Virgil Widrich — Art & Science

University Professor

Virgil Widrich (b. 1967, Salzburg) works on numerous multimedia and film productions. He is one of the founders and Managing Directors of the multimedia company checkpointmedia GmbH and owner and Managing Director of Virgil Widrich Film- und Multimediaproduktions G.m.b.H.
He is Head of the Art & Science master programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna; supervises project works, master and PhD projects.

His first feature film is “Heller als der Mond” (“Brighter than the Moon”). His short film “Copy Shop” won 38 international awards and was nominated for the Oscar. “Fast Film” premiered in Cannes 2003 and won 36 awards until today. His most recent feature film is “Night of a 1000 Hours” (2016). In 2018 he directed his first music video “Nena & Dave Stewart: Be my Rebel”. In total, his work has been awarded more than 290 international awards. Virgil Widrich lives in Vienna, Austria.

Filmography:
MY HOMELIFE (short)
A 1980, Super-8-mm, 6 min.

GEBRATENES FLEISCH (short)
A 1980, Super-8-mm, 11 min.

DREI MAL ULF (short)
A 1980, Super-8-mm, 12 min.

AUCH FARBE KANN TRÄUMEN (short, animation)
A 1981, Super-8-mm, 12 min.

MONSTER IN SALZBURG (short, science fiction)
A 1982, Super-8-mm, 12 min.

VOM GEIST DER ZEIT (feature film)
A 1983-1985, Super-8-mm, 112 min.

TX-TRANSFORM (short) Co-directed by Martin Reinhart
A 1998, 35 mm Cinemascope, 5 min.

HELLER ALS DER MOND/BRIGHTER THAN THE MOON (feature)
Austria 2000, 35 mm, 88 min.

COPY SHOP (short)
A 2001, 35 mm, 12 min.

LINKSRECHTS (short)
A/France 2001, DV-CAM,4 min

FAST FILM (short)
A /Lux 2003, 35 mm, 14 min

BACK TRACK (short, 3D)
A 2015, DCP, 5 min

VIENNA TABLE TRIP (short)
A 2016, DCP, 1 min 22 sec

DIE NACHT DER 1000 STUNDEN/NIGHT OF A 1000 HOURS (feature film)
Lux/A/NL 2016, DCP, 92 min

NENA & DAVE STEWART: BE MY REBEL (music video)
D 2018, DCP, 3 min 45 sec

LIGHT MATTER (short)
A 2018, DCP, 5 min

TX-REVERSE (short) Co-directed by Martin Reinhart
A/D 2019, DCP, 5 min

ES IST GENAU GENUG ZEIT/THERE IS EXACTLY ENOUGH TIME (short), Co-directed by Oskar Salomonowitz
A 2021, DCP, 2 min

Homepage:
http ://www.widrichfilm.com
http://www.checkpointmedia.com
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