Alexander Dirninger

Movies

Heimsuchung
Director of Photography
Die Schwingen des Geistes
Cinematography
A failed musicologist Szabo and his younger successful ex-colleague Fitzthum take on a new series of adventures. This time they need to find a substitute for a missing parrot of a rare breed as well as bribe a foreign university professor with a rare Viennese vinyl.
The Victory of Charity
Cinematography
A music professor facing redundancy and a serious hoarding habit is pushed to extremes when he discovers his girlfriend has given a treasured 1960s band jacket to charity. He enlists a young ambitious musicologist to accompany him on a mission to retrieve the jacket.
Theeb
Gaffer
In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming of age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination.
Smother
Cinematography
Due to her alcohol addiction and a resulting car accident, Michi has lost the trust of her young daughter Hanna and her husband Alex. After the sudden death of Michi's estranged father, the young family drives to her parents' house in the country. After the funeral, Michi decides to stay there for a few days with Hanna hoping to regain her daughter's trust. Soon repressed memories of Michi's childhood and the suicide of her mentally ill mother surface. She numbs herself with alcohol and drives another wedge between herself and her daughter. At the height of her madness, Michi must confront her own demons to save her daughter.