Publication Lists – SHAME/LESS TERRITORIES

April 2026

i. Barbara Wolfram, PhD

Quality-assured publications:                                   

Cinematic Work

  • All the hours we keep [Feature Film, Director|Script+P. Wagner, Producer Jakob Serdaroglu Golden Girls Film], TorinoFilm Lab, Ekran+ Lab Warsaw, Script Lab Vienna, in development

+ Film Academy Vienna

  • Walter L. [Director & Script+P. Wagner 20 min 2025], Lemonade Film, in distribution, Diagonale 25, VIS 25, Cinema Next Tour 25, Filmtage Hof 25, IDIF Karlsruhe 26, Kas Turkey 26
  • Diamond & Narcissus – نرگس و الماس [Director|Script+N. Rezaie 8 min 2025], sixpackFilm, in distribution, Diagonale 25, EU Festival 25 Islamabad, Brunnenpassage 26
  • Dina [Director|Script+P. Wagner 15 min 2026, in distribution
  • Barricades [Director|Script+W. Joop 8 min 2025], in distribution
  • Pudding Tricolore [Director|Script+R. Jentys 8 min 2026], in post-production

Freelance

  • Entre Chien et Loup [Script|Director|Production Short Film, 7 min; IFFI Filmmaker in Residence Innsbruck January 2014]
  • Bildung/ Education [Script|Director|Production Short Film, 9 min; video&filmtage Vienna Jury Prize 2014, IFFI Filmmaker in Residence Innsbruck January 2014]

Theatrical Work

  • Declarations by Jordan Tannahill[Director, Adaption Script, Stage, Costume Volkstheater Vienna March 2018]
  • Where to be born? [Play|Director .EVOLve + Schauspielhaus Vienna with Train of Hope, ESN (Erasmus Student Network) June 2017]
  • .I think we called it family [Play|Director .EVOLve + Schauspielhaus Vienna with Train of Hope, ESN, Afghan Women Writing’s Project, June 2016]
  • .I think we called it family_Reloaded [Play|Director .EVOLve + Brunnenpassage Vienna with Train of Hope, Caritas Vienna, ESN, Afghan Women Writing’s Project December 2016]
  • Tomorrowness [Play|Director.EVOLve + Dschungel Vienna with ESN June 2015]
  • Kairos [Play|Director .EVOLve + off Theater Vienna with ESN January 2015]
  • Notes from the Underground by F. Dostojewkij [Adaption for Stage|Director Loft Theatre + Theater Kavernen 1595 with Kunsthilfe Salzburg, City/ Country Salzburg, Mozarteum Salzburg August 2014]
  • .EVOLve [Play|Director .EVOLve + theaterbrett Vienna with ESN June 2014]

Written Publications
Monograph

  • Wolfram, B. (2022). Moving The Needle. The Portrayal and Representation of Gender and Diversity in Austrian Feature Films of the years 1997-2017. Dissertation, mdw

Peer-reviewed Paper

  1. Wolfram, B. (2024). Filmische Autosoziobiographie: Formale und inhaltliche Verortung anhand des filmischen Labors „Mutter/Mütter“. In: Hiden, R. (eds) Sozioautobiographie und szenische Künste. Abhandlungen zur Literaturwissenschaft. J.B. Metzler, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-69559-3_5
  2. Wolfram, B., Wintersteiger, C. et al. (2020).Confronting Realities – First Steps. Working on Cinematic Autosociobiographies. Special Issue: Mapping Artistic Research in Film, International Journal of Film and Media Art 5, 2 (100-123); Lusófona University: Lisbon. DOI:10.24140/ijfma.v5.n2.06
  3. Wolfram, B. (under review). Ländliche Affekte: Autosoziobiografie als filmische Verhandlung von Zugehörigkeit und Widerstand. Special Issue: Autosoziobiografie, Film, Medien, tfmj – Journal for Theater, Film and Media Studies.
  4. Wolfram, B. (planned publication 2027). Filming the Social Self: Autosociobiography as Arts-Based Biographical Research Method. In: Lyudmila Nurse, Baiba Bela, Johannes Becker & Catherine Delcroix: The Routledge International Handbook of Biographical Research: History, Traditional Approaches and Innovations. Routledge International Handbooks.

