FILM PRODUCTION
VIVE LA DOK develops and produces documentaries, documentary series and web projects and co-produces with international partners: for television, for cinema and for digital platforms.
VIVE LA DOK relies on an experienced network of authors, directors and editors as well as on solid international partnerships.
THE ESCAPES OF H. MATISSE - In Production 2024
THE ESCAPES OF H. MATISSE
A film by Mathias Frick
52 min. - In co-production with ZDF/arte
Henri Matisse is one of the most famous artists of classical modernism. His groundbreaking work had a significant influence on his time and later generations of artists. By liberating color from the motif and through the simplification of form, he redefined painting and brought an unprecedented lightness to art. Matisse was also an innovator in sculpture and developed an unmistakable interplay of painting, drawing and sculpture in his late paper cuts. The film sets out to trace the escapes of H. Matisse, who used his art to escape the difficult times of the 20th century.
SYSTEMSPRINGER (WT) - In Production 2024
SYSTEMSPRINGER (WT)
A film by Melanie Lischker
90 min. - In co-production with 3sat
Project development funded by BKM
Systemspringer (AT) follows a youth welfare facility in Germany in a long-term observation and delves into a microcosm in which the pressing social issues of our time are negotiated. In the idyllic setting of a Nordic coastal region, the stories of supposedly "maladjusted" children and adolescents are woven into a web of complex family problems that seem to bubble beneath the surface of everyday normality and become visible in the film.
KLIMA, KRISE, KUNST (AT) – 2024
KLIMA, KRISE, KUNST (AT)
A film by Mathias Frick
52 min. - In co-production with ZDF/arte and NAVIGATOR Film/ Austria
CLIMATE, CRISIS, ART is a cinematic survey of the current contemporary artistic engagement with climate change and its consequences. Featuring artists and experts from all over the world, the film delves into contemporary international artistic works on the subject and tells of the different positions that intenational artists from various cultural contexts take on the greatest crisis of our time: Be it in their works, in the examination of their own ecological footprint as part of the international art world, or in their own critical positioning between powerlessness, protest, activism or the creation of utopias for an uncertain future.
ABSTRACT AND RADICAL
ABSTRACT AND RADICAL - Mondrian´s Legacy
A film by Mathias Frick
52 min. - In co-production with NDR/arte
Mondrian's supposedly simple compositions of initially black lines, coloured squares and rectangles on a white, light blue or grey background have revolutionized the art world and changed our view of pictorial reality forever. Countless artists around the world continue to explore Mondrian's main neoplastic work to this day: in fashion, advertising, architecture, design and, above all, in art itself - making him the most quoted and most diverse artist of the 20th century.
ODE TO THE SUN - 2022
ODE TO THE SUN - An Art History
A film by Mathias Frick
52 min. - In co-production with ZDF/arte
The sun is one of the most powerful and widespread symbols that define our humanity. It is a spiritual and physical power, it embodies power, creation and destruction.
With selected artistic works from all over the world, the film approaches the subject in a special way and embarks on a journey into the history of art, culture, time and technology and tells of our relationship to the blazing star over time.
PETRO-MELANCHOLIE - 2021
PETRO-MELANCHOLIE - The Oil Age in the Mirror of Art
A film by Mathias Frick
52 min. - In co.production with NAVIGATOR Film/ Autria
Supported by VAM and the Filmfonds Austria.
Distributed by NEWDOCS
No other substance has shaped the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century as much as oil. Now, the oil age is coming to an end and our departure from this fossil fuel and its entire product range is gradually taking shape. And only now, we are becoming aware of our dependence on this substance.
Petroleum has become a black mirror of the last 150 years of human history.
In dialogue with the two petroleum experts and cultural scientists Benjamin Steininger and Alexander Klose, the film embarks on a cinematic journey back to the petro-modern era, the age of oil, and uses artworks from different times and regions of the world to tell us how deeply and naturally our lives are permeated by the cycles of oil.
