Tricky Women/Tricky Realities and the Sigmund Freud Museum invite you to two screenings on April 10 and May 8 dedicated to animated film and psychoanalysis.

In 2025, the Sigmund Freud Museum's program will focus on the annual theme of “Being Human”. Telling stories has always been a human ability and need. Where language reaches its limits, animation art has the potential to explore interdependencies between inner world and external perception and to uncover unconscious processes inheriting narrative structures.

The selected visual worlds deal with psychological dynamics, memories, longings and fears in a world of multiple crises that shake our “humanity” and the values associated with it. Each evening will present one or two short films, followed by a discussion with experts in psychoanalysis and film studies together with the audience.

MATTA AND MATTO

Bianca Caderas, Kerstin Zemp, 2023, CH, 10 min

In a dystopian world, physical contact between those living there is forbidden. To those who feel lonely and isolated, Matta and Matto offer a place of refuge. In the rooms of their hotel, the deepest longings for touch are fulfilled – at quite a price.

I AM HERE | IK BEN HIER

Cheyenne Goudswaard, 2023, NL, 5 minutes

Figures caught between solitude and the longing for connection, driven by the fear of oblivion. Their movements reflect a yearning to leave lasting traces, imprinted on the world, seeking intimacy and building a meaningful legacy.

Nicole Kandioler has been Assistant Professor of Media Politics at the tfm | Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna since 2020. Her areas of work include Eastern European film and media cultures as well as intersections of post-socialist and postcolonial studies, gender media studies and queer film and television historiography. Currently: Approval of the FWF project Queer Cinema Austria. Assembling LGBTIQ* viewing strategies of film and media in Austria 1906-2026.

Simone Öhlschläger studied German and Comparative Literature and completed a degree in Philosophy as well as Gender and Cultural Studies. The title of her diploma thesis is “Geben Denken - Denken Geben. On the aporia of the gift in Jacques Derrida and Jacques Lacan”. In addition to her academic training, she works as a psychotherapist in private practice and is currently a psychoanalyst in training. Her academic and professional interests include post-structuralism, postmodernism, psychoanalytic theories, philosophy of language and gender studies.

Daniela Finzi is a literary and cultural scholar. She is the research director and board member of the Sigmund Freud Foundation since 2016. She has worked as a research assistant at the Sigmund Freud Museum since 2009. Finzi is a member of the editorial board of the Vienna University Press series “Sigmund Freud's Works. Viennese Interdisciplinary Commentaries”. She has (co-)curated many exhibitions at the Sigmund Freud Museum.

The event is a cooperation of Tricky Women/Tricky Realities Animationsfilmfestival and the Sigmund Freud Museum.

Have a look at our event program.

Watch a selection of our event videos on our YouTube channel.

ANNUAL THEME 2025: BEING HUMAN