Christine A. Maier

참여 작품

Elfriede Jelinek - Language Unleashed
Camera Operator
Wunderkind, scandalous author, traitor to the fatherland, fury of the theater, feminist, fashion-lover, communist, pessimist, language terrorist, rebel, enfant terrible, nest fouler, brilliant, vulnerable artist, Nobel laureate. This film about Elfriede Jelinek, who in 2004 became the first Austrian author to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature, focuses on her artistic approach to language. The montage of archive material with voiceovers and interviews, some of them recently recorded, is told from Jelinek’s point of view.
Alice Schwarzer
Director of Photography
Chronicles the life of German feminist, author and activist Alice Schwarzer.
Johanna Dohnal - Visionary of Feminism
Director of Photography
Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly feminist politicians in Europe. As a member of the Austrian socialist government and the first Austrian minister for Women’s Affairs from 1990 to 1994, Dohnal was responsible for founding Austria’s first women’s refuge as well as criminalizing of marital rape. Yet her legacy remains yet to be discovered and re-examined. DIE DOHNAL makes a first step, and it makes Dohnal come alive.
쿠오바디스, 아이다
Director of Photography
1995년 세르비아군에 쫓기던 보스니아인들이 UN 캠프로 피신을 한다. UN군 통역관 아이다는 남편과 아들이 캠프 안으로 들어오지 못한 상태임을 알게 된다. 그들을 살리기 위해 동분서주한 끝에 무사히 캠프로 들어오지만 진짜 문제가 벌어진다. UN군은 보스니아인을 해치지 않겠다는 약속을 믿고 세르비아군을 캠프로 진입시킨다. 세르비아군은 약속과 달리 보스니아 남자들을 따로 분류해서 어딘가로 끌고간다. 아이다는 남편과 아들을 살리기 위해 다시한번 안간힘을 쓴다. 발칸반도에서 벌어진 인종학살은 상상조차 힘든 일이지만 실제 있었던 사건이고 그런 만큼 사건의 진상을 파악하는 것은 중요하다.
마드모아젤 파라디
Director of Photography
18th century Vienna. Maria Theresia von Paradis, a gifted piano player and close friend of Mozart's, lost her eye-sight as a child. Desperate to cure their talented daughter, the Paradis entrust Maria to Dr. Mesmer, a forward-thinking-physician who gives her the care and attention that she requires. With the doctor's innovative techniques of magnetism, Maria slowly recovers her sight. But this miracle comes at a price as the woman progressively starts to lose her gift for music.
One Day in Sarajevo
Director of Photography
Causes and consequences of the assassination that happened in Sarajevo a hundred years ago still continue to reverberate in Europe. On June 28, 1914 Gavrilo Princip assassinated the heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire Franz Ferdinand sparking World War I that marked the start of the 20th century. As Sarajevo commemorated the centennial of the assassination, different people had different interpretations of what happened in the city a century ago and different emotions about it. ONE DAY IN SARAJEVO tells about various perspectives of the anniversary in Sarajevo combining and contrasting footage filmed by citizens of Sarajevo (with small cameras and mobile phones) with scenes from feature films about the assassination by directors from Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina and the United Kingdom
Quarry
Director of Photography
Marble—in its raw state and as a noble product—is the matter that Quarry is made of. The film portrays two distinct interiors, a large underground marble quarry in Vermont, and several showrooms of Manhattan luxury condos. In between stands a solid reflection about the material choices associated to these architectures and the stone's value within a speculative economy.
러브 아일랜드
Director of Photography
크로아티아의 '러브아일랜드'에 만삭으로 휴가를 떠나온 브레보와 릴리안 부부. 휴양지에서 둘만의 사랑을 확인하며, 뜻깊은 시간을 보낸다. 그러던 어느날, 옛 동성연인 이었던 매력이 넘치는 플로라를 만나게 된다. 한때 너무 사랑했지만 결국 헤어지게 되었다. 만삭의 몸인 릴리안은 그녀를 잊지 못해 한밤중 플로라를 만나러가고 뜨거운 사랑을 나눈다. 그러던 중 브레보는 매혹적인 플로라 에게 관심을 가지게 되고, 그렇게 셋은 역동적인 사랑의 돌파구에 빠지게 되는데..
그녀들을 위하여
Director of Photography
호주 여행자 킴은 보스니아로 떠나기로 결심한다. 여행책자를 따라 비셰그라드라는 도시를 찾아간다. 보스니아와 세르비아의 국경에 위치한 이 작은 도시는 역사적 상흔과 굴곡을 깊이 간직한 곳이다. 킴은 낭만적 분위기의 빌리나 블라스 호텔에 묵게 되지만, 한밤중 알 수 없는 불면증에 시달린다. 그리고 다음날 전쟁 중에 이 호텔에서 무슨 일이 자행되었는지 알게 된다. 이 사건은 그녀의 삶을 송두리째 뒤흔든다. 그녀는 더 이상 보통의 관광객일 수도, 예전의 자신으로 되돌아갈 수도 없다.
