Gen SLASH

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To many, adolescence is or was a veritable horror movie. Which is why it is hardly surprising that the bleak and bizarre faces of Fantastic Film often hit a nerve, particularly with teenagers. Not only are the protagonists frequently also of a young age, but experiencing scary, eccentric and transgressive stories in the dark of a movie theater also renders possible a risk-free playing-through of one’s own worlds of fear, including the social ones.

This is why we are happy once again, in cooperation with the Austrian Film Academy and accompanied by media education experts, to be able to introduce a group of youths and young adults between the ages of 16 and 19 to the savage worlds of Fantastic Film. At the end, they will give out the Gen SLASH award to the best work out of a selection of four feature films.

Initiated together with the Austrian Film Academy, this project hopes not only to give young cinephiles the vibrant feeling of attending SLASH but also to excite them for Fantastic Film’s manifold art disciplines.

Winner 2024:

Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot)

Honourable Mention:

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Ariane Louis-Seize)

This year’s GEN SLASH competition films were:

Bookworm (Ant Timpson)
Do Not Enter (Hugo Cardozo)
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Ariane Louis-Seize)
Memoir of a Snail (Adam Elliot)