In 2010, Klaus Wyborny filmed the world premiere of his cinematic work STUDIEN ZUM UNTERGANG DES ABENDLANDES (STUDIES FOR THE DECAY OF THE WEST), 2010 in Vienna’s (meanwhile closed) Stadtkino at Schwarzenbergplatz. He liked the images from the dark movie theater, only partly lit by the film, so much that he did the same at later screenings, presented between Portugal and the United States, in order to weave these images into a fabric of places and times – into a vision of cinema gliding over continents through the light of the projector.What’s celebrated here is a practice that has to be defended for its inherent democratic spirit. In CINÉMA VÉRITÉ, Wyborny has now condensed this cinematic utopia into trailer length, to manifesto density. Cinema, as Wyborny understands it and as the Viennale practices it, is a constant departure into reality.

In July of this year, Hans Hurch travelled to Rome to meet Abel Ferrara and discuss the terms and content for a potential Viennale trailer with him. Following Hurch's unexpected death, Ferrara conceived the trailer as an obituary: We see a landscape at dusk and hear music and children crying in the distance. The face of the late Viennale director is superimposed, his first name pronounced by an electronically distorted voice that can hardly be understood. Captured in an extremely aesthetic manner, a photo of Bob Dylan in his youth and an emblematic image of John Ford with a black patch over his eye are rolling past. Abel Ferrara's trailer is a phantasmagoria, a visual game of deception, combining some of the things that were important to Hans Hurch with dream-like sequences and celebrating a moment of utmost existential compression. In his accompanying note, Ferrara wrote: "A small thank you to someone who constantly and consistently maintained the dream of the eternal cinema."

This is the festival trailer for Viennale - Vienna International Film Festival 2015. The trailer will be shown in over 100 cinemas in Austria and Germany and during the festival in several cinemas in Vienna.

Every year the Viennale invites a famous director to produce a short film as the festival trailer. In 2014 the choice has fallen on the 105-year old Manoel de Oliveira.

In 2012 the Vienna International Film Festival invited french filmmaker Chris Marker to direct the annual festival trailer .

A short film made up of four film clips from the 20th Century.

Gehr's camera shows drifting clouds on an almost blue sky with various background sounds.

Trailer for the 2002 Vienna International Film Festival.

Beach afternoon; run away at full speed. Official trailer of the International Film Festival Viennale 1999.

A white suited Elvis shown doing a stage performance. The footage is shown in a speeded up form. The sound track is a Viennese waltz.

ILLUSIONS and MIRRORS is about the futile attempt of chasing a shadow that wanders through the dunes of an empty beach. When it finally comes to an encounter in a deserted house, the young woman experienced a disturbing surprise.

One-minute short film, used as a trailer for the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale).

Initial a deep-sea diver is shown exploring a cave. Then a hand as shown handling a gastropod shell.

The opening trailer for the Viennale 2009.

A trailer for the 2007 Viennale.

The last minute in a man's life.

This is footage of Elvis Presley's last performance in New York on June 9th, 1972. It is preceded by footage I shot in Vienna a few years earlier. It is a unique recording whichever way you look at it.

24 formula on the medium film. 24 sound quotes on film history. 25 frames of a blink of an eye. Cinema is a battlefield and an amour fou, a time between two blinks of the eye and an artificially delineated territory between two signal beeps. Commissioned as a Viennale-Trailer 1996.

Avant-garde film commissioned as the trailer for the 1998 Viennale: Three scenes with Childrens playing, birds flying and a mother feeding her child in a beach.

21 fragments of a feature film, made in India, found in casablance, adapted in Vienna.