BERLIN INDIE AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST 07/2026
CINE PARIS FILM FESTIVAL: WINNER BEST ARTIST’S FILM 06/2026
NEW ORLEANS INTERNATIONAL FILM AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST 06/2026:
screening dates to be announced
FRAMES OF NEWYORK FILM FESTIVAL: SEMI-FINALIST 2026:
screening dates to be announced
PORTLAND MOVIEMAKERS AWARDS: SEMI-FINALIST SPRING EDITION 2026
POWER24 INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: HONORABLE MENTION 2026
NEW YORK INDEPENDENT CINEMA AWARDS: OFFICIAL CONSIDERATION 2026
SWEDEN FILM AWARDS: FINALIST AUGUST 2025
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES researches personal mechanisms of mystification existing as a result of ignorance or perfidious violence in society.
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short arthouse | full hd | 00:11:58:24 | 2014
featuring susanne gschwendtner / florentin groll / tina muliar
text tina muliar / alexandra reill / bernadette stummer
camera / video material
georg eisnecker / sascha osaka / alexandra reill / prelinger archives
[live] light design georg eisnecker / peter koger
[live] video editing peter koger / nikita lauth / alexandra reill
[live] audio composition arthur denisson / eargazm
concept | directed by alexandra reill
inspired by claude cahun | vera chytilová | peter greenaway | ted hughes | marcel moore | sylvia plath | patti smith | andrei tarkowski | elsa triolet | assia wevill | unica zürn
production kanonmedia | vienna 2013 / 2014
The lack of empathy and coldness between humans become the starting point for reflections on the relevance of the moment of cutting or stepping through the mirror – an act which is repeated until the deceptive self-image bursts and the perspective of collective reality perceived from beyond individual disposition emerges; an act which is repeated until the step through the mirror is done and a heart can open …
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES supported by
our thxs go to
— commission of culture 1070 vienna
— department of culture of the city of vienna
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES awarded by
— berlin indie awards / be / d / 07/26 – semi-finalist
— cine paris film festival / pr / f / 06/26 – winner best artist’s film
— new orleans international film awards / no / us / 06/26 – semi-finalist
— frames of newyork film festival / nyc / us / 26 – semi-finalist
— portland moviemakers awards / pix / us / spring edition 26 – semi-finalist
— power24 international film festival / durban / za / 26 – honorable mention
— new york independent cinema awards / nyc / us / 26 – official consideration
— sweden film awards / se / 08/25 – finalist
STRANGE FLOWERS SPLASH or ONLY CATS HAVE NINE LIVES screenings at
— new orleans international film awards 06/26 / no / us / 26 – semi-finalist
— frames of newyork film festival / nyc / us / 26 – semi-finalist
— @take this playground / take festival / alte post / vie / a / 17
— group exhibition opera publica / künstlerhaus wien / vie / a / 16
— espresso / vie / a / 14
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— actioner.de / d / 14
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— kulturserver / berlin / de / 13
— wherevent / bordeaux / f / 13
— netbehaviour / lon / uk / 13
— furtherfield / lon / uk / 13
— classic.rhizome / nyc / us / 13