Each film I make changes me in some way. When I start the picture I’m one person and by the time I finish I’m another.

Dario Argento

Fritz Aigner was born on the 5th of November 1981. He lives and works as a filmmaker in Graz, Austria. He doesn’t do Giallo-Films as the Argento-quote above may suggest, but he likes them very much 😉

As a director, writer and editor Fritz Aigner works for cinema and various TV-stations such as ORF, 3sat,…

Films – Mixed Pickles 😉 :

• „Baodo – Back to the roots?“ (TV-Documentary 2008 / Official Selection This human world 2009 – Austrian Film Festival for Human Rights)
• „Small is beautiful – Leopold Kohr“ (TV-Documentary 2010 / Winner Life Science Film Festival Prague 2011)
• „ex“ (Short Film 2012 / Official Selection Rojo Sangre Horrorfilmfestival Buenos Aires 2012, Official Selection Melbourne Underground Film Festival 2013, Official Selection Druid Underground Film Festival New York 2014)
• „The Morgenstern & Boyd Trilogy“ (Feature Film 2017 / Winner Best Picture @ First Hermetic Film Festival Venice 2019, Official Selection Sacramento Underground Film & Arts Festival 2018 California, Official Selection Straight-Jacket Guerilla Film Festival 2018 (GB), Official Selection Midnight West Fest 2020 Cheyenne, USA)
• „Lassing – Die ganze Geschichte“ (TV-Documentary 2018 2 Episodes / Spiegel TV Geschichte)
• „Der Himmel über dem Villgratental“ (TV-Documentary 2020 / Silver Trophy Deauville Green Awards 2021)
• „Chamäleons“ (Feature Documentary 2021 / Winner Best Foreign Documentary @ The Northern Virginia International Film & Music Festival 2022, Winner Best Documentary FilmArte Festival Berlin 2022, Nominee Best Picture @ International Sound & Film Music Festival 2022 in Samobor Croatia, Official Selection Sound on Screen Music Film Festival South Africa 2023)
• „Traumschlösser & Ritterburgen“ (TV-Documentary 5 seasons 2019 – 2026)
• „Meine jüdische Familie“ (TV-Documentary 2023 / Nominee – Kleine Zeitung Graz „Kopf des Jahres 2024 – Kultur“)

 

Some calmly outtakes from „Chameleons“ ;):