ART.Welten

ART.Welten is an Austrian association for independent artists. It was founded in 2005 by Monja Art, an Austrian film-maker and author, with the stated goal of being a place for artists to meet connected only by the "love of art". [cite web | url=http://www.art-welten.com/intention.html | title=ART.Welten Intention | accessdate=2006-07-27]

ART.Welten focuses on the spreading of non-mainstream art, especially that which is of queer-interest or opposes to discrimination due to race, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. [cite web | url=http://www.art-welten.com/imprint.html | title=ART.Welten Imprint | accessdate=2006-07-28]

History and current status

History

While working on her first feature [http://www.art-welten.com/anemonis/index.html Anemonis] , Monja Art founded the association ART.Welten with the two filmmakers and journalists Caroline Bobek and Patrick Dorner. Other founding members were Miha Veingerl and Bernhard Art.

After a few months independent filmmaker Sebastian Leitner joined the association with his production company [http://www.seb-productions.at/ SEB/.Productions] . Leitner brought in some new members - like filmmaker Louis-Jeremy Spieß and Thomas Seiger - and collaborated on several short films, starting with Monja Arts experimental short film [http://www.art-welten.com/welcome/index.html Welcome to my prison] .

Sebastian Leitner and his SEB/.Productions left ART.Welten after about a year. The last production, in which ART.Welten and SEB/.Productions cooperated was the short film [http://www.auspunkt.at/ AUS(punkt)] by Louis-Jeremy Spieß.

Current status

ART.Welten has elected a new directorate. Monja Art is president, Caroline Bobek is deputy president. Both were accepted at the [http://www.mdw.ac.at/I111/html/ Filmacademy Vienna] .

Patrick Dorner, Miha Veingerl and Bernhard Art remain as members of the directorate.

In 2007 several short films ( [http://www.art-welten.com/judas/index.html Judas] , [http://www.art-welten.com/lebenslagen/index.html Lebenslagen] , [http://www.art-welten.com/return/index.html Return to Laredo - Requiem for a Cowboy] ) and photography projects were produced.

Completed ART.Welten projects

Feature film

* [http://www.art-welten.com/anemonis Anemonis] (Monja Art, 2005)

Experimental short films

* [http://www.art-welten.com/welcome/welcome.html Welcome to my prison] (Monja Art, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/miseenordre/index.html Mise en ordre] (Caroline Bobek, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/television/index.html Télé-vision] (Caroline Bobek, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/freude/index.html Freude/Joy] (Monja Art, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/rosegarden/index.html Show me a rose garden] (Monja Art, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/lebenslagen/index.html Lebenslagen] (Caroline Bobek, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/judas/index.html Judas] (Monja Art, 2007)

Narrative short films

* [http://www.art-welten.com/kinematograph/kinematograph.html The Cinematographer] (Patrick Dorner, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/wein/index.html Ein Achterl und ein bisschen Liebe] (Sebastian Leitner, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/vorstellungen/index.html Vorstellungen] (Louis-Jeremy Spieß, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/thinking/index.html Thinking] (Louis-Jeremy Spieß, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/ssp/index.html Schere, Stein, Papier] (Louis-Jeremy Spieß, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/nachtstueck/index.html Nachtstück] (Caroline Bobek, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/behind/index.html Behind the colours of the night] (Monja Art, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/meinzimmer/index.html Mein Zimmer] (Monja Art, 2007)

Animated short films

* [http://www.art-welten.com/strom/index.html Gegen den Strom] (Monja Art, 2007)

Found-footage experiments

* [http://www.art-welten.com/digital.html It’s a digital world!] (Patrick Dorner, 2005)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/notes/notes.html Notes to anarchism] (Patrick Dorner, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/return/index.html Return to Laredo - Requiem for a Cowboy] (Patrick Dorner, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/filmingviolence/index.html Filming Violence, 1891 - 1903] (Patrick Dorner, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/zombieevolution/index.html Zombie Evolution] (Patrick Dorner, 2007)

Photography

* [http://www.art-welten.com/insonne/index.html insonne] (Andreas Schöttl, 2006)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/gone/index.html GONE] (Monja Art, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/thenewman/index.html The new man] (Antonia Barboric, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/people/index.html People - Closeness - View] (Antonia Barboric, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/crossing/index.html At the busy crossing] (Monja Art, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/operationvictoria/index.html Operation: Victoria] (Caroline Bobek, 2007)

Painting

* [http://www.art-welten.com/artonair/index.html ART on AIR] , 2006

Remittance Works & Co-Productions

* [http://www.art-welten.com/adihalfin/index.html Interview with Adi Halfin] (Monja Art, 2007)This was an Interview for the website [http://www.chilli.cc/ CHiLLi.cc]

* [http://www.auspunkt.at/ AUS(punkt)] (Louis-Jeremy Spieß, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/retour/index.html Le Retour du Fils] (Rares Ienasoaie, 2007)
* [http://www.art-welten.com/damenwahl/index.html Damenwahl] (Ivan Koytschev, 2007)

Participations and Awards

*"Anemonis": participated at the Alternative Film Festival [http://www.tromanale.de/2006/deintro2006.html Tromanale] 2006 in Berlin, Germany
*"Anemonis": Bronze Standard Award at the [http://www.theiac.org.uk/central/biaff2006_Top.html British International Amateur Film Festival] 2006

*"It’s a digital world!": participated at the [http://www.ciff2006.com/ Cyprus International Film Festival] 2006

*"Welcome to my Prison": was awarded at the [http://www.8ung.at/filmfestival/fdn/fdn-start.htm Festival der Nationen] 2006

*"Nachtstück": participated at the [http://www.jnf.at/ Judgement Night Festival] 2007
*"Nachtstück": participated at the [http://www.stolacfilmfestival.com/ Stolac Short Film Festival] 2007

*"Nachtstück": won a laudatory mention at [http://film.orf.at/shortsonscreen/preistraeger07.html shorts on screen] 2007Grounds of the Jury: "Laudatorily mentioned because of the originality concerning the association with erotic and the surprising results!"

References

External links

* [http://www.art-welten.com Official homepage of the association]
* [http://www.art-welten.com/rumundaehre Rum&Ähre]