UNIVERSALOVE

Secondary school and university students as well as senior citizens are entitled to purchase one advance ticket (not on the day of the event) per event at a 20 % discount, only at Kino Šiška box office. A limited amount of discount tickets available!

Timeline

21:00 -- doors
21:15 -- kino / motion pictures & concert

There will be regular cinema showings, as well as an exclusive tour of the live version. In this case, the Austrian band Naked Lunch will perform songs they have written for the film live on stage alongside the film’s exhibition. It is a new form of choral music film, in which pop songs take on a level of narration that transforms the inner condition of the protagonists, but also their thoughts and stories, into music and lyrics.

Universalove is a global story about love. Brooklyn, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Belgrade, Marseille and Luxembourg are the locations of the interwoven episodes. Places we know, places we don’t know – full of true and made-up stories about love. Universalove made it’s debut at the Toronto International Filmfestival in 2008, and recived the Max Ophüles Award 2009 for best film. 80 minutes and six intertwined episodes filmed on location in Brooklyn, Rio De Janeiro, Tokyo, Belgrade, Marseille and Luxemburg take the basic idea of combining music and movie as equal artistic means several steps further. Universalove is complex and subtle without losing emotional clarity and unpretentiousness. Here there’s not much dialogue needed to have people speaking their minds. The often touching and hauntingly beautiful songs by Naked Lunch serve as sympathising lightning bulbs exposing inner landscapes complimented by carefully crafted pictures – and vice versa. With Universalove Thomas Woschitz and Naked Lunch excel at developing a new form of music-movie and, even more important, by doing so they share a great story with their audience.

Naked Lunch
Oliver Welter | singer, guitar; Herwig Zamernig | bass; Stefan Deisenberger | keyboards, electronics; Alex Jezdinsky | drums

Since the 1991 debut release under the German label “Big Store”, they had a number of highly appraised follow up releases in Europe and the USA, as well as stage performances in the whole of Europe, the US, South America and Russia. In the same period, all members also composed for various theatres, films and works for other artists.

Film Music:
1996 – 2004 Josef Trilogy, 2005 Until Death (TV), 2006 Earth Movements (TV)
2007 Franz Fuchs – A Patriot (TV), 2007 Love and Other Crimes.

Releases:
1991 Naked Lunch CD/LP – »Naked«, 1992 Naked Lunch CD/LP – »Balsam«, 1997 Naked Lunch CD/LP – »Superstardom«, 1999 Naked Lunch CD/LP – »Love Junkies«, 2004 Naked Lunch CD/LP – »Songs for the Exhausted«, 2004 Naked Lunch/Thomas Woschitz DVD – »Closing Time«, 2007 Naked Lunch CD/LP – »This Atom Heart of Ours«


Bio / Filmography of Thomas Woschitz

Born in Klagenfurt, Thomas Woschitz studied at the “Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia” in Rome, Italy. He directed several short films, e.g. “People’s Pockets and Bleeding Noses” (1995) and “Blindgänger - Duds” (1996) and the medium length film “Girls and Cars” (2004), which have all been shown at numerous festivals, such as Venice, Locarno and the Cannes Film Festival. He also realized experimental film installations like “Oil Film” (1994) and “Loop’s End” (2003), or the imaginative sound film “moving landscape©“ (2002). In 2005, he created together with the music band “Naked Lunch”, the music film “Closing Time”. Woschitz has also worked as a film editor on “La Capa Gira” and “Mio Cognato“, both by Alessandro Piva. After “Universalove”, he is now working on the feature film “Fools“.

Films selection:
“People’s Pockets and Bleeding Noses” – Short, 1995 (Honorable Award at the Diagonale 95)
“Blindgänger - Duds” – Short, 1996 (Int. Film Festival Venezia, Clermont Ferrand, Locarno, Cork, Montreal,Hamburg etc., Jury Award Trento Film Festival)
“La Capa Gira” - Editor/Feature film - (Donatello Award, Int. Filmfestival Berlin 2000, Nominated for the “Silver Ribbon” in Best Editing, Italy )
“The dream of fame”- Docu Short, 1999
“A little girl is dreaming of taking the veil” – Short, 2001
“Mio Cognato“ - Editor/Feature film (Int. Festival Locarno 2003)
“Girls and Cars“ – Short, 2004 (Cannes 04, Brest 04, Trieste 05)
“Josef Trilogy“ - 3 Shorts (Locarno 04)
“Closing Time “ – Music Film, 2005 (donaufestival.at 05)