Sebastian Brameshuber

Directing

Sebastian Brameshuber

Known for

Directing

Credits

13 titles

Sebastian Brameshuber (b. 1981) studied stage and film design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and film at Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. His films are rooted in documentary practice, exploring the charged relationship between historical and personal realities through a reduced cinematic language. They have been shown and awarded at festivals including Berlinale, Viennale, Cinéma du Réel, Art of the Real, FIDMarseille, IDFA, and BFI London, among others. In 2019, the Filmarchiv Austria and Anthology Film Archives held first retrospectives of his work. He was awarded the Grand Prix at Cinéma du Réel for Movements of a Nearby Mountain in 2019 and London …

Known for

London poster
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Bobby drives back and forth between Vienna and Salzburg, giving lifts to strangers on the way, sharing conversations that drift from the mundane to the deeply personal. In this tender portrait of today’s Europe, anonymity and warmth still go hand in hand.

London

2026

Muezzin poster
NR

Documentary about a comptetition in Turkey for the best muezzin.

Muezzin

2010

And There We Are, in the Middle poster
8.0

Documentary about young people in a small town in Austria.

And There We Are, in the Middle

2014

Movements of a Nearby Mountain poster
NR

In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he pursues his lonely day-to-day activities with wondrous serenity, past, present and future begin to overlap, and memories of a lost friendship resurface against the backdrop of a mysterious promise of everlasting resources.

Movements of a Nearby Mountain

2019

In, Over & Out poster
NR

There have been countless tributes made to the Lumière Brothers´ Workers Leaving the Factory since it was first exhibited in 1895, but few have been as technically ambitious, aesthetically assaultive or conceptually compelling as Sebastian Brameshuber´s In, Over & Out.

In, Over & Out

2017

Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability poster
10.0

In a voiceover Stan Brakhage articulates his resentments about the use of computers for art production and in general. This comment is contrasted by video imagery turning more and more abstract until it bursts into a sea of square pixels. The video is an ironic illustration of Brakhage's views as these "defunct" images reveal a kind of beauty of their own.

Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability

2004

Behind the camera

London poster
NR

Bobby drives back and forth between Vienna and Salzburg, giving lifts to strangers on the way, sharing conversations that drift from the mundane to the deeply personal. In this tender portrait of today’s Europe, anonymity and warmth still go hand in hand.

London

2026

London poster
NR

Bobby drives back and forth between Vienna and Salzburg, giving lifts to strangers on the way, sharing conversations that drift from the mundane to the deeply personal. In this tender portrait of today’s Europe, anonymity and warmth still go hand in hand.

London

2026

Muezzin poster
NR

Documentary about a comptetition in Turkey for the best muezzin.

Muezzin

2010

Muezzin poster
NR

Documentary about a comptetition in Turkey for the best muezzin.

Muezzin

2010

And There We Are, in the Middle poster
8.0

Documentary about young people in a small town in Austria.

And There We Are, in the Middle

2014

And There We Are, in the Middle poster
8.0

Documentary about young people in a small town in Austria.

And There We Are, in the Middle

2014

Movements of a Nearby Mountain poster
NR

In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he pursues his lonely day-to-day activities with wondrous serenity, past, present and future begin to overlap, and memories of a lost friendship resurface against the backdrop of a mysterious promise of everlasting resources.

Movements of a Nearby Mountain

2019

Movements of a Nearby Mountain poster
NR

In a remote, abandoned industrial site near a centuries-old ore mine in the Austrian Alps, a self-taught mechanic runs a business exporting used cars to his native Nigeria. As he pursues his lonely day-to-day activities with wondrous serenity, past, present and future begin to overlap, and memories of a lost friendship resurface against the backdrop of a mysterious promise of everlasting resources.

Movements of a Nearby Mountain

2019

In, Over & Out poster
NR

There have been countless tributes made to the Lumière Brothers´ Workers Leaving the Factory since it was first exhibited in 1895, but few have been as technically ambitious, aesthetically assaultive or conceptually compelling as Sebastian Brameshuber´s In, Over & Out.

In, Over & Out

2017

In, Over & Out poster
NR

There have been countless tributes made to the Lumière Brothers´ Workers Leaving the Factory since it was first exhibited in 1895, but few have been as technically ambitious, aesthetically assaultive or conceptually compelling as Sebastian Brameshuber´s In, Over & Out.

In, Over & Out

2017

Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability poster
10.0

In a voiceover Stan Brakhage articulates his resentments about the use of computers for art production and in general. This comment is contrasted by video imagery turning more and more abstract until it bursts into a sea of square pixels. The video is an ironic illustration of Brakhage's views as these "defunct" images reveal a kind of beauty of their own.

Preserving Cultural Traditions in a Period of Instability

2004

Of Stains, Scrap & Tires poster
NR

Short documentary about people who sell cars from Europe to Africa.

Of Stains, Scrap & Tires

2014

Of Stains, Scrap & Tires poster
NR

Short documentary about people who sell cars from Europe to Africa.

Of Stains, Scrap & Tires

2014