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 © 1996
10 min 56 sec
Super 8
35mm & 16mm
Sixpack Film (Wien)
Light Cone (Paris) (16mm)
Canyon Cinema (San Francisco) (16mm)
      A found footage film about oral rituals, about festive occasions and about a married couple who understood how to enrich and enliven their cosy togetherness. We see the pair pouring drinks, cutting cakes, making toasts... Finally the exuberant movement of the dancing woman freezes. It is a deeply ambiguous moment that, from the expression on her face, allows one to think of something close to despair. On something like a modern, alienated, baroque vanity motive, which is still present in the Austrian tradition, and whose abrasion with the sensual certainty of the moment of drinking an egg liqueur gives Happy-End a wider meaning


Bert Rebhandl

Goethe-University at Frankfurt/Main (Germany), acquired Happy-End for their permanent collection.

Happy-End was shown at the following festivals:

Rotterdam 1997 – 26. Int. Filmfestival (NL)
Utrecht – Impakt 1997 (NL)
Osnabrück 1997 – European Media Art Festival (D)
Huesca 1997 – Festival de Cine (E)
Pesaro 1997 – Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema (I)
Teplice 1997 – Int. Art Film Festival Trencianske (SK)
Austin 1997 Cinematexas – Int. Short Film+Video+New Media Festival (USA)
New York 1997 – 35. Film Festival (USA)
Split 1997 – 2nd Festival of New Film and Video (HR)
New Orleans 1997 – Film & Video Festival (USA)
Denver 1997 – Int. Film Festival (USA)
Amascultura 1997 – VIII Int. Documentary Film Festival (P)
Winterthur 1997 – Kurzfilmtage (CH)
Aix-en-Provence – 15. Festival Tous Courts 1997 (F)
Milano – DOC 1997 (I)
Stuttgart / Wand 5 / 1998 – 11. Filmwinter (D)
Ann Arbor 1998 – 36. Film Festival (USA), Isabella Liddell Art Award
Humboldt 1998 – Int. Film Festival (USA)
Images 1998 – Toronto Independent Film & Video Festival (CAN)
VIPER 1998 – Int. Film Video u. Multimedia Festival Luzern (CH)
Vic 1998– Mostra de Film Documental (E)
Helsinki 1998 – Muu Media Festival (FIN)
Uppsala 1998 – 17. Int. Short Film Festival (S)
Olympia 1998 – Film Festival (USA)
Leeuwarden 1998 – Noordelijk Film Festival (NL)
Wunsiedel 2000 – Grenzland Filmtage (D)
Vevey – Argos 2000 (CH)
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