Other publications

Cinematic Work

  • An Attempt/ A Trial [Script|Director|Short Movie, 6 min 2016]
  • 0-2Uhr, Dienstags/ Tuesday [Script|Director|Short Movie, 12 min 2015]
  • Videos [Script|Director|Short Movie, 10 min 2015]
  • Sommerkind/ Summerchild [Script|Director|Short Movie, 8 min 2014]
  • Wienerbrut 4.0 [Script|Director|Short Movie, 5 min; JungeBurg Burgtheater Wien Sept 2013]

Theatrical Work

  • It is getting dark, please put on a song [performative Installation in the frame of 121 Festival|Conception|Text|Director kollekTief +Bronski & Grünberg Theater Mai 2017]

Non Peer-reviewed Publications

  • Wolfram, B., Meilicke, E., Kusturica, N., Walkensteiner-Preschl, C., Wintersteiger, C., & Henrich, C. (2024).Confronting Realities Working on Cinematic Autosociobiographies(Version 1.0). University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.https://doi.org/10.21939/1PY7-2875 & Wolfram, B. (2022-2024). DAFA – Digitale Archive for Cinematic Autosociobiographies, PEEK/ FWF AR 628 Archiv
  • Wolfram, B. (2025). Ohne Klassenscham. kolik.film 43.
  • Wolfram B. & Rauch, B. (2025). Emotionen in polarisierten Klassengesellschaften – Scham und Stolz als narrative Marker affektiver Macht. Berliner Woche der Kritik (online).
  • Wolfram, B., Meilicke, E., Kusturica, N., Walkensteiner-Preschl, C., Wintersteiger, C., & Henrich, C. (2024).Confronting Realities Working on Cinematic Autosociobiographies(Version 1.0). mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.https://doi.org/10.21939/1PY7-2875
  • Wolfram, B. & Wintersteiger-Wilplinger, C. (forthcoming autumn 2025). Raum/Ver/Lust. Eine künstlerisch-wissenschaftliche Exploration zu (Klassen)-Scham mithilfe audio-visueller Mittel. In Raffael Hiden & Werner Michel (Hrsg.): Klassenübergänge. Figuren-Figurationen-Narrative. Wien: Sonderzahl.
  • Wolfram, B. & Wintersteiger, C. (2023). (Not) Entering Every Room – Exploring Autosociobiographies via liminal crossing points of social class and the emotion shame. Research Catalogue 2023; Society of Artistic Research.
    Link: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1280279/1280280

Editorial Work

  • 35th FFK Journal with AVINUS Verlag, Conference Publication of the 35th FFK – Film and Media Studies Colloquium together with Christina Wintersteiger-Wilplinger, Bianca J. Rauch, Melanie Mika, and Daniel Gönitzer (Link)

Podcast Seasons with Ned Wuascht – Science Communication Podcast

  • 2021/22 Season I – Basic Concepts of Diverse-Feminist Film Reading (Ma7)
  • 2022/23 Season II – Age, Space, and Violence in Diverse-Feminist Film Reading (Ma7)
  • 2024/25 Season III – Labor and Social Class (ÖFI-Austrian Film Institute)
  • 2025 Season IV – Basics of Diverse-Feminist Film Readings (ÖFI-Austrian Film Institute, in English)
  • 2026 Season V – tba (BMWKMS, Ma7)

Curatorial Work/ Conference Organisation

  • Film Festival: Female Tracks – living-together (Hope, Solutions for polarized societies) (06-10 March 2025) Programmkino Wels with Bianca J. Rauch ((Programm)
  • Gender Film Screening with Bianca J. Rauch, Film Academy Vienna + Admiralkino Vienna (13 March 2025)
  • Building Bridges: Work – Social Class – Politics – Film (29/30 April 2024) at Film Academy Vienna/ mdw together with Paulus Wagner (EUI Florenz) and ENS Louis Lumière Paris
  • DAFA – Digitales Archiv für filmische Autosoziobiografien, PEEK/ FWF AR 628 Archiv (2022-2024)
  • Confronting Realities. On the Intermediality of Autosociobiographical Narratives (16/17 April 2024) at Film Academy Vienna with Nina Kusturica, Elena Meilicke, Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl and Camilla Henrich
  • Film Festival: Female Tracks – Silenced Care (Work Migration, Care-Arbeit) (07-11 March 2024) Programmkino Wels with Bianca J. Rauch (Programmkino Wels: female tracks 2024)
  • Confronting Realities. Working on Cinematic Autosociobiographis I (06/07 Oct 2022) at Film Academy Vienna with Nina Kusturica, Elena Meilicke, Claudia Walkensteiner-Preschl and Christina Wintersteiger-Wilplinger
  • 35. FFK – Film- und Medienwissenschaftliches Kolloquium (31 March – 02 April 2022) at Film Academy Vienna/ mdw with Christina Wintersteiger, Bianca J. Rauch, Melanie Mika (Goethe-University Frankfurt) und Daniel Gönitzer (University of Vienna)

Publications in other media

Installations

  • Layers of Life [Co-Conception|Building|Editing cinematic-performative Installation .EVOLve + IFFF Frontale 2017]
  • 10 YEARS EaP – FLASHMOB [Co-Conception|Building|Execution flash-mob Installation + Performance Eastern Partnership Programm European Commission Brussels, BEL; 2018]