"Shapeshifter", 11.02 Min., November 2023

music video, experimental

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus,

producer: Dominik Fuss

composer: Christof Ressi

music, improvisation: Dominik Fuss, Martin Siewert

cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber

anmation: Melanie Hollaus

"Trainwreck", 01:25 Min., November 2023

music video, experimental

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus,

producer, composer: Dominik Fuss

music, improvisation: Dominik Fuss, Martin Siewert

cinematographers: Christoph Lammerhuber, Melanie Hollaus

"KAMU", 24:24 Min., July 2023

city soundscapes, music, experimental

A working day comes to an end, people rush to the tram. Nothing unusual. Or is it? A table tennis game without players. A flautist in a dark underpass, fighting against the traffic noise. Images freeze, the music demands our full attention. But then the image takes over and assures us that everything was just an illusion.

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus; cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber

producer: Daniel Riegler/ Studio Dan; music performed by: Studio Dan

sound recordings: Joseph Nikolussi; mastering: Werner Angerer

"Xenakis Maschine", 10 Minutes, March 2023

short documentary on a music project

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus; cinematographers: Christoph Lammerhuber, Melanie Hollaus

produced by Daniel Riegler/ Studio Dan; music performed by Studio Dan

composer: Iannis Xenakis/ interpreted by: Christoph Ressi; idea: Thomas Frey

conductd by Xizi Wang

"NACH SARAJEVO - U SARAJEVO", 8 Min., November 2022

experimental shortfilm, animation and found footage

directors: Melanie Hollaus, Elena Messner; writers: Elena Messner, Melanie Hollaus; animation: Sebastian Konzett; cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber; music: Daniel Riegler; voices: Zdravka Pervan, Goran Lazičić, Sanjin Sović

"HAII at Belvedere 21", 20 Min. July 2022

dokumentary on several performancesof the youg artits from the Academy of fine Arts, Vienna/ Performance - curated by Carola Dertnig, Katarina Csanyiova

"UKRAINE SOLIDARITÄTSAKTION", 3 Min., March 2022

together with Damaris Richerts an Ensemble Ultreia

composer: Vally Weigl, performed by Ensemble Ultreia

cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber

performers: Jolanda Boubela, Cybèle Dimopoulos, Paula Hannich, Camila Solano, Ruiz, Kerstin Saget, Selma Medjeber, Damaris Richerts, Roland Boubela

"VISIONS - Who was Vally Weigl", 50 Min., February 2022

directed, edited by: Melanie Hollaus

performed by: Ensemble Ultreia

produced and arranged by Damaris Richerts

conductor: Hannah Eisendle

cinematographer: Christoph Lemmerhuber

experimental documentary on the Austrian composer Vally Weigl, who emmigrated in 1938 to New York.

"RUINS", 39 Min., 2021

experimental music film

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus

produced by Daniel Riegler/ Studio Dan

cinematographers: Christoph Lammerhuber, Melanie Hollaus

Humanity has always been caught between the absurdity of the world and a desire for meaningful action. People strive to create, to conceive, to build, to attain greater heights. In the everlasting search for novelty, however, humans are in a permanent cycle of construction and deconstruction. Nothing lasts forever, very little survives even for a few generations (and such things are referred to as “timeless”). Most progress is exposed soon enough as regress, as debacle, as an opening for destruction. Modern structures, monuments, works of art—and, in the end, humanity itself—declines, disappears, is destroyed.

"Aufbruch zum Planeten Globokar", 12 Min., 2021

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus

produced and performed by Studio Dan/ Daniel Riegler

cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber

on behalf of Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

"4 MINUS 1", 72 Min., 2021

experimental Fiction Film

Loud bomb sirens howl throughout the Austrian city of Innsbruck. Seconds later, the lives of four people will dramatically change forever.

