From a Nearby Country

Yet again, Manfred Neuwirth superbly demonstrates how to turn the seemingly familiar into an exciting visual adventure.
ray

At the Diagonale, the film was marvelled at like a thing from outer space, a mysteriously shaped object, as it were, of extra-terrestrial fascination that had dropped to the Earth.
profil

The wonderful “Aus einem nahen Land” takes the deformation and uncertainties of reality in favour of a subjective filmic perception to splendid extremes.
kino-zeit.de

Everything in “Aus einem nahen Land” is both reality and a break away from the real: Neuwirth places ostensibly familiar images of Austria in a fresh context that combines a sense of comfort with an inquiring stance.
celluloid

In combination with Christian Fennesz’ sound design, these images make for a rare and highly stimulating visual experience. It is the alienation from the everyday that allows us to recognize the familiar and still see it in an entirely different way.
falter

A piece of science fiction from the outskirts of Vienna.
Der Standard

Neuwirth achieves a breath-taking effect: he makes the passing of the present felt in the gap between image and sound.
Kurier

Tibet Revisited

“A journey full of delight in seeing and consisting of tremendous images and sounds.”
Profil

“Manfred Neuwirth undertakes another of his fascinating filmic expeditions: a profession of faith in concentration which is an invitation to reconsider perception.”
Ray

“He succeeds again in producing unforgettable moments of cinema.”
falter

“A magnificent little film“
Der Standard

The Sea only Takes about the Sea

“Manfred Neuwirth's fascinating video installation, subtly accompanied by music by Christian Fennesz, reconciles painting, technology and geometry.”
Profil

“The installation allows for very different visual experiences. From contemplative looking into the distance, accompanied by the filigree sound formations of musician Christian Fennesz, to the agile, nervous visual study, in which one never comes to the end, intoxicated by the moving play of light and form in the sea. The sea amuses itself and us with pictures.”
Der Standard

Asuma

“A contribution, in which the creativity of handicapped- and non-handicapped people overlaps, thus questioning this strict division altogether, rounds off the deeply humane video-trilogy in a ideal way”
Arbeiterzeitung

Barkhor Round

“A fascinating audiotrip to Lhasa.”
Der Standard

Tibetan Recollections

“... one witnesses a snapshot that is truly unique in domestic filmmaking in this condensed intensity”
Falter

“…a highly complex and wonderful work”
Die Presse

Pictures of Fleeting World

„… is one of the most outstanding artistic events of this years Diagonale”
Synchron - Das Filmmagazin

Wossea Mtotom – The Grass is Green in the Garden of Wiltz

“Wossea Mtotom is far more daring in it’s theme and realisation. The film-makers wanted to portray an unusual project – the communal life and collaboration of artists and handicapped people in an old Luxemburg brewery –not only through it’s unusual pictures. They also noticed that the medium can be part of the experience of communal living, and how well the pictures reflect a mutual feeling of understanding all the way through. This knowledge seems all the more important as the handicapped really do move beyond the verbal-literary realms of intellectual communication. . Because of this, it was necessary to find a verbal mode of expression for the project, beyond that of the every day normal kind of functioning and achievement.”
Medium

“... an excellent study”
EPD-Film

Memories of a Forgotten Land

“Excellent, informative Austrian documentary film.”
Der Standard

“Melancholy, penetrating documentation.”
Die Presse

“A highly interesting view right into the midst of life”
Wiener Zeitung

“An empathic, gentle film.”
Neue AZ

„A very personal and humanly presented little piece of contemporary history.“
Multimedia

About Living Loving Dying – Experiences with AIDS

“One of the most silent and most significant Austrian films of this year”
Der Standard

“... a great documentation”
Kurier

“... an essential, very human bit of film”
Wiener Zeitung

“... a moving film”
Täglich alles

“... A documentary film, whose greatest asset is caring, shown with absolute determination.”
Falter

“Intelligent and moving”
Die Presse

Manga Train

“With his sensitive awareness, Neuwirth, got hold of dream-like pictures, which in his words, he allows to clatter, make loud noises, hum, thunder and sing”
media biz

“Getting close, audio-visually, to the melancholy of a highly industrial world, put together as a musical collage, filmed in a sensual way.“
Die Presse

“... an exceptionally beautiful example of the gentle smelting together of the documentary and the directed; melancholy series of short, precise, selected journey memories, set into slow motion and thus exotic. Neuwirth somehow submerges into the depths of the pictures , by observing them keenly and affectionately at the same time.”
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Lembranças Brasileiras

“I was there, on that afternoon. It all lasted not more than three seconds, you recall. Three seconds in which the genial Austrian Manfred Neuwirth, in just one interminable minute, leads us to ecstasy again in Brazilian Memories.“
Mario Prata, Festival Mundial do Minuto

Magic Hour

“In the combination of the surround-sound-original-sounds and slow-motion pictures, he captures the personal and the every-day with a rare poetry.”
mediabiz

”In this film there are many moments of dazzling beauty”
Falter

Shigatse

“Jürg Neuenschwander and Manfred Neuwirth have avoided conveying touristic pictures. They were not interested in the surface, but in the essential character of Tibet and it’s present state. Proximity therefore plays a decisive part in Shigatse, bringing things closer.”
Bund, Bern

“The landscape – very atmospherically filmed by Manfred N – appears to swallow the symbols of the new world. It still seems possible to correct things there, which are already an integrated part of normal everyday life elsewhere. The people in Tibet still have the chance where we have failed.“
Szene, Zürich

“Wonderful images, (camera: Manfred Neuwirth) at the beginning showing something of the grandness of the country.”
Falter