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Yes, I'll be telling my own story

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but where to begin?

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In the first cut

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the main character is going it alone

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bracing himself for a big adventure

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I wouldn't have minded

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just letting the first minute pass without any action.

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The audience settles in

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to being bombarded with 90 minutes of non-stop talking

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while the Lower Austrian Film Funding agency

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is pleased to see the country already in the spotlight

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Seriously?

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However, Judith, my TV-editor

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urges me to reconsider

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The first minute is decisive, she says

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it'll determine who's actually going to watch this film to the end

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And what better beginning than a character

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whose life has reached a complete dead-end?

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He dies, or falls ill

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But I am protagonist!

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The ultimate crisis?

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My 40th birthday

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I need two attempts to buy
wine for the party

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Or there's nothing left on the card - maybe that's it?

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I need to go back home again

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to borrow money off my daughter

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The thought haunts me all evening:

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40 years old

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and too poor for good wine.

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Well, that thing with the aunt - I still don't get it.

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My sample audience, assembled on the playground

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approves to start off with my economic woes

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If you don't know how to sustain yourself...

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There should be a plan behind it

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But robbing a piggy-bank for my 40th birthday?

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That's hardly believable

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the timing is too good

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Happy birthday to you!

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And, yeah, it also so happens

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that I just staged this party for my camera.

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I've repeatedly looted my daughter's saving accounts

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and removed far larger sums

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Gift voucher for Mexico

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Maybe it's better to begin with complete honesty:

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Dear Christoph!

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my name is Christoph Schwarz

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and as you can see I'm clearly such a VIP

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that I regularly require new press photos

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I'm taking the glasses off

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it looks more handsome

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I've spent the past years shooting self-obsessed short films.

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They didn't earn me much money

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but my parents

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academic background

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always supported me generously.

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I'm blessed with a basic financial self-confidence

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which I pass onto my children

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though all those riding lessons

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laptops and sailing permits

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are also paid by my parents

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Of course that's a video

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Which brings me right back to the subject of money.

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the starting point of this story

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is my annual dinner with Judith.

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We were together once, for one summer

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Difficult in any case...

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Judith worked for ORF3 cultural TV

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and always ensured I got my share of film comissions

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Now she's moved to documentary

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it's exhausting...

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We mainly talk about our kids

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As ever, Judith saves the biggest news for the end:

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A one-year self-experiment, or something like that?

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ORF “Striking Years”

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Her new TV-format: “Striking Years"

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they are still looking for a striking project

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related to climate change

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Saving the planet

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hasn't that always been my thing

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at least in theory?

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What's the age cut for

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up-and-coming in ORF TV?

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Until 50?

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Until 50?!

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Judith has put her finger on a sore spot:

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so far, all my actions against climate change

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were mostly just symbolic

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For example, documenting a dried-up lake

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near the hungarian border, together with Franz

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I film his kids sliding into a dystopian future

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but to get there

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we actually borrowed a SUV

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Or...

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I made a point of documenting every year

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of my daughter's young life

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with a brand-new camera;

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but what if I had made a point of taking

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to the streets and protesting against climate change?

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No!

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So far, my smug, vegetarian, car-free life

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always seemed enough

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when our planet finally does collapse

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at least it won't be entierly my fault

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And my wife Michaela?

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Since many years, she's been dreaming

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of our own house in the countryside

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I'm so happy we're talking

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because we have no clue!

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On our weekends, we visit friends in their country houses

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Hey, is there even a men's and women's toilet?

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and imagine destilling Schnaps and growing veggies

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just like my great cousin Urban

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That plum is two years old?

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And how do you heat? And that's the alcohol?

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But the real-estate market is out of control

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and in any case: I have no money

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The carrots look pretty good to me!

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Are those carrots?

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They've seeded themselves?

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I'm way more tempted by Judith's offer

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to go on a climate strike, as a self-experiment.

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In Summer 2020, the City of Vienna is campaigning

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"If we all chip in, the climate will win"

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Oh come on!

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Clearly, our politicians are bankrupt

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they just reframe climate change as a private problem

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Okay, it's a stupid slogan:

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"Get off the gas, get onto your bike"

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We're even invited to submit our own "good deeds"

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Blockade, not building brigade, that's as good as it gets!