In the near future, the European Union has fallen apart and countries all over the continent are plagued by economic conflicts and civil wars. Solidarity and harmony seem like words from a distant past. Everyone is at each other’s throats, self-interest reigns over everything.

cast: Katarina Csanyiova, Carmen Gratl, Lisa Hörtnagl, Mario Karl Rauth (and others)

director, editor, producer: Melanie Hollaus; cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber; writers: Christoph Lammerhuber, Melanie Hollaus; sound and sound design: Sergey Martynyuk; improvisation/ violin: Sophia Goidinger-Koch; mastering: Manuel Grandpierre, Sergey Martynyuk

"STATION on stage", 5 videos, May/June 2021

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus

cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber

curated by Steffi Alte and Simone Bader. 5 videos on 5 performances. A project by the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

performers: Simone Bader, Katarina Csanyiova, Rainer Egger, Franzi Helmreich, Andreas Pronegg

"FEMENINE" (May 2021), composed by Julius Eastman; for Studio Dan and choreographer and dancer Eva-Maria Schaller

"Kessel", 10 Min., July 2021

music by schtum

shot and edited by Melanie Hollaus

"ZEN", 8 Min., 2020

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus, cineamatographer: Christoph Lammerhuber

produced by strings&noise (Sophia Goidinger-Koch, Maiken Beer)

on behalf of Austrian Cultural Forum NYC

"MS Valentina", 80 Min., 2019

documentary

The cargo ship MS Valentina covers 1640 kilometers on its route from Austria to Bulgaria. The River as an „European Road“ is full of opposites and differences.

A film about the day to day life on board the ship of a Romanian family.

A film about a natural area which always has been overmolded and destructed in a brute way.

A film that shows Europe’s economic and political diremption: From the prosperous industrial locations of the countries in the west to the abandoned industrial areas of the Balkan, the ruins of progress.

director, editor, producer: Melanie Hollaus; idea: Tina Mott, Melanie Hollaus; cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber; writers: Christoph Lammerhuber, Melanie Hollaus; sound and sound design: Sergey Martynyuk; narrator: Katarina Csanyiova; trumpet: Stefan Prager; with Ticu Bejan, Valentina Bejan, Alex Cacu

"RISSE", 74 Minutes, 2019

Documentary

In 1939 Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini agree on the so-called "return migration" of the German- and Ladin-speaking population of South Tyrol. These ethnic groups have the possibility between emigration to National Socialist Germany or oppression by fascist Italy. More than 75,000 people emigrate to the German Reich. From 1940, 22 South Tyrolean settlements are built in today's Tyrol. About 60 percent of the apartments in the South Tyrolean settlements are given to South Tyrolean resettlers.

director, editor, producer (together with Tony Bacak): Melanie Hollaus; cinematographers: Christoph Lammerhuber, Melanie Hollaus, Antonius Bacak; writers: Andrea Sommerauer, Christoph Lammerhuber; research: Andrea Sommerauer; music: Lissie Rettenwander; sound design: Sergey Martynyuk; narrator: Rainer Egger

"Schlachthofblock", 71 Min., 2018

The slaughterhouse block was built in 1910 for the employees of the municipal slaughterhouse. As the oldest social housing project in Innsbruck, it was extended in the early 1920s to form an enclosed residential courtyard. But more than the history of the building, it is the people, with their very different experiences and fates, who have shaped the so called slaughterhouse block.

director: Melanie Hollaus; producers: Melanie Hollaus, Tony Bacak; cinematographers: Tony Bacak, Christoph Lammerhuber; dog-cam: Pasta; editors: Tony Bacak, Melanie Hollaus; music: The venture five, Melanie Hollaus

"VERBAUT", 40 Min., 2018

Documentary

Still during the First World War, workers began to cultivate the land around the cities and industrial sites, cultivate vegetables and breed small animals. In remote areas, on the outskirts of Vienna, on shut down railways and other wasteland, land is illegally taken possession of. In addition to dealing with the historical development of the settlements from the turn of the century to the present day, the focus is on the "wild", the "informal".

director, editor: Melanie Hollaus; producers: Andre Krammer, Friedrich Hauer, Melanie Hollaus; cinematographer: Christoph Lammerhuber; writer: Manfred Schenekl; research: Andre Krammer, Friedrich Hauer, Melanie Hollaus; narrator: Walter Ludwig

short video portraits; 2010 - 2018

During several Film Festivals in Innsbruck / IFFI - short portraits on the guests of honour were developed for the so-called IFFI-roll. Among them:

Fernando Birri, Argentine film maker and theorist. He was considered by many to be the father of the new Latin American cinema.

