Barbara Wolfram is a filmmaker and film scholar. Her work engages with issues of social class, labor, political polarization, and resistance, linking these themes to (auto)biographical experiences and questions of family, motherhood, and fatherhood—both in film practice and theory. Born and raised in Vienna, she studied and earned her PhD at the Film Academy Vienna and the University of Vienna. Research, teaching, and study residencies have taken her to the ENS Louis-Lumière and the EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, the HDK Valand Academy at the University of Gothenburg, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, and most recently to Harvard University.
www.barbarawolfram.com

Paulus Wagner is a sociologist and political scientist. For his doctoral dissertation, he conducted over 150 biographical interviews with manual workers in Austria and Germany to understand the connections between workplace experiences and political attitudes. In the project Building Bridges in Polarized Societies at the Film Academy Vienna, he collaborated with Barbara Wolfram to develop several short film scripts based on this material. Born in Vienna and raised in Mistelbach, Lower Austria, Paulus has pursued his academic career internationally: MA at King’s College London and EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, PhD at Sciences Po Paris, and postdoctoral fellowship at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University.
www.pauluswagner.com

Barbara Wolfram
Walter L. (AT 2025), 20 min
Diamond & Narcissus – نرگ   و الماس (AT 2025), 8 min
Barricades (AT 2025), 8 min

Paulus Wagner
Walter L. (AT 2025), 20 min