CLEANING & CLEANSING

AT 2024, 91min

Director / Script / Editing: Thomas Fürhapter
DOP: Judith Benedikt, Manuel Zauner, Thomas Fürhapter
Producer: Weina Zhao 

CLEANING AND CLEANSING tells of the glamor and misery of hygiene. Without resorting to interviews or explanatory off-camera commentary, it stages its subject in a way that can be experienced by the senses. In doing so, it follows an analytical approach that thematizes hygiene as an order of the „healthy“ and the „harmful“, which is reflected in institutions, architectures and production processes and regulates human behavior. The film thus raises a topic that has been central to our society since the beginning of modernity: the optimization and improvement of life, which – if pursued with too much commitment and carelessly – can quickly turn against itself.

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ZUSAMMENLEBEN

AT 2021, 90min

English title: Living Together
Director: Thomas Fürhapter
Co-Production with Mischief Films
Distribution: Filmladen
World Sales: sixpackfilm

How is the culture of Vienna communicated to migrants? The documentary 
film LIVING TOGETHER accompanies new immigrants from different countries on their first step over the threshold into a new country. What are the migrants‘ ideas about Vienna? Which information and „values“ are addressed in the integration courses and which are not?

“Entertaining, insightful, full of humor and self-irony.”
(Jury statement, Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern) 

AWARDS
· Diagonale, Festival of Austrian Film: Best Cinematography
· DOK.fest Munich: VIKTOR DOK.deutsch 
· Filmkunstfest Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: Best Documentary

FESTIVALS (Auswahl)
· Sarajevo – Int. Film Festival
· Duisburg – Duisburger Filmwoche
· München – Int. Dokumentarfilmfestival
· Wien – this human world International Human Rights Film Festival
· Kassel – Dokumentarfilm & Videofestival
· Belgrade – Free Zone Human Rights Film Festival
· Freistadt – Der Neue Heimatfilm
· Schwerin – Filmkunstfest MV
· Bjelovar – DOKU.ART Festival
· Graz – Diagonale, Festival des österreichischen Films

CREDITS
Director Thomas Fuerhapter
Script Thomas Fuerhapter
Cinematography Judith Benedikt, Thomas Fuerhapter, Klemens Koscher
Editing Dieter Pichler
Sound Andreas Hamza
Editing Thomas Fuerhapter
Sound Ines Vorreiter
Editing Philipp Mayer
Sound Design Tong Zhang, Lara Zill
Sound Mix Manuel Grandpierre
Dramaturgy Bernadette Weigel
Production Mischief Filmproduktion, Electric Shadows Laufbilderzeugungsanstalt
Executive Producer Thomas Fuerhapter, Ralph Wieser
Production Manager Susanne Berger
Supported by Filmfonds Wien, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, Zukunftsfonds Republik Österreich, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport / Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport
VFX Klaus Pamminger, Philipp Mayer

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