DIE BESTE STADT IST KEINE STADT

The Best City Is No City at All

Austria. 2020. Color. 15 min. Experimental. Vídeo.
  • Film Director: Christoph Schwarz.
  • Scriptwriter: Christoph Schwarz.
  • Cinematography: Christoph Schwarz.
  • Editing: Christoph Schwarz.
  • Sound: Matthias Peyker.
  • Producer: Christoph Schwarz.

A young man, sitting on a rusty hangar, playing his guitar. An abandoned wooden church, no longer needed, re-locating 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 '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.



Christoph Schwarz

Christoph Schwarz (Vienna, 1981) was graduated from the University of Applied Arts Vienna with a diploma in Media Arts in 2006. His projects mainly emerge out of self-involved set-ups, in which he blends fact and fiction into humorous narratives that can find their respective formal shape in performance, installations and short film, and have been shown at exhibitions and film festivals internationally.

"Thin Air" (2018) / "Stuck" (2017)