production of high-quality short and feature films for cinemas and film festivals. In addition, commercials are also produced that are viewed as a challenge to link art and commerce . The own claim to the films is that they jump over the boundaries between the film genres and question and reflect the history, present and future of film and society. In addition, Amour Fou's own productions are located in the area of ​​tension between avant-garde and narration . Co-productions often take place with Luxembourg and French film companies.

history

The founding members of the company, which was founded in autumn 2001 and can be classified as independent and avant-garde film , were the directors Virgil Widrich , Bady Minck and Thomas Woschitz as well as the producers Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu and Gabriele Kranzelbinder , who took over the management, and the film distributor Polyfilm . On April 11, 2002 the offices in Vienna's seventh district of Neubau were inaugurated.

Even before the first Amour Fou productions were completed, a campaign including a signature campaign was initiated against the cancellation of the ORF program “ Kunststücke ”, which ultimately could not be prevented despite over 15,000 signatures and a complaint to the Federal Communications Senate signed by 850 ORF viewers. At the beginning of 2002 Martin Arnold presented his experimental work Deanimated in the Kunsthalle Wien . This film shows the Hollywood film Invisible Ghost without actors who have been retouched.

For the first time for large media coverage provided Amour Fou in the spring of 2003, when four films of only little more produced-do Amour Fou on the International Film Festival of Cannes were seen: Ruth Mader's feature film debut Struggle in the series Un Certain Regard , Virgil Widrich Fast Film as Nomination for the best short film and Bady Minck's In the beginning was the look and pas de repos pour les braves / No rest for the heroes by Alain Guiraudie in the avant-garde series . The latter film is a co-production with a French film company and was considered one of the best and most absurd films of the festival. The film was later awarded the "Prix Ciné & FX" at the Belgian "Féstival International du Film Francophone de Namur" for its special effects, which were staged in the post-production of Amour Fou. Also Struggle was international interest received and invited to autumn 2003 to 23 festivals, while the film was more criticized in the Austrian media whether its similar content compared to other recent Austrian productions.

The success in Cannes, which is extraordinary not only for a newly founded film company, but also for Austrian film as a whole, brought the young company not only national and international attention, but also numerous festival invitations and film project offers. Five Austrian productions , including Michael Haneke's Wolfzeit, were shown at those festivals . For comparison: In 2003, as in the ten years before, Germany was not represented with a single film in Cannes.

In 2005, together with Lotus Film and Veronika Morawetz, who is experienced in film distribution, the Poool film distribution company was founded in order to revive the Austrian distribution scene , which is still firmly in foreign, primarily US-American hands, and to enable Austrian films to be marketed individually and tailored to target groups. The first film in this distribution was Jörg Kalt's feature film Crash Test Dummies (late 2005), an Amour Fou co-production with the German ICON-Film . Together with Nikolaus Geyrhalter -Film and Navigator Film , a film distributor was founded at the beginning of the same year with Autlook , which also includes international productions, such as Eastern European productions, in its range.

In 2007 the company was mutually restructured: Bady Minck and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu took over the Amour Fou label and re-founded the company as "Amour Fou Filmproduktion", while Gabriele Kranzelbinder continued the film production under the name KGP Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production at a different location. Virgil Widrich and Thomas Woschitz left the company in order to devote more time to their own projects. Productions that had not yet been completed at the time of the restructuring , such as the arthouse thriller Silent Resident by Christian Frosch , were completed as a co-production between the two companies. The rights to films that have already been completed have been divided. KGP now holds the shares in the world sales organization Autlook Sales, while Amour Fou holds the shares in the film distribution company Poool.

Regardless of the Amour experienced in 2007 Fou-production Just before it happen by Anja Salomonowitz its premiere at the Berlinale (Forum of the International Films), the film has won several international film awards, including the Caligari Film Prize at the Berlinale and the Artistic Innovation Award in Mar del Plata. For 2008 Amour Fou Filmproduktion planned the completion of Heinz Emigholz's architecture film Loos Ornamental about the complete works of Adolf Loos ; This is the second film in a three-part series about Austrian architects, the first part of which -  Schindler's Houses  - has been invited to the 2007 Berlinale and the 2007 Toronto Film Festival.

technology

In the premises of the company headquarters at Lindengasse 32 in Vienna-Neubau there is hardware and software including staff for digital editing and post-production of films. The studio contains and uses the following systems (as of January 2007):

  • Digital Fusion Coloring & Compositing (2D and 3D)
  • Studio Max 3D Modeling & Animation
  • Pro Tools & Final Cut Pro editing suites
  • Editing room (for external rental)
  • tx transformations

Filmography

The following is a selection of films produced or co-produced by Amour Fou :

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of Virgil Widrich. ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ( MS Word ; 414 kB) on widrichfilm.com; Retrieved April 11, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.widrichfilm.com
  2. ↑ Profile , May 26, 2003, pp. 134–135, amourfou.at (PDF)
  3. ↑ Mediabiz magazine , Vienna, September 2003, amourfou.at (PDF)
  4. ↑ Communication. Amour Fou, June 2007; Retrieved August 10, 2007