WIEN 0815
6 Episodes/ Total length: 62 minutes/ 4K / Austria 2024
Funded by the Bundesministerium Kunst, Kultur, Dienst und Sport
Starting November 1st 2024 on Joyn
"During lockdown, a street musician and an actress meet, and what begins as a love story soon branches into the interwoven narratives of complex characters, forming a heartfelt homage to the city of Vienna, to art, and to life during the pandemic."
"Wien0815" is the product of a Corona-related collaboration between Sophie Bösker (filmmaker), who deals with different film formats as well as the border between documentary and fiction, and Florian Drexler (theater director, actor and musician), who was looking for a form in the midst of the pandemic in order to be able to show his experimental and socio-political plays to an audience. The result is a semi-documentary series that provides a stage for various Viennese artists and plays with different film formats.
The film shows a love story. It tells of interpersonal encounters and outlines people's ambivalence and the hiding of their own unpleasant character traits from themselves and others.
The connections between the characters are loose, the lighting is soft, the dialogue fleeting. There is an overcast sky above everything. The silence of the lockdown weighs on the city. In an aquarium-like mood, life purrs along in 0-8-15 fashion. What extremes define the soft-toned mediocrity? How can you live as an artist? One does not know. There are no lofty illusions. Everyone muddles along. Nevertheless, a certain comfort permeates the scene. It is kept awake by the tenderness or at least the consideration in each other's interactions.
(Dominik Barta)
“Wien 0815” is a loving homage to the city of Vienna and the “completely normal” life in it.
WITH:
Mona Kospach
Florian Drexler
Johnny Mhanna
Anna Starzinger
Bernhard Rusch
Erich Ober
Arnold Wilfing
Lyra & Helene Sust
Florian Bösel
Puja Daya
Qasem Rezaie
Zabi Ibrahimi
Sefde Yilmaz
Salem Alhaji
Rishan Mustafa
Erfan Bazrafshan
Kiara Gezels
Salem Alhaji
Lutfullah Akbari
Ingeborg Drexler
Severin Haggenmüller
Noah Pfander
Georg Walter
Jan Esser
Dominik Barta
Luigi Guerrieri
Carlotta Bernabe
Matthias Kammerlander
IDEA & SCRIPT:
Florian Drexler and Sophie Bösker
DIRECTOR:
Sophie Bösker
COMPOSITION:
Florian Drexler
PRODUCTION:
Florian Drexler
Sophie Bösker
Daniela-Katrin Strobl
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:
Nepomuk Bösker
MONTAGE:
Sophie Bösker
ORIGINAL AUDIO:
Lenard Fuchs
DIRECTING AND PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE:
Katharina Steinbüchler
Lena Kerschbaummayer
SOUND EDITING:
Aaron Hader
SOUND MIXING:
David Piribauer
COLOR CORRECTION:
Color Company – Bernhard Schlick
DRAMATURGICAL CONSULTATON EDITING:
Daniela-Katrin Strobl
ANIMATION & TITLE DESIGN:
Sophie Bösker
CATERING
Ingeborg Drexler
