Happiness Machine

Twenty women animate a conversation about the future of the world.

Happiness Machine is a project of Klangforum Wien, Musik der Jahrhunderte and Amour Fou Vienna in cooperation with Tricky Women.
Funded by Cultural Affairs Department of the City of Vienna and Federal Chancellery of Austria with special funding from the German Federal Cultural Foundation and Interfaces/Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.
The commissions to Iris ter Schiphorst, Malin Bang, Eva Reiter, Carola Bauckholt and Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri are funded by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

The episode Lickalike is funded by FFHSH; the episode Suggestion of Least Resistance by The Animation Workshop, ANIDOX, The Danish Film Institute, Viborg Kommune and The Austria film archive; the episodes Bloomers and The Flounder are funded by the British Lottery through Arts Council England.

Film Festivals:

Tricky Women Animation Festival, Austria

Flatpack Festival, UK

Annecy Animation Festival, France

Sarajevo Film Festival, Bosnia and Herzegovina

World Festival of Animation, Bulgaria

In The Palace Film Festival, Bulgaria

Soundscreen Film Festival, Italy

Encounters Film Festival, UK

Manchester Animation Festival,  UK

London Animation Festival, UK

Animateka Animation Festival, Slovenia

Live-Music Events:

08.02.2019
ECLAT Festival Stuttgart | Theaterhaus/T1

04.03.2019
AugenSchein | Wien, Wiener Konzerthaus, Großer Saal

04.05.2019
Internationales Musikfest | Hamburg, Elbphilharmonie, Kleiner Saal

25.10.2019 | 18:30
Happiness Machine. 24 Stunden Glück mit dem Klangforum Wien | Vienna, Theater an der Wien

01.12.2019 | 17:00
Rainy Days Festival | Luxemburg, Philharmonie