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so I ask my photographer friend Florian to lend me a hand.

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Wouldn't it be great

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if we could force the City of Vienna

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to officially recognize street blockades as a "good deed"

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for the world's climate?

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And laugh now! Or be confident!

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I'm not really convinced by my activist posturing

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I think yours is better!

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but Judith is really impressed.

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However, we still need to talk shop

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before I can start saving the planet,

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budget is 15.000€ for the director

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90.000€ for production!

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I keep cool

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but actually I'm vibrating

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I've never had so much money on my hands

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climate activism isn't that expensive anyway!

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and it's just for a little bit of climate activism.

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Why?

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All you need is your body and courage!

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I'd really like to have you on board

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That looks really huge!

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The next weekend

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Michi and I go hiking in the remote "Waldviertel" region.

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We see a house for sale.

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I'm on a hike with my husband

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and I just saw your sign, for sale

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The agent arrives within 20 minutes.

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He'll be putting the house online in the next days, for 90.000 euros.

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Bedroom, that's the old part...

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Hold on, 90.000€

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I tell myself

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that's exactly what I could cover with the film budget

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But there, that does look quite nice

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Michi falls in love with this little old Granny-house

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I can see myself in the shade of the apple trees

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writing film scripts about the climate crisis

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I'm already 100% in

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you still want to think about it, or?

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Karl-Heinz, the agent, senses we're interested

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and gives us the weekend to make a decision.

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So nice how the sun comes in here!

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Michi is all excited

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surely, she says, my parents would vouch for a loan!

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I've already done the numbers

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I just want to talk about it with you

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I shouldn’t be the one hesitating

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I should seize the opportunity and act!

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Whenever I face a big decision

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I pretend my life is a film script:

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the main character has no money

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but a unique opportunity

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to purchase a cheap weekend house

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and thereby resolve a conflict with his wife.

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I want to call there now

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is that alright with you?

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But to go begging to his parents

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is below his dignity.

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At the same time,

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an interesting TV-commission!

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You are the filmmaker, do it your way!

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The price of the house equals the filmbudget:

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90.000 Euro each

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that can't be a coincidence!

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Suddenly, I have a childish thought:

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how about solve all problems at once?

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Couldn't I really

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just buy the house with the film budget,

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and then shoot a low-budget film

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about a life without money?

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As in:

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the money is gone

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but that's actually the plot?

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The next morning,

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I get a definate "go" from ORF TV.

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I immediately get on the phone with the agent.

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Yes, well my wife fell in love with it

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For once, I don't want to hesitate

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I want to act!

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A week later,

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we have a kick-off meeting in the TV production offices

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where we present our strike projects.

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We do want to see synergies,

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but every project should stand for itself.

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I just registered to get a hunting permit

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because I feel that's more feasible

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rather than slaughtering a cow

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Rafael Haider wants to spend one year

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eating self-made food

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But if someone invites you for lunch

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to their home

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what then?

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Well, that won't be possible

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You're not going to go?

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Or you're going to bring your own stuff?

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I'll take something with me

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a small packed lunch.

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We're more and more dependent on all these likes

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Catalina Molina will spend a year

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living without the internet.

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From now on, you'll only reach me by phone

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or by mail

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this is my adress

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- You can choose!
- Really?

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- Wow, I had that one!
- I also had that one!

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Lisa Weber is going on a speaking strike.

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I guess it doesn't make for great film material

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a person who doesn't talk for a year.

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I also need to be careful not to isolate myself completely.

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I'm quite nervous

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I want to explain how

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I'll tell a story about climate activism

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by challenging consumer society.

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I'll have much better possibilities for getting into activist circles

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if I'm the guy without money.

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I mean, the best product is the one that you don't buy

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in terms of CO2-emissions.

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It's a totally coherent way

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of taking this climate strike to the next level

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Ani Gülgün-Mayr

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our head of programming

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is relieved to have the unpopular climate topic

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out of the way

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Spending no money is a subject that affects everyone

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Everyone accepts that

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working without a film crew

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is "conceptually necessary”

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Noone traces it back to the fact

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that I'll be buying a weekend house

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with the film budget

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- Barter trade?
- Yeah!

