Private Project

AUTOAGGRESSION

AUTOAGGRESSION is a autobiographical shortfilm about bugchasing, the intentional self infection with HIV. In the work author and director Martin Willibald Meisl deals with his memories and tries to explore his own motivations. - When did the tendency towards self-destructive behavior arise and which ones can be seen? For that he works with reenactments of artworks such as photos by Joel-Peter Witkin or Michaelangelo’s Pietá.

A look at the later consequences of the decision is given. Discrimination, side effects of the therapy and the feelings towards the fresh infection. There is a clear change in his sexuality, new positions taken.

  • Martin Willibald Meisl
    Producer, Writer, (Post-) Production
  • Martin Willibald Meisl
    Director
    Director
  • Daria Vybornova
    Director
    Assistant Director
  • Martin Willibald Meisl
    Key Cast
  • Jamal Phoenix
    Key Cast
  • Gellert Gerson Butter
    Key Cast
  • Sebastian Gangl
    Camera
    Director of Photography
  • Rosa Winkler
    Camera
    Assistent
  • Stefan Viakowsky
    Music
    Production & Mixing
  • Loud On Street
    Music
    Techno Song Production
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    AUTOAGGRESSION
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Student
  • Genres:
    Documentary, Drama, Artfilm
  • Runtime:
    27 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    January 20, 2022
  • Production Budget:
    2,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Country of Filming:
    Austria
  • Language:
    German
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    Yes - Universität für angewandte Kunst, Vienna
  • Porn Film Festival
    Vienna
    Austria
    April 21, 2022
    Austrian Premiere
    Official Selection, Austrian Short Film Nominee, WINNER: BEST AUSTRIAN SHORT
  • Hacker Porn Film Fest
    Rome
    May 14, 2022
    Italy Premiere
    Official Selection, Best Documentary Nominee, SPECIAL MENTION
  • Documentary Porn Shorts
    Vienna
    Austria
    May 26, 2022
    by Porn Film Festival Vienna
  • Improper Walls
    Vienna
    Austria
    June 9, 2022
    IMPROPER EXPERIENCE: Short film screening "AUTOAGGRESSION" by Martin Willibald Meisl
  • Post Porn Film Festival
    Warsaw
    Poland
    Poland Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Randfilm Festival
    Kassel
    Germany
    September 17, 2022
    Germany Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Athens Porn Film Festival
    Athens
    Greece
    October 1, 2022
    Greece Premiere
    Official Selection, Nominated for International Factual Short, WINNER: BEST FACTUAL SHORT
Distribution Information
  • Limited Zine-DVD Box
    Sales Agent
    Country: Austria
    Rights: Video / Disc
  • Arthouse Vienna
    Distributor
    Country: Austria
    Rights: Video on Demand
Director Biography - Martin Willibald Meisl, Daria Vybornova

Martin Willibald Meisl is a Vienna / Austria based artist. He works mostly in an autobiographical context, especially inner-psychological films. Further - desires, sexuality and reflecting on own emotions and triggers. For this he is using elements as dance, singing and shock to get the viewer into discomfort - to create a particular reality. Currently he is studying Stage Design in the class of Bernhard Kleber at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

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Director Statement

PORN FILM FESTIVAL VIENNA 2002
JURY STATEMENT
„The jury did not have it easy; the Austrian Shorts were very unique and diverse. We have chosen a film that is not only very honest and authentic, a film that is not easy to swallow, but sometimes this is exactly what film and porn needs: to change the understanding that porn can be so diverse and highlight so much emotion. The winner of the category “Best Austrian Shorts” is: “AUTOAGGRESSION” by Martin Willibald Meisl, Daria Vybornova.”
Jury: Yavuz Kurtulmus, Jasmin Hagendorfer & Adrineh Simonian

HACKER PORN FILM FESTIVAL
SPECIAL MENTION
"Here, too, the private meets the political and allows us to participate unabashedly in pain, courage and confronts a subject that is still covered with shame in many places. Hands up!"
Jury: Yavuz Kurtulmus, Jasmin Hagendorfer, Nino Giordano