Old Normal: Urban Space
The Best City Is No City At All
Austria, 2019, 15 minutes, Color, German; Turkish subtitled, Turkish closed captions
2020 Vienna Short FF; European Film Prize
Director: Christoph Schwarz
Screenplay: Christoph Schwarz
A young man, sitting on a rusty hangar, playing his guitar. An abandoned wooden church, no longer needed, relocating to the outskirts of an urban expansion area for cultural interim usage. Nursery school children in a chair circle telling each other what they are NOT doing. In his essay film Die beste Stadt ist keine Stadt, Christoph Schwarz mixes multiple perspectives on Vienna's largest urban expansion area.
Serial Parallels
Germany, Hong Kong, 2019, 9 minutes, Color, No dialogue
2020 Annecy Animation FF; Off-Limits Award Lago FF; Audience Award Vienna Short FF; Special Mention (Animation Avantgarde) 2019 San Giò Verona Video Festival; Best Editing
Director: Max Hattler
Cinematography: Max Hattler, Iresa Cho, Zhang Riwen
Animation: Zhang Riwen, Iresa Cho
Editing: Max Hattler
Production: Relentless Melt
This experimental animation reimagines the signature architecture of horizon-eclipsing housing estates of Hong Kong as parallel rows of film strips: Serial Parallels.