Thomas Korschil

Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

Against the background of current Austrian politics, the film reconstructs the history of the Carinthian minority conflict. The focus of this documentary is the eventful 1970s, when a young generation of Carinthia's Slovenes took up the fight for their rights laid down in Austria's State Treaty of 1955. With Haider as provincial governor, it is a fight fought until today.

An attempt to simultaneously picture the two big, contradictory myths of U.S. America: the myth of unlimited individualism and the myth of the "melting pot". All kinds of people are all in the same way, mostly alone, caught in their cars, which also remind us of similar box-like containers such as houses, offices, factories, etc.

"To move the world (and thus the mind!) with one's eyes, to put (part of) it into a box (like we do) and shake it, gently, as to bring its (the world's, the mind's) particles to life (again) [...] 
A souvenir; capturing (in vain!) time (lost), passing us by like the shadow of a fast-moving cloud." -T.K.