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«HALF-TIME», 2008
«STAYING / LEAVING», Music Film 2006
Work in progress: «LIFE PORTRAITS», About Viennese musicians and other masters of the art of living. Portrait Series 2004
«IN OUT» - Move the World - tai chi dancing, Music Film 2002
«The 99 most important inventions of mankind», Short Film 2000
«ORVUSE ON OANWE» - Vienna's last Doodlers, Music Documentary 1998
«HALF-TIME»
Nominated for the Rose d'Or 2009
Multicoloured, multilayered, adventurous – a very personal view of two neighbouring countries:
Switzerland and Austria.
The singer and film-maker Christina Zurbrügg has spent half her life in Switzerland, the other half in Austria. She now has arrived in the middle of life. HALF TIME, that is. Reason enough to lightheartedly ponder about one’s life – and about life itself.
The words she most often heard in Austria were: “Oh, your name is Zurbrügg like the ski-racer…”
About the most important export from Switzerland to Austria: The Habsburg family that was driven away by the Swiss people. And furthermore: the Swiss collection of relics and a little lexicon for everyday use about “Weggli” and “Semmel”, “Herrgöttli” and “Pfiff”, “Wienerli” and “Berner Würstel”.
With: Christina Zurbrügg, Lisa Fischer, Thomas Fischer, Franz Hohler, Oscar Knapp, Richard Weihs
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Directed by: Christina Zurbrügg & Michael Hudecek
Script und music: Christina Zurbrügg
Cinematographer: Christian Haake, Michele Pellegrino
Editor: Michael Hudecek
Production Company: GAMSfilm in coproduction with ORF and SF, supported by FERNSEHFONDS AUSTRIA, sponsored by RIVELLA
Head of production: Johannes Fiala. Production assistant: Max Berger, Joe Berger. Assisting director: Axel Hoffmann. Lighting: Paul Schön. Settings: Laura Weiss. Sound: Wolfgang Mohaupt, Odo Grötschnig. Make up: Carmen Schneider. Grafics & Animation: Thomas Treu. Special Fashion: Leo Oswald.
Austria-Switzerland 2008, German/Schwyzerdütsch, Colour/b&w, 16:9, 61 minutes DigiBeta
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«STAYING / LEAVING»
a film by zurbrügg & hudecekAwarded with the "Golden Dragon" - Switzerland 200
Awarded with the "Golden Dragon" - Switzerland 2007
A little village in the Swiss Alps: Kiental. This village served Friedrich Dürrenmatt as inspiration for his play “The Visit”. In the fifties the mysterious unknown camera man Landtwing filmed there. Christina Zurbrügg – singer, writer and film maker – was born there and Dürrenmatt quite often sat in the baking-house with her grandfather. Many years later she is entrusted with the film reels. She travels to her home village and with poetry and humour tells us about memories and reality, past and present. A found footage remix.
Directed by: Christina Zurbrügg & Michael Hudecek
Script and music: Christina Zurbrügg
Cinematographer: Hannes Julie Drapal / Herr Landtwing
Editor: Michael Hudecek
Quotes: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Production company: GAMSfilm 2006 in coproduction with 3sat, ORF and SF, supported by Filmfonds Wien and Amt für Kultur Kanton Bern
60 minutes, colour, 4:3, 16mm/DV/DigiBeta
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About Viennese musicians and other masters of the art of living
with Kurt Schaffer and Kurt Girk
We are quite familiar with Viennese music of the 19th century, from the turn of the century up to the second world war. But only little information has been secured about the post war generation that grew up with American jazz and traditional music.
A jig-saw puzzle of personal memories and experiences – unique and irretrievable examples of Vienna’s cultural history. A picture of a vanishing culture of life.
Director: Christina Zurbrügg & Michael Hudecek
Camera: Bernhard Pötscher
Editor: Michael Hudecek
Production: GAMSfilm 2004
Supported by Kulturamt der Stadt Wien
2 x 25 Minuten, Colour/b&w, DV/DigiBeta
«IN OUT» - Move the World
A film with Birgit HeynDancing, meditating, fighting, moving joyfully through everyday life, through your dreams...
A film journey to the middle – to the centre, a slow dance, a love story, a musical experience. The Viennese pharmacist and Ayurveda-specialist Birgit Heyn travels to places in Europe and Asia that have grown important to her and shows six different forms of Tai Chi. Fascination of slow motion in the fast moving world of today.
Directed by: Christina Zurbrügg
Photography: Bernhard Pötscher
Editor: Michael Hudecek
Script / idea: Birgit Heyn
Lyrics: Heinz R. Unger
Music: zurbrügg & hudecek (Soundtrack CD: tai chill)
Production: Birgit Heyn and GAMSfilm 2002
with: Birgit Heyn, Heinz R. Unger, Abraham Soenarso, Eva Pilz, Uli Linauer, Elisabeth Maly
48 minutes, colour, german/english, 16:9, DV/DigiBeta
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«The 99 most important inventions of mankind»
A film by zurbrügg & hudecek
Since humans have inhabited this planet, they have used the creative power of their minds to shape their lives and their environment. Miles and miles of cerebral coils presented to us these 99 beneficial inventions.
Presentation on November 23, 2000 at the opening of the exhibition «Inventions we don’t need either» of the Nonseum at the Palais Palffy
Script, Directors, Photography, Editing, Actors:
Michael Hudecek and Christina Zurbrügg (A/CH)
Length: 8min06
Production: Gamsfilm
«ORVUSE ON OANWE»
Vienna's last Doodlers
A film by Christina ZurbrüggThree Viennese singers, Trude Mally, Poldi Debeljak and Luise Wagner, are the last folk singers who have mastered the almost forgotten art of "doodling" (a Viennese version of alpine yodeling). When they are gone, a part of Viennese musical tradition will disappear with them forever. The life stories of these women and of the singing landlady Anny Demuth are unique documents of Viennese folk music.
«Cities have their own face and their own voice. A city is a big landscape in itself. The doodlers are the voice of this landscape – unmistakable and unique»
Dr. Erhard Busek
Directed by: Christina Zurbrügg
Script: Martin Auer based on an idea of Christina Zurbrügg
Cinematography: Heinz Brandner, Renée Kellner, Wolfgang Thaler, Robert Winkler
Editing: Zuzana Brejcha, Michael Hudecek
Animation: Martin Auer
Music: Reinhard Ziegerhofer
Scientific advice: Maria Walcher
Cast: Poldi Debeljak, Trude Mally, Luise Wagner, Anny Demuth, Pepi Matauschek a. o.
Production Company: A GAMS-Production of the Musikverein Café de Chinitas in cooperation with Österreichisches Volksliedwerk
Austrian Support: BMUK, Stadt Wien, BKA, Wiener Städtische Versicherung
ORVUSE ON OANWE - Vienna's last doodlers,
Austria 1998
Viennese dialect, color/b&w, 54 min./Beta SP
ORVUSE ON OANWE! - SERVUS IN WIEN!
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