Onsite Event

A Film Festival in a Historical Setting

At a former Carthusian monastery, the winners will be declared and the filmmakers as well as experts from other areas will have the possibility to discuss their film within workshops with the audience and the festival organizers, in a relaxed and open atmosphere.

During this onsite event also all exhibitions provided in the “Mauerbach Charterhouse” on that day can be visited free of charge and there is also no entry fee for the film festival:

Parquet exhibition – “imperial halls”: Showcases the development of historic panel
parquet floors and provides insights into their construction and reparability

Stone views – “lapidarium”: A collection of stone cubes, originally from the 1873 World’s Fair, which represents a showcase of the quarries located within the monarchy at that time,
and today serves as a valuable catalogue of various decorative stones

Storie(s) of the Mauerbach Charterhouse – “monastery church”: Images and stories
from the period when the building served as a poorhouse following the dissolution of the
Mauerbach Charterhouse

Window of time – “cloister and library”: An extensive collection of historic wooden
windows illustrating the development of the box window

In-house exhibition ‘care and repair’ – “sacristy”: Artefacts from the 700-year history of the Mauerbach Charterhouse and an insight into the modern approach to historic
preservation, which is taught in the courses

Colour stories – “chapter house”: Exhibition on the development of colours and pigments
in historic preservation as well as their social and cultural significance

Silentium – “refectory”: A cycle of paintings depicting European Carthusian monasteries

Schwadron ornamental tiles – “east cloister”: A collection of historic ornamental tiles from
the turn of the century

Roman stones from Hernals – “in the north cloister and the archaeology showroom in
the cellar-vault”: An exhibition of spectacular archaeological finds

These exhibitions also brilliantly shed light on the entire history of humankind – just as this
festival aims to do, f.i., by starting in the Stone Age with earth pigments in the “colour stories”
exhibition and illustrating the use of pigments right up until the recent past, presenting
archaeological finds of the Roman period in “Roman stones from Hernals”, including the
Middle Ages in the in-house exhibition ‘care and repair’ followed by various artefacts from
the modern era within the “window of time” and “parquet” exhibition. 

 

As the location is quite close to Vienna, it is possible to use the public transport system from Vienna to a near bus station, where it is just a few minutes walk to the monastery:

From “Hütteldorf, Wien” you can take bus no. 450 to “Busbahnhof, Mauerbach”. From there, it is approximately 500 metres to the “Kartäuserkloster, 3001 Mauerbach”.

https://www.wienerlinien.at/web/wl-en

Price for the bus one way is currently € 2.20 if you already have a ticket for Vienna, or € 4.60 incl. a ticket for Vienna, but will be verified shortly before the event in 2026 again. Last bus back to Vienna currently at 23:25, but will also be verified later on. Kartause Mauerbach (Kartäuserplatz 2, 3001 Mauerbach) at Google Maps:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/S9dLzJipbErFj9Dt8

 

For the discursive exchange with a splendid possibility to gain an impression of the submissions, we specifically invite producers and directors to participate in this point of the festival on this day in person!