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September 2007

We are happy to announce the premiere of the film&music soirée Free Radicals at the Biennale di Venezia on October 10 at Teatro alle Tese, Arsenal. The project realised in collaboration with Klangforum Wien and Minotaurus Film presents film and music in condensed form. The program will include brief musical compositions and short films rarely heard or seen in standard concert or cinema settings. By combining them, new rhythms, dramatic possibilities and interactions between sound and image are made possible.

To hear with the eyes, to see with the ears: Possibly the most exciting moments of the program will be those in which film and composition encounter each other directly. For Free Radicals, Klangforum Wien has commissioned three compositions to accompany Man Ray's "Le retour à la raison" from composers Theo Verbey, Misato Mochizuki and James Clarke.

A second crossover between seeing and hearing will take shape with two films by filmmaker Bady Minck developed for Free Radicals. Here the creative process played out in reverse, the source material was the music. The performers of both films are the composer and conductor Beat Furrer and the musicians of Klangforum Wien. Being and Nothingness (Das Sein und das Nichts) has been invited to more than 20 international film festivals so far, Seems To Be (Schein Sein) will be presented for the first time to an audience at the Biennale in Venice.

The second Free Radicals soirée takes places on November 1 in Vienna, at the opening night of the Wien Modern festival at Konzerthaus Wien.

Tickets for the second soirée in Vienna can be purchased on the Wien Modern website, informations on the program in Venice as well as on the availability of tickets can be found on the website of the Biennale.

Free Radicals
Music by Georges Aperghis, Harrison Birtwistle, James Clarke, Morton Feldman, Beat Furrer, David Horne, Witold Lutoslawski, Misato Mochizuki, Emilio Pomàrico, Arnold Schönberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Theo Verbey, Iannis Xenakis
Films by Robert Breer, Maya Deren, Barbara Doser, Karoe Goldt, Tim MacMillan, Mara Mattuschka, Bady Minck, Man Ray, Pipilotti Rist, Jòzef Robakowski, Paul Sharits, Peter Tscherkassky

August 2007

SILENT RESIDENT (Weiße Lilien)
a film by Christian Frosch
with Brigitte Hobmeier, Martin Wuttke, Johanna Wokalek, Erni Mangold, Walfriede Schmitt, Xaver Hutter and Gabriel Barylli
Austria / Germany / Luxembourg / Hungary 2007

and

SCHINDLER's HOUSES (Schindlers Häuser)
a film von Heinz Emigholz
Austria 2007

have been invited to the Toronto International Film Festival, taking place from September 6 to 15.

Silent Resident will celebrate its world premiere in Toronto 8th, 9.30 pm. The film was shot in Vienna and co-produced by KGP - Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production (A), Amour Fou Filmproduktion (A), Mediopolis (D), Minotaurus Film (Lux) and Eurofilm Studio (H). It was made possible by the financial support of ÖFI - Austrian Film Institute, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, FFW - Filmfonds Wien, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmfund Luxembourg, MDM - Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Motion Picture Public Foundation of Hungary, Hungarian Ministry for Education and Culture, MEDIA.

The international premiere of Schindler's Houses was celebrated in Berlin earlier this year, at the International Forum of New Cinema, Toronto will mark the film's North American premiere. The film will be screened on Sunday, September 9, at 9.45pm, together with Apitchatpong Weerasethakul's short film The Anthem. The film's Austrian premiere will take place at the Viennale Vienna International Film Festival in October 2007. "Schindler's Houses" was produced by Amour Fou Filmproduktion together with Heinz Emigholz Filmproduktion (Berlin), with financial support of Filmfonds Wien, ORF Film/Fernsehabkommen, BMUKK Film and WDR/3sat.

Christian Frosch and Heinz Emigholz will personally present their films in Toronto.

July 2007

We are happy to announce that the new films of Anja Salomonowitz, Lisl Ponger and Bady Minck have been invited to the renowned documentary film festival FID Marseille:

FID MARSEILLE - 18ème Festival international du Documentaire

July 4 - 9, 2007

Kurz davor ist es passiert/ It happened just before
a film by Anja Salomonowitz
Screening: July 4, 11.30am





Imago Mundi
a film by Lisl Ponger
Screening: July 4, 8.30pm and July 5, 8.15pm




Das Sein und das Nichts/ Being and Nothingness
a film by Bady Minck
Screening: July 4, 8.30pm and July 9, 1pm

It happened just before has recently been invited to the Festival Paris Cinema (Screenings: July 5, 6 and 9) and to the Jerusalem International Film Festival (Screenings: July 13 and 14). In Austria, the film will be theatrically released on October 5, 2007.

Being and Nothingness has been invited to the Brisbane International Film Festival (August 2 - 12), to the Linoleum Moscow Film Festival (August 15 - 18) and to the EXiS Experimental Film & Video Festival Seoul (August 24 - 30). Furthermore, it will be shown as part of a Bady Minck retrospective at the Cinéfleuve Festival in Trier (July 5 and 6), Charleroi (July 11) and Liège (July 15).

For more information on the films, please visit www.amourfou.at, www.anjasalomonowitz.com and www.badyminck.com.

We would be pleased to welcome you at one of the screenings.

June 2007

Dear All!

Six years after its formation, the film production company AMOUR FOU is
undergoing structural changes. The two executive directors, Gabriele
Kranzelbinder and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu, are going separate ways
and will forthwith be working as producers in two separate companies.
This new alignment is taking place consensually and with the approval of
all partners.

Gabriele Kranzelbinder carries on the previous Amour Fou Filmproduktion
GmbH as KGP – Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH. The KGP GmbH has
its company headquarters in Wien 7, Seidengasse 15/3/19. Sole partner
and executive director is Gabriele Kranzelbinder. The new website is:
www.kgp.co.at

The new AMOUR FOU GmbH of partners Bady Minck and Alexander
Dumreicher-Ivanceanu takes on the label AMOUR FOU. Company headquarters
of the new AMOUR FOU Filmproduktion GmbH is the current address Vienna
7, Lindengasse 32; executive director is Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu.
The website www.amourfou.at stays accessible.

The films of the company currently in production – especially “Loos
Ornamental” and “Kieslers Projektionen” by Heinz Emigholz, “Yoon” by
Christian Frosch and “Schein Sein” by Bady Minck – will be completed as
co-productions between KGP – Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production and
AMOUR FOU Filmproduktion.

Co-partners Virgil Widrich and Thomas Woschitz are retiring from the
company at their own request and will increasingly dedicate themselves
to their own artistic projects.

KGP GmbH acquires the shares of international film sales company Autlook
Film Sales, AMOUR FOU Filmproduktion GmbH acquires the shares of film
distribution company POOOL Filmverleih GmbH. The film rights catalogue
will be shared between KGP – Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production and
AMOUR FOU Filmproduktion.

Looking back, we are pleased with all the fine films we have produced
together in the last six years and are looking forward to the challenges
and productions of the next years.

Vive le cinéma!

Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Gabriele Kranzelbinder
Bady Minck
Virgil Widrich
Thomas Woschitz

For queries contact:

Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
Bady Minck
AMOUR FOU Filmproduktion GmbH
Lindengasse 32
A-1070 Wien
Tel +43 1 994 99 11 0
Fax +43 1 994 99 11 20
office@amourfou.at
www.amourfou.at

Gabriele Kranzelbinder
KGP –Kranzelbinder Gabriele Production GmbH
Seidengasse 15/3/19
A-1070 Wien
Tel +43 1 522 22 21
welcome@kgp.co.at
www.kgp.co.at

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