Virgil Widrich

Virgil Widrich, born 1967 in Salzburg, has worked on numerous films and multimedia productions. His first feature film for cinema Heller als der Mond ("Brighter than the Moon," 2000) received several awards and his short film Copy Shop won 35 international awards and was nominated for an Academy Award. His short Fast Film won 36 international awards, has to date been shown at 285 festivals, and in 2006 was included in the list of the 100 most important short films of the past 100 years by 30...See more

Virgil Widrich, born 1967 in Salzburg, has worked on numerous films and multimedia productions. His first feature film for cinema Heller als der Mond ("Brighter than the Moon," 2000) received several awards and his short film Copy Shop won 35 international awards and was nominated for an Academy Award. His short Fast Film won 36 international awards, has to date been shown at 285 festivals, and in 2006 was included in the list of the 100 most important short films of the past 100 years by 30 leading film critics at the Annecy Animation Festival. From 2007 to 2010, he was a university professor of digital art at theUniversity of the Applied Arts Vienna, since 2010, he has been leading the master programme Art & Science at the same university. See less