Generally considered one of Cronenbergs crowning achievements, Videodrome is the story of television programmer Max Renn, whose world is instantly transformed when he is trapped inside the channel Videodrome.

Videodrome only transmits hardcore S/M films together with hallucination-inducing signals, and Max and his girlfriend Nicki, played by Debbie Harry, enters a world where the boundaries between real and unreal are slowly dissolved.

Created by an organization whose goals are to revolutionize the world in the bloodiest way possible, Videodrome is meant to herald the coming of a new world order, with Max as caught in centre of the conspiracy.

Arsenal Kino celebrates the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the German premiere of the omnibus film Stories on Human Rights.

Initiated by Art For The World, the project unites video artists like Pippilotti Rist, Marina Ambramovic and Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster with internationally acclaimed filmmakers such as Walter Salles, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Idrissa Ouedraogo. The collection of 11 shorts is screened with English subtitles.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the declaration on human rights, the Vienna based Schikaneder and Top Cinema will be hosting the first International Human Rights Film Festival in Austria: this human world

Outstanding and remarkable current productions on the issue of Human Rights as well as Austrian premieres of award-winning international films will be shown during 10 days.

this human acts as an independent film festival that tends not to ignore any of film genres dealing with human rights, but rather to select the exceptional and late-breaking artworks. Henceforward this human world will be held every year to promote education on human rights issues through the medium film. The festival intends to reinforce the attention and sensibility of the Austrian public for contemporary films on these explosive and problematic topics. From today's educational and political perspective the confrontation with human rights in film embedded in a yearly film festival is a necessary enrichment for a city like Vienna, where artists, intellectuals, and many others are mingling.

To date Austria has been lacking a film festival that deals with the globally discussed topic of human rights in the form of an annual international film festival, and its respective discussion in the media.

The inauguration of this human world will take place on December 2, 2008 at the Vienna Filmcasino.

Gummo is a succinct example of what you should do, if you don't have any money and want to make an unforgettable film. Solomon and Tummler are two teenage friends who kill time by sniffing glue and cycling around aimlessly in the remains of their tornado-ravaged town to shoot cats. Around them circulates a giddily bizarre gallery of characters, which deal a knock-out blow to every white trash cliché, and which unite in an uncompromising vision of the American Midwest as an anti-Bible sewer of ruin and cultural dissolution.

In his virtuous debut, Harmony Korine mixes fiction and documentary (and everything from 35mm to Polaroid and Super-8) to create a confrontative and surreal field trip into a world of violence and excess, but which also has its very own beauty and critical absurdity.

The film screens two additional times:

Husets Biograf: 10.11 at 21:00
Gloria: 11.11 at 21:45

Ridley Scott's futuristic film, Blade Runner (1982), is the ultimate example of the curated series it is included in, Design Dystopias. In 2019, humans have genetically engineered "replicants," which are essentially humans who are designed for labor and entertainment purposes. Illegal on earth, the robots live in colonies in outer-space, and if ever found on land they are hunted down and killed.

Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is a blade runner, or a hunter of replicants, who must seek out a group of replicants who have traveled to Los Angeles in search of a way to extend their lifespan. Although he hunts them to the end, the replicants ultimately end up teaching the detached Deckard important truths of humanity.

Introductory talk by Thomas Ballhausen (Film Archive Austria) and free entry.

For the next two weeks co-directors Eddy Moretti and Suroosh Alvi's first feature film documentary, Heavy Metal in Baghdad screens at Tilsiter Lichtspiele. For three years Moretti and Alvi followed Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda, documenting the group's near inconceivable rise to fame as playing heavy metal in a Muslim country seemed almost possible.

From their die-hard fanbase to the daily bombings in Baghdad, the group has two goals: staying alive and playing music. Inspired from the Latin word for one of the most dangerous black scorpions commonly found in Iraqi deserts, Acrassicauda--and the resulting film--offers insight into the daily struggles for freedom in Baghdad. Perhaps the most telling fact of all: all four band members now live in Istanbul, Turkey.

"Video Nasties", 2003 by Jodie Carey. A collection of approximately 100 Horror videos.

This morning we read in the newspaper that shooting for the Romy Schneider bio-pic has started. I guess it's pretty safe to say that this film will suck big time. With German soap opera starlet Yvonne Catterfeld in the title role as the divine Austrian actress, it is destined to be an epic failure. File under: when a tribute goes wrong. But thanks to Austrian Film Archive, you have the chance to watch Schneider's entire filmography again on the big screen. Skip the Sissi trilogy and watch her French films like Une histoire simple or the crime-thriller Max et les ferrailleurs with Michel Piccoli.