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Of course the house

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has a far longer life-span

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than the film

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my most important ally to pay out

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the entire budget as a fee to myself

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is Miguel, my tax advisor

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You'll have 100% of your fee left over

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and then you pay back the loan

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Because interest rates

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are much lower than the taxes?

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We currently have a zero-interest period

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I set up a production company, ARGE SCHWARZ

276
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I'll also be doing cut and camera

277
00:12:00,840 --> 00:12:03,277
I could also pay myself an acting fee

278
00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:05,320
To make it look more professional,

279
00:12:05,404 --> 00:12:06,960
I'll use my pseudonyms

280
00:12:07,120 --> 00:12:09,000
You get synergy effects

281
00:12:09,280 --> 00:12:10,920
call it shell companies

282
00:12:11,004 --> 00:12:12,120
we're not the only ones doing this.

283
00:12:12,204 --> 00:12:13,840
It always depends on the situation

284
00:12:13,924 --> 00:12:16,160
If the camera work is too complicated

285
00:12:16,244 --> 00:12:19,160
my friends Georg und Marie-Therese will help out

286
00:12:19,600 --> 00:12:21,280
Now the screen is locked

287
00:12:21,364 --> 00:12:22,920
Georg is currently going through

288
00:12:23,004 --> 00:12:24,280
a period of soul-searching

289
00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,120
for him, it's a point of honour

290
00:12:27,204 --> 00:12:29,160
to work for free

291
00:12:29,280 --> 00:12:32,280
on a film about a life without money.

292
00:12:32,800 --> 00:12:34,920
So he get nicknamed “Generous George”.

293
00:12:35,004 --> 00:12:36,680
Cameraboy George!

294
00:12:37,760 --> 00:12:39,360
Michi thinks it's cynical

295
00:12:39,444 --> 00:12:41,440
to want to live for a year without money

296
00:12:41,524 --> 00:12:44,320
especially considering those
who are really in need

297
00:12:44,520 --> 00:12:45,680
You have your own pencil, right?

298
00:12:45,840 --> 00:12:47,960
Nonetheless, she signs the contract.

299
00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:50,360
She can't believe her good luck

300
00:12:50,444 --> 00:12:51,880
- Who shall I give them to?
- To Michaela!

301
00:12:52,200 --> 00:12:54,360
Now she really own a house in the country.

302
00:12:55,880 --> 00:12:57,920
I don't quite believe
I'm really doing this:

303
00:12:58,004 --> 00:12:59,160
I never owned anything

304
00:12:59,320 --> 00:13:02,077
did I just spend the budget for a documentary film

305
00:13:02,160 --> 00:13:03,837
about a money strike

306
00:13:03,920 --> 00:13:06,000
on a property?

307
00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,517
My director's fee

308
00:13:08,600 --> 00:13:10,920
will pay the renovation

309
00:13:11,640 --> 00:13:14,640
Perfect conditions for a year without money:

310
00:13:17,080 --> 00:13:18,600
I don't have any left.

311
00:13:25,240 --> 00:13:28,240
But how am I really going
to manage without money?

312
00:13:29,080 --> 00:13:30,240
Time to quit the studio

313
00:13:30,324 --> 00:13:31,917
move the most important equipment

314
00:13:32,000 --> 00:13:33,160
to my son's former bedroom.

315
00:13:33,800 --> 00:13:36,120
Give away the rest on the internet.

316
00:13:36,280 --> 00:13:38,520
If it's for free, people will take just about everything

317
00:13:38,880 --> 00:13:41,837
even dustballs and wood shavings

318
00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:43,160
I'd love to take it!

319
00:13:43,640 --> 00:13:44,560
Update successful

320
00:13:44,680 --> 00:13:47,680
I'll take care of my parents'
house and their computer

321
00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:50,880
they'll pay my share of the rent

322
00:13:53,040 --> 00:13:55,320
Michi is so thankfull for the weekend house

323
00:13:55,404 --> 00:13:57,720
that she'll pay the electricity and gas bills for a year.