Jeanine Meerapfel, a German-Argentine film director, journalist and screenwriter who grew up in Argentinia as the daughter of german-jewish immigrants

Ninetto Davoli, an Italian actor who became known through his roles in several of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films

Želimir Žilnik, a Serbian film director best known as one of the major figures of the Yugoslav Black Wave film movement of the 1960s and 1970s.

 "Images of metamorphosis", 70 Min., 2017

Doku-Fiction

A house for the homeless was built in Vienna by the “Neunerhaus Association”. The construction and the theme of homelessness gave cause to think about change and metamorphosis. A film about struggle and love, about work, art, and death came into being.

director, editor, producer: Melanie Hollaus; cinematographers: Christoph Lammerhuber, Melanie Hollaus; sound/ music: Zeynep Sarikartal; cast: Sissi Wunder, Martin Merkl, Vio Wolf, Josef Szeiler, and others

 "Stalingrad - Stories of an Innsbruck settlement", 60 Min., 2015

Documentary

From the late 1920's on, a settlement was built south of the Innsbruck Conrad barracks, that has been unofficialy called "Stalingrad". When the National Socialists came to power, the last barracks in this territory were demolished and the remaining apartments in the settlement were completed. The area was an experimental field for social housing in which new house typologies and new materials were tried out. In contrast to the more "sophisticated" social housing, the apartment blocks were primarily intended for poorer sections of the population, barrack dwellers and war returnees. The reputation of the notorious settlement was never particularly good on the outside, but internally there was talk of neighbourly help and close cohesion among each other. Most of the "StalingradlerInnen" felt very comfortable in their apartments and are still proud of the settlement today.

director: Melanie Hollaus; producers: Melanie Hollaus, Tony Bacak; cinematographer: Tony Bacak; editors: Tony Bacak, Melanie Hollaus; music: Eva-Maria Scheiber

„hernalser, der stein denkt mordet liebt“, 70 Min., 2014

Doku-Fiction, Experimental

"cinema to me is a great, secret, greedy and childlike treat. in the movies one believes in ghosts. outside we believe in the market."

director, editor, producer: Melanie Hollaus

cinematographers: Christoph Lammerhuber, Melanie Hollaus

sound, music: Zeynep Sarikartal; cast: Katarina Csanyiova, Andreas Pronegg, Julia Kronenberg, Martin Merkl, Sebastian Brunner, Jeff Ricketts, Lisa Posch, Michael Herzog, Katharina Hölzl, Carolin Riedelsberger, and others

 "mirror_grid.passage" (designed by Gerold Tagwerker), 20 seconds, 2013

winner film: „20 seconds for art“ KÖR / Infoscreen

"Austrian Airlines Verwaltungsgebäude" 01:43 Min., 2012

The corporate headquarters of Austrian Airlines in Oberlaa (Vienna), a post-war Viennese building from the 1970's (architect Georg Lippert), was demolished in a "night and fog action". The monument office showed little interest in saving the "building of international importance" (quote: Jan Tabor).

director, editor, cinematographer: Melanie Hollaus; inspired by: Gerold Tagwerker

"Bocksiedlung – Eine filmische Spurensuche", 43 Min.; 2012

Documentary

Today the former "Bocksiedlung" of the Innsbruck district of Reichenau, eighty years after its foundation, is almost forgotten. The inhabitants had a bad reputation, they were considered as beggars, crooks and rogues, being wild and often in conflict with the law. They renounced comfort, social security and social prestige in favour of a largely self-determined life.

director, editor, producer:, cinematographer Melanie Hollaus

"New Kaisertal City", 33 Min., 2008

Docu-Fiction

Until spring 2008, the Kaisertal was the last inhabited valley in the Tyrolean Alps that had no road to the outside world. The 30 inhabitants had to walk over 300 wooden stairs to get into or out of the valley. In 2008, construction work was completed on a tunnel linking the valley to Tyrol in terms of infrastructure.

The history of NEW KAISERTAL CITY begins with the opening of the tunnel, thinks ahead and understands it as a social and cultural opening. The narrative is a political commentary on the situation of migrants in Tyrol.

director, writer: Melaie Hollaus; producers: brennweit medienproduktion, Melanie Hollaus; cinematographer, editor: Valentin Sysel; sound: Stefan Zingl.