The best city is no city at all (Teaser)

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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" ("The best city is no city at all"), Christoph Schwarz mixes multiple perspectives on Vienna's largest urban expansion area. They share a sentimental criticism of growth and a romantic refusal to progress while facing imminent ecological collapse, which seems more credible to us than any happy ending. (Daniel Bleninger)

Diagonale 2020
Vienna Shorts AUSTRIAN SHORT FILM AWARD 2020
Shortynale Klosterneuburg
Glasgow Short Film Festival

"A film about a moving 15,000-piece church and a newly built empty city where human beings can only take the form of either ghosts or masses. The singularity and peculiarity of human nature are gone forever in the notes of this building site’s soundtrack. Replacing of school children’s games are empty underground parking lots, “slow traffic” safety zones and reminiscences of holiday places on the Upper Adriatic Sea. This documentary essay poses a reasoned critique of late capitalism, depicting it with the forms of an architectural dystopia on the outskirts of Vienna, where so-called progress cancels out the past and the peculiarity of a place and its former inhabitants without any plausible reason. That said, “only when things have disappeared can they be missed.” (Jurystatement)

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