Festung
Director of Photography
Johanna (13) is in love – but how is she to enjoy this rush of emotions when her violent prone father is returning to the family home? Torn between the wish to stay true to her father and the love for her boyfriend, Johanna is faced with an impossible decision. A story about family secrets, the chains of family loyalty and the power to break free.
그림자 속의 색채
Director of Photography
74살의 동갑내기 부부 프레드와 아니타는 두 명의 자녀를 키우며 50년 동안 부부로 행복하고 평범하게 살아왔다. 하지만 지난 시절과 최근의 변화들을 돌아보며 삶과 죽음을 생각하던 부부는 ‘잠시’ 떨어져 지내기로 한다.
Love of the Children
Director of Photography
Two single parents decide to move in together and their two teenage children fall in love.
기로에서
Director of Photography
루나와 아마르 부부는 그들의 사랑을 가로막는 모든 장애물을 극복하려 최선을 다한다. 멀리 떠났다 돌아온 남편, 아마르가 신앙심 깊은 인간이 되어 돌아오자, 루나는 모든 것을 의심하기 시작한다. 그녀는 과거의 아픈 상처에 힘들어하며 사랑에 대한 회의를 품게 된다.
인권에 관한 이야기
Director of Photography
세계인권선언 60주년을 맞아 유엔 인권고등판무관실(UNCHR)이 제안하고 ART for The World(NGO)가 제작한 인권에 관한 옴니버스 영화. 문화, 개발, 존엄과 정의, 환경, 젠더, 분배라는 6개의 테마로 한 22편의 단편으로 구성되어 있다. 세계적으로 유명한 영화감독, 예술가, 작가가 함께 작업한 대규모 프로젝트로 참여자들의 개성과 인권에 대한 시각을 엿볼 수 있다.
Itty Bitty Titty Committee
Director of Photography
High School grad and all American gal, Anna, finds her purpose and herself after she hooks up with the radical feminists in The Itty Bitty Titty Committee.
Reclaim Your Brain
Director of Photography
Frustrated, because he is forced to produce bad TV-shows, a manager of a TV-station, enters the station and manipulates the ratings, to initiate a TV-revolution.
Good Morning Austria
Director of Photography
A working day in Austria, 2004. Nine modern working-class heroes are engaged in their daily struggle of survival, accompanied, motivated and influenced by the country’s most popular radio station.
그르바비차
Director of Photography
에스마는 딸 사라를 혼자 키우고 있다. 그녀는 딸의 수학여행 경비를 벌기 위해 시내의 나이트 클럽에 웨이트리스로 취직을 해야 할 정도로 고달픈 삶을 살고 있다. 하지만 자신이 상이용사의 딸이라고 철석같이 믿고 있는 사라는 전사자 가족에게 수학여행 경비가 면제된다는 얘기를 듣고 엄마에게 아버지의 전사증명서를 받아오자고 한다. 에스마는 진실을 말해줄 수 없어 망설이지만 결국 사라가 출생의 비밀을 알게 되고 모녀는 갈등한다.
Lucy
Director of Photography
A young teenage single mother (Maggi) struggling to raise her baby daughter (Lucy) finds the weight of responsibility bearing down on her shoulders. Maggy was forced to grow up before her time. Thankfully for Maggi, her mother is always willing to help though Maggy still lives at home with her mother, it's obvious that she longs to gain some independendence. Meeting Gordon at a local club, who is a few years older, makes a living and has his own apartment. One night, after a heated argument with her mother, Maggi makes the decision to move in with Gordon. Though the pair subsequently make a sincere attempt to be good parents.and do what's best for Lucy, they soon find that taking on the responsibilities of adulthood aren't so easy when you've barely moved past childhood yourself.
Northern Skirts
Director of Photography
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria itself. Strangers in a strange land, they feel a sense of loss in their new, temporary environment. The five-some meet and get close to each other, hopelessly clinging to friendships and relationships with no future. They frequent cafés and train stations dreaming of a better tomorrow. Often, they just fall back on the prospect of short-term affection in yet another doomed romantic or sexual encounter. Trying hard to suppress the memories of war and alienation, they try to find moral strength and warmth through one another.
Sunspots
Director of Photography
Short film about a woman and a little girl.
The Fruit of thy Womb
Director of Photography
To evade the incomprehensible world of adults seven-year-old Natascha creates her own world, influenced by her impressions of sexuality and religion. It is a world of mainly catholic imaginations and symbols - a world between frightening bogey men and flying Christ children.
Somewhere Else
Director of Photography
Four months after the end of the war, four young people from Sarajevo share their experience, their thoughts and their hopes for the future, walking around the city in ruin.
Nachtschwalben
Director of Photography
Two girls in the disco give free rein to anger, nobody stops them.
Film or Power
Zagreb-born artist Vlado Kristl (1923-2004) was the most radical of the German auteur filmmakers. This is an anakofilm.