Wolfgang Ambros - Du verstehst mi ned
Music Video, AT 1984, Farbe, 6 min.
Diagonale 2017
Director: Rudi Dolezal
A surreal look at a young Vienna in the early 80s: procrastinating the night away, in trendy clothes and in full control of the codes, young people are trying to find a partner, or drugs, or just want to present themselves. Niki List's Malaria is cinematographic Pop art: The world as a chaos of signifiers has found its way into this film which manages to find a utopian potential within. At roughly the same time, Wolfgang Ambros sings at the legendary Eden Bar about a fight that breaks out every morning at the breakfast table – beneath a Pop art painting.
(Alejandro Bachmann)
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