Breath in the Art of Winning Cinema: An Analysis of Award-Winning Short Films

By Ana Bilic

Experience the captivating world of breath in the award-winning films of the International Film Festival Cittador 2023! In my book, "Breath in the Art of Winning Cinema," I delve into a profound analysis of the outstanding cinematic motif that took center stage in Vienna on December 16 and 17, 2023.

This book provides a concise exploration

• Language: English
• Publisher: Projector Edition
• Release date: Jan 3, 2024
• ISBN: 9783903517103

Ana Bilic

As a literary and theater writer, filmmaker, theater director and linguist, her work includes novels, short stories, poems and texts in numerous literary anthologies. She started writing literature in Croatian in the 1990s, but for more than twenty years she has written mainly in German and English. Her books have been published by publishers such as Hoffmann und Campe in Hamburg, Konzor Verlag Zagreb and Hollitzer Verlag in Vienna.

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CONTENTS

I. About the Winning Films

II. BREATH

Breath as Self–Communication

„Breathe" – Lesley Pinder, 2022

Controlling the Breath

„The Breath of the Depth" – Poul Bracker, 2023

Breath in the Supporting Role

„The Beyond" – Daniel Maurer, 2021

The Artificial Breath

„Try To" – Luca Werner–Tutschku, 2021

Breath as Devotion

„Plastic Inside Me" – Desirée Jakobitsch, 2023

The Superfluous Breath

„Chlorine" – Thanos Psichogios, 2022

The Interrupted Breath

„Beethoven´s Letters" – Raouf Zaki, 2023

The Held Breath

The Discoverer of the Discoverers – C. S. Nicholson, 2022

Breath as Sound

„BUBBLES" – Meri Dishnica, 2023

The Breath of Love

„Afterimage" – Robyn MacIntosh, Serin Chun, 2023

The Mental Breath

„Joan of Arc" – Tim S Lott, 2022

The Non–Present Breath

Double Trouble – My new life with Twins – Hans Friedrich, 2022

The Lent Breath

„The 7th Night: MaoMao Revisits" – ahLoong, 2023

The Breath of Admonition

„Talking to a survivor" – Milena Olip, 2022

The Screaming Breath

„Marguerite" – Maximilian Modl, 2023

The Newly Breathed Breath

„DAS ROTOHR" – Paul Drey, 2022 

The Breath of a Child

„ADJECTS + Music for Objects" – Alexandre Dacosta, 2022

III. BREATH in All Its Facets

IV. List of Winning Films

I. About the Winning Films

On December 16 and 17, 2023, the following winning films with a running time of