PRESERVING CULTURAL TRADITIONS
IN A PERIOD OF INSTABILITY

by FORDBROTHERS (Thomas Draschan & Sebastian Brameshuber)

Austria 2004 l 3 min l 35 mm l colour
Production: Amour Fou

World Premiere: Split Filmfestival, Croatia (June 26th - July 2nd 2004)

trailer l photos l bio l filmo l press

Awards/Highlights:
NoBudget Price of the Jury (International Short Film Festival Hamburg 2005)
"Honorable Mention" at Media City 11, February 2005
Impakt-Highlights Tour 2005
London Film Festival Tour 2005
43rd Ann Arbor Film Festival Tour 2005
Media Art Friesland Tour 2005

Festivals:
Europ. Kurzfilmbiennale Ludwigsburg 05
25fps Zagreb 05
Viper Basel 05
European Media Arts Festival Osnabrück 05
Int. Kurzfilmfestival Hamburg 05
Skif-9 Festival 05, St. Petersburg
Videology Festival 05, Voldograd
BO2 Festival 05, Toulouse
Kurzfilmtage Winterthur 05
New York Underground Filmfest 05
17th Onion City Experimental Film and Video Film Festival Chicago, 2005
Diagonale Graz 2005
Crossing Europe Linz 2005
Vila do Conde FF 05, Portugal
bfi - Sutherland Trophy Tour - New Films from New Film-makers, Jan. -April 2005
29. Open Air FF Weiterstadt 05
Ann Arbor 05, March 15-20, 2005
London Film Festival,19 Oct. - 3 Nov. 2005
San Francisco Independent Film Festival, February 3 – 15, 2005
MEDIA CITY 11, Feb 9-12, 2005
Nashville Film Festival, April 14-21, 2005
Hong Kong International Film Festival 05
Max Ophüls Film Festival Saarbrücken 05
Impakt Highlights Tour 04
Impakt Utrecht 04
Media Art Festival Friesland 04
Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 04
London Film Festival, 20 October - 4 November 2004
Cine y Casi Cine Madrid 04
Split Film Festival 04
Independent Film Festival Barcelona 04
Kunstfilmbiennale Köln 04
Vila do Conde FF 04, Portugal

TV:
Videodrome/ HRTV Croatia (January 2005)

Screenings at the 43rd Ann Arbor Tour 2005:
Reed College Portland, College of the Atlantic Bar Harbor,
The Guild Cinema Albuquerque, University of California Davis,
Cincinnati Film Society, Foothill College San Francisco,
Capri Theatre Montgomery, Aurora Picture Show Houston,
Delta Film Works Monroe, LA, Pittsburgh Filmmakers
Pittsburgh, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Union Theater
Milwaukee, Cornell Cinema Ithaca, The Film Theatre at U.I.C.A.
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts Grand Rapids, Central Michigan
University Mt. Pleasant, Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, City Club Cinema Minneapolis, Cleveland Institute of Art
Cinematheque Cleveland, Detroit Film Theater - DIA Detroit,
Ithaca College Ithaca

Screenings at the Impakt-Highlights Tour:
Filmhuis Den Haag, The Haque, The Netherlands
The Red House, Sofia, Bulgaria
New York Underground Filmfest, New York, USA
Dutch Open, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Skif-9 festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia
DOM, Moskow, Russia
Cinefantom, Moskow, Russia
Videology festival, Voldograd, Russia
BO2 festival, Toulouse, France
De Stad als Theater, Zwolle, The Netherlands
Pacific Film Archive, Berkely, USA

Fordbrothers explode the visual field as a strangely familiar, but unidentified, voice rails against computer technology and modern society. (Mark Webber)