TRAIN:
Regional Express is an audiovisual experience on the rail route; a trip from the past to the future. While traveling, passengers can hear the conversation of the Train, the Mountain and Traunsee Mermaid intercut by fragments of interviews with locals. Memories of humans and non-humans retell the story of the Salzkammergut. Petra Ardai created this docu-fiction narrative about how the landscape, the salt, and the industry formed the region. Which powers shaped structures that are still present? What is the place of tradition in the future? You can hop on the train in Gmunden, Ebensee, Bad Ischl, Hallstatt and Bad Aussee. The 5 excursions can be accessed via the QR code and from March 2024 via the Salzkammergut Culture Guide App.
Bring your headphones!
CINE VR:
From August 2024, a cinematographic Virtual Reality experience directed by Ella Raidel takes the audience to the future and back to the present. The Cine VR is an immersive journey to caves, mines, and landscapes around the Salzkammergut region in 360° videos. For this experience VR headsets are provided at the venues. Sander Saarmets composed the soundtrack of Regional Express for both the train and Cine VR experiences.
Interview partners:
Katharina Steiner (Salinen Austria AG), Johannes Weidinger (Geologist, Kammerhofmuseum Gmunden), Wolfgang Quatember (Historian Zeitgeschichte Museum Ebensee), Macdonald Chiemezie Nwokeji (Hello Africa! Freies Radio Salzkammergut), Jasmin Grieshofer (Österreichische Bundesforste), Silvia Dinhof Cueto and Leo Kuhn (in remembrance of their fathers), Alexander Savel (Journalist Traunspiegel), Noelia Torres de Glasser (Tourist Guide), Alexander de Goederen (Kurdirektion Buchhandlung), Ines Schiller (Mayor of Bad Ischl), Ariane Herzog (Salinen Austria AG), Guggi Spitzer, Pauline Lahnsteiner Kienesberger & Ingrid Lahnsteiner (Frauenforum Salzkammergut), Bernd Dankelmayr (Mountain Rescue Obertraun), Rikki Müllegger & Konrad Wallinger (Kino Ebensee), Gerhard Wieser (Salinen Austria AG), Shirin Abo Zraa (Spiegel der Seele, Radio Salzkammergut), Margarete Stüger (Ebensee resident), Reverend Dankfried Kirsch (Vicar of Hallstatt)
Special thanks to:
Edda Hoefer (translations), Sophie Netzer (transcription), Peter Arlt, Martin Heinzl, Georg Rachl (extras) Marie-Sophie Pfeifer, Susanna Burghardt / ÖBB, Ulrike Dirmayer, Stefanie Daubek (Immersive Art Walk)
