"Der Eiskasten (The Fridge) focusses on a
refrigerator, which suddenly appears on the stairs landing of
a house, through which and at which the residents act out their
quirks and their relationship to each other. The film is a little
reminiscent of Iosseliani's Favorites of the Moon, in which objects
are just as important as the characters. Psychological explanations
is not what this is about, but observable behaviour where everyone
can draw their own conclusions on the psychology of the characters." (film-dienst)
Written,
directed, edited by Robert Rutöd Director of
Photography Robert Györvari Camera assistent Christa
Engstler Associate director Stefan Daubrawa Production
design Eveline Haindl Produced by Robert
Rutöd, Helga Arnauer Music by ice-9, Béla
Bartók, Gaetano Donizetti Cast Maresi
Hochreiter, Leo Brandl, Christoph
Kollmann, Anna Winkler, Jakob
Bachmayer, Herbert Patrman, Franz
Winkler, Pepi Taschner, Peter
Patrman, Stefan Hermanek, Margarethe
Horacek, Selma Haindl – Austria
1990, 17 min, bw, 16 mm, 1:1.33, mono
Three
men in a waiting-room ... "A joke with a dramatic lack of punch-line:
provocative four minutes about the bizarre Austrian psyche.
Or: a rubber boat, a rifle, a duck, a chase after a feather
and taking off into the blindingly bright beyond – that is:
the other side of the door." (Stefan Grissemann about
Catch A Cold)
Written, directed,
edited by Robert Rutöd Director of Photography Robert
Györvari Associate director Stefan Daubrawa Collaboration Helga
Arnauer, Eveline Haindl Music by Krzysztof
Meyer, Gregorio Allegri, Alex Tschallener, Gregor
F. Narholz Cast Peter
Patrman, Karl Rohrauer, Werner
Glogowatz – Austria 1993, 4 min, bw, 35 mm, 1:1.85,
stereo
Bonus: Video with photographs
and texts from the book
grayscales. early b&w photographs 1978-1988
Texts by Robert
Rutöd Reading
by Paul
Gruber – Austria 2017, 17 min
German version without subtitles + German version with English subtitles
I am very
happy to be here – John Paul II in Vienna 1983
Excerpt from the bonus track grayscales. early b&w photographs 1978-1988
