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Mozart had to deal with the problem of being an ordinary person and at the same time an extremely sensitive musician. Was it difficult to accept himself? Did he frighten himself when he realised his extraordinary talent? Was his humour helpful in accepting himself? In the search for answers to these questions, many themes can be discerned that can be symbolic and meaningful for any generation and at any time.

The starting point for the film NIGHT is the Fantasy in D minor by W. A. Mozart, perhaps the most played piano piece, at least among young music students, which inspired a cinematic narrative in which the composer's biographical approaches and musical elements of the composition were associatively transformed into a woman's nocturnal journey through a big city, played by Jenny Schily.

In 1770 Mozart lived in Bologna and passed the examination to become a member of the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna. ALL'ARIA traces his places of residence and shows Bologna as an ancient and modern city - historical places in a modern time. Taken out of the usual setting, the traditional concert halls and the classical theater, we meet Mozart's music outside, in the street, under the arcades and all'aria - in the air.

in 1775, the 19-year-old Mozart was commissioned by his employer, Prince-Archbishop Count Colloredo of Salzburg, with whom he was in permanent disagreement, to compose a piece of princely chamber music for the evening entertainment...

SCANNING DIMENSIONS opens a space of projection and light as a dialogue and flowing transition between music and video, where one of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's early pieces, KV15dd, becomes the content point of departure for the visualization and staging in space.

MOZART CONTAINED! is an interactive music experience in several containers.

The film LOST IN DIMENSIONS by pianist Róza Radnóti makes an attempt to find visually expressible events in music, aiming to give the audience an intense and complex experience by interpreting the second movement of the Piano Sonata in C major (KV 545) in an abstract, non-narrative way.

Establishing a similarity between the harmonic sequences in W. A. Mozart's Phantasia in C minor (KV 475) and the color chords of Salzburg is the starting point and program of the artistic-scientific cooperation project that brings together selected students of the University Mozarteum Salzburg and young people as well as adults of the class "Sound and Color" of the Landesmusikschule Bad Ischl.

HOW TO FIND MYSELF THROUGH MOZART: GELEBTE KUNST WITH SALZBURGER YOUTH is an artistic-visual and scientific project, which was realized in cooperation with the University of Salzburg as well as the University Clinic for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the Paracelsus Medical Private University.

In the installation Play!, the communication between different technologies repeatedly gives rise to new Mozart compositions, which are "interpreted" by an industrial robot at the grand piano.

In two open workshop phases, students from the Department of Scenography and teachers from the Mozarteum University met with employees of the Red Bull Media House to examine and explore sounds in a minor key by W. A. Mozart and the fascinating visual worlds of the Red Bull Media House film and image archive.

On March 10, 2022, project participants and interested parties met at the Spot On MozART Lounge in the Small Studio of the Mozarteum University. A cozy "come together" with films and an exhibition on the current Spot On MozART projects. We accompanied the event for you.

The project MOZART-REALTIME QUINTETT offers an audiovisual experience in which the music of W. A. Mozart is realized as a synesthetic, interactive visualization by means of computer-generated real-time graphics. With the aim of creating an active playful and at the same time creative access to the work of Mozart, Mozart's Clarinet Quintet (KV 581) was realized as an interactive fulldome environment. With the help of a touch interface, the visitors can intervene in the audiovisual composition and change it.

The Mozart in Nairobi project tells the story of imprisoned mothers and their left-behind children in Kenya in an essay film,

Accompanied by the sounds of Mozart's Violin Sonata in E minor, which lays over the smoldering conflicts like an ideal world, IDYLL tells of a family in upheaval…

Unbounded deals with the transformation process of the first movement of Mozart's Symphony in A major (KV 201) into a gradually emerging abstract painting, realized in the form of an animated film.