324
00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:01,720
Bizarrely, I also don't have have to
pay my production assistant.

325
00:14:02,080 --> 00:14:03,920
It's in the settings for login & access

326
00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,240
Constanze wants to intern

327
00:14:06,840 --> 00:14:08,760
so she can get a foot into the film industry.

328
00:14:09,280 --> 00:14:12,280
I give her full access to my empty bank accounts

329
00:14:14,560 --> 00:14:15,800
I'm dead serious:

330
00:14:16,640 --> 00:14:17,757
for one year,

331
00:14:17,840 --> 00:14:19,720
I don't want to have
anything to with money.

332
00:14:20,040 --> 00:14:21,080
I don't want earn it

333
00:14:21,760 --> 00:14:23,160
touch it

334
00:14:23,400 --> 00:14:25,480
or even think about it

335
00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:30,200
The day before new year's eve:

336
00:14:30,360 --> 00:14:32,640
my final big shopping trip

337
00:14:32,800 --> 00:14:35,320
a confused, last-minute mix of luxury party goodies

338
00:14:35,480 --> 00:14:36,760
and spaghetti

339
00:14:39,120 --> 00:14:41,560
I stash away some emergency
ration in the bookshelf

340
00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:44,560
and I switch my mobile to a prepaid card

341
00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:47,240
20 euros must be enough for one year

342
00:14:48,400 --> 00:14:50,360
The last 500 euros are turned into art-prints

343
00:14:50,480 --> 00:14:51,960
and dispatched to friends

344
00:14:52,600 --> 00:14:55,600
proudly announcing my "financial sabbatical year"

345
00:14:56,320 --> 00:14:59,120
they're also an upfront artistic payment for all the free drinks

346
00:14:59,204 --> 00:15:02,120
I'm hoping to be invited to

347
00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,360
Welcome, you're on TV!

348
00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:07,197
You laugh, but you don't really know Pac Man, right?

349
00:15:07,280 --> 00:15:08,560
on new-years eve

350
00:15:08,644 --> 00:15:10,117
we have cheese fondue

351
00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:12,717
I've spent my last cash on lottery tickets

352
00:15:12,800 --> 00:15:13,400
as my nest egg

353
00:15:13,680 --> 00:15:16,160
as an emergency exchange currency

354
00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:17,840
I feel save with it

355
00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:19,880
The last coins go to Rosa

356
00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:22,000
I don’t need them anymore

357
00:15:22,120 --> 00:15:23,640
I’ll save all of it

358
00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:26,040
Untill the end of the year!

359
00:15:26,160 --> 00:15:27,040
Just before midnight

360
00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:28,600
we walk over to the Danube Canal

361
00:15:28,684 --> 00:15:30,680
to watch the others' fireworks.

362
00:15:30,880 --> 00:15:31,840
There was one!

363
00:15:33,280 --> 00:15:34,640
A fitting image for the next year:

364
00:15:36,120 --> 00:15:37,600
I'll make do

365
00:15:38,360 --> 00:15:39,716
with whatever others leave behind.

366
00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:41,360
3-2-1

367
00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:46,120
And then it's 2021

368
00:15:47,040 --> 00:15:48,440
January, Febuary, March, April, May...

369
00:15:49,360 --> 00:15:52,360
My money strike has started.

370
00:16:06,640 --> 00:16:07,357
Car!

371
00:16:07,440 --> 00:16:08,440
January:

372
00:16:08,800 --> 00:16:09,560
Dolphin

373
00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,880
We spend the first days in happy hibernation.

374
00:16:14,920 --> 00:16:16,037
What do you want?

375
00:16:16,120 --> 00:16:17,360
Back in Vienna, things get serious

376
00:16:17,444 --> 00:16:18,320
Carrots?

377
00:16:18,720 --> 00:16:19,600
Or into the rubbish bins

378
00:16:19,720 --> 00:16:22,720
To save food via a "foodsharing"-plattform

379
00:16:22,880 --> 00:16:25,880
I first have to pass a tricky online quiz.

