Director: Peter Sämann
Production: TTV-Filmproduktion im Auftrag des ORF

A People’s history of the “little” French Revolution in 1871, when workers and communards took the city of Paris under their own rule as a blueprint for modern democracy. In 1976 came the highly popular rock opera version by activist music group Schmetterlinge. This condensed Brechtian TV-movie remains a delightful witness.

Television has been a part of our society for the past sixty years and its productions are also always representations of time-based discourse. We have dug three treasures of an often underrated pop culture from the depths of ORF’s television archive: an artist’s portrait that goes under your skin, then the staging of the musician as musician, a garish Neon Mix of shrill impromptu concerts and dubious fashion statements. Finally, a gem of political satire by the band Schmetterlinge.

1000 Beat Film As romping grounds for ideologies and identities, pop has become more topical again as a venue for political and social debates. “1000 Beat Film”, searches for pop motifs in Austrian film and summons a pleasurable (re)reading of its moving images – between anarchy in the pubs and hedonism in the suburban disco.