What happens when landscape becomes a commodity – the place to live becomes a postcard – the Alpine idyll is exported to the world as a promise of wellness? The Austrian experimental film tells the story of a fictitious climatic health resort in an undefined future. Life gives way to a preserving artificiality, consumer capitalist practices soar to unknown heights: A cable car system connects the peaks and swings the climatic spa audience in gondolas from slope to slope, ever further, ever higher.
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Followed by an audience discussion with the filmmakers
Cinema as a guests
Two institutions, whose extinction in rural regions has often been complained of, are more lively than ever under the motto CINEMA AS A GUEST and invite you on a cinematic culinary tour through the Upper Austrian foothills of the Alps from October to November. Taverns as well as cultural-gastronomic meeting places are transformed into inviting movie theaters that have more to offer than the obligatory popcorn bag. A diverse program of current Austrian and international auteur films is provided, among others, by Cultural Initiative 08/16 Gmunden. For the unique cinema experience, the traditional Wanderkino Steininger responsible from Linz.
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