Packet 5: Tossup 8

This country’s film Train Again is an homage to a director who made shorts like 10/65: (15[1])Self-Mutilation before working as a guard at Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts. In the 1990s, a director from this country remixed Hollywood films into proto-YouTube Poop shorts like Passage à l’Acte (15[1])(“pah-SAZH ah LACT”). Three women are the subjects of this country’s Paradise trilogy. This country’s Actionism (15[1])movement influenced (15[1])the director of Dream Work, (-5[1])who remixed a horror (15[1])film in the short Outer (*) Space. (10[2])A film from this country about a family who plan to move to Australia, but commit suicide instead, was its director’s first about couples (10[1])named Anna and George. Kurt Kren, Martin Arnold, and Peter Tscherkassky (“chair-KAH-skee”) are avant-garde filmmakers from this home country of a director who moved to France to make (10[1])Code Unknown and Caché (10[1])(“kah-SHAY”). For 10 points, name (10[1])this home country (-5[1])of (10[1])Michael Haneke ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Austria [or Österreich; or Republic of Austria; or Republik Österreich] (Kurt Kren’s films inspired Tscherkassky’s film Train Again. Haneke’s debut film was The Seventh Continent.)
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2025 Absolute Cinema - Canada2025-11-082100%0%0%0%136.50
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