B wie Bartleby
Feature Film, AT 2025, DCP, 72 min, OmeUIn her film loosely woven with a firm hand, Summereder gets to the bottom of the now proverbial “I would prefer not to” of Herman Melville’s iconic fictional holdout Bartleby. She brings the existential question that the scrivener’s negation poses for us into the echo chamber of contemporary society; and clearly audible is the “yes” to a free life embedded in this question. But in a performance-driven society—Bartleby’s, our own—it is a life for which there’s no place.
Director: Angela Summereder
Script: Angela Summereder
Cast: Benedikt Zulauf, Beatrice Frey, Maxi Blaha, Anna Mendelssohn, Alex Deutinger, Florian Tröbinger, Leopold von Verschuer, Kevin Dooley, Rosalie Christa Sommersguter, Sarah Belar u.a.
Camera: Antonia de la Luz Kašik
Editor: Sebastian Schreiner
Location Sound: Daniel Hasibar
Music: Wolf-Maximilian Liebich
Additional Credits: Dramaturgische Beratung: Claus Philipp
Producers: Daniela Praher
Production: Praherfilm
World Sales: sixpackfilm
Distribution in Austria: Filmgarten
Funded by: BMWKMS – Kunst und Kultur
ÖFI+
Stadt Wien MA 7
Land Oberösterreich Kultur
Land Niederösterreich Kultur
World Premiere: DocLisboa 2025
Austrian Premiere: Viennale 2025
Kinostart: 09.01.2026
Production format: analog - 16mm
Script: Angela Summereder
Cast: Benedikt Zulauf, Beatrice Frey, Maxi Blaha, Anna Mendelssohn, Alex Deutinger, Florian Tröbinger, Leopold von Verschuer, Kevin Dooley, Rosalie Christa Sommersguter, Sarah Belar u.a.
Camera: Antonia de la Luz Kašik
Editor: Sebastian Schreiner
Location Sound: Daniel Hasibar
Music: Wolf-Maximilian Liebich
Additional Credits: Dramaturgische Beratung: Claus Philipp
Producers: Daniela Praher
Production: Praherfilm
World Sales: sixpackfilm
Distribution in Austria: Filmgarten
Funded by: BMWKMS – Kunst und Kultur
ÖFI+
Stadt Wien MA 7
Land Oberösterreich Kultur
Land Niederösterreich Kultur
World Premiere: DocLisboa 2025
Austrian Premiere: Viennale 2025
Kinostart: 09.01.2026
Production format: analog - 16mm