380
00:16:27,600 --> 00:16:28,920
At 8 in the morning

381
00:16:29,080 --> 00:16:30,797
we assemble at Vienna's Hannover Market

382
00:16:30,880 --> 00:16:33,637
and pick through the waste left
behind by the vegetable merchants

383
00:16:33,720 --> 00:16:34,760
Wow, aubergines, awesome!

384
00:16:35,080 --> 00:16:36,317
Whatever we can spare

385
00:16:36,400 --> 00:16:38,960
gets deposited in public fridges

386
00:16:39,680 --> 00:16:41,600
Do you want pizza sticks and breadrolls?

387
00:16:41,760 --> 00:16:43,880
And there's more stuff to be found

388
00:16:44,000 --> 00:16:46,280
in garbage rooms in my neighbourhood

389
00:16:46,560 --> 00:16:49,560
- The stuff here is covered with coffee!
- Well, I don't really mind.

390
00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:51,640
- You don't mind?
- No. I've often...

391
00:16:51,880 --> 00:16:54,640
- Pastries covered with coffee?!
- Some of it was actually really tasty.

392
00:16:56,200 --> 00:16:58,396
Well, I don't know, they do actually
look ok, these brown mushrooms

393
00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:00,520
Abstract knowledge turns into tangible reality

394
00:17:01,000 --> 00:17:03,357
You have shelves forever filled with fresh food

395
00:17:03,440 --> 00:17:07,600
and behind the scenes, tonnes of perfectly
fine produce ends up in bins

396
00:17:09,200 --> 00:17:12,200
Alas, this also happens
in organic supermarkets.

397
00:17:12,720 --> 00:17:14,160
How are we doing with the mangos, Chris?

398
00:17:14,320 --> 00:17:15,440
You want to have those?

399
00:17:15,600 --> 00:17:18,560
Unlike those people who really depend on salvaged food

400
00:17:19,880 --> 00:17:22,197
my freedom from money is my own choice.

401
00:17:22,280 --> 00:17:24,320
I'm proud to be picking through junk

402
00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:28,000
and I sense my moral compass shifting:

403
00:17:28,600 --> 00:17:31,560
eating low-budget industrial meat

404
00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:35,800
and long-distance strawberries
from Brazil now feels heroic

405
00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,560
Do you want saved food from the trash?

406
00:17:40,320 --> 00:17:41,560
A money strike?

407
00:17:41,800 --> 00:17:43,480
In practise, that means:

408
00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:45,640
I do all my trips by bike.

409
00:17:46,480 --> 00:17:47,880
My social insurance remains in place

410
00:17:48,000 --> 00:17:49,157
but I don't go to the doctor.

411
00:17:49,240 --> 00:17:50,680
I use no medication

412
00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:52,760
except the free covid-vaccine

413
00:17:53,360 --> 00:17:54,756
Washing liquid can be made

414
00:17:54,840 --> 00:17:56,517
from soap and old schnaps

415
00:17:56,600 --> 00:17:58,240
You can read new books

416
00:17:58,360 --> 00:17:59,960
in the library

417
00:18:00,520 --> 00:18:01,837
Due to the pandemic,

418
00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:03,960
socialising takes place at my home

419
00:18:04,400 --> 00:18:06,920
The dinner guests bring
along beer and pretzel sticks

420
00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:08,517
Yes, thanks so much for the kind invitation

421
00:18:08,600 --> 00:18:09,960
I'm really honored...

422
00:18:10,160 --> 00:18:11,760
In exchange for an online lecture

423
00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:14,080
I get olive oil

424
00:18:14,400 --> 00:18:15,520
as birthday presents

425
00:18:15,640 --> 00:18:16,800
I go for Origami-flowers

426
00:18:18,080 --> 00:18:21,040
and Michi gets a sound collage entitled:

427
00:18:21,360 --> 00:18:23,480
"What your friends like about you!"

428
00:18:23,600 --> 00:18:24,476
You’re such a special person!

429
00:18:24,560 --> 00:18:25,640
You’re so talented

430
00:18:25,840 --> 00:18:28,240
Actually, honest compliments should never cost anything

431
00:18:29,040 --> 00:18:32,040
...youthful, on the other hand, you're very wise!

432
00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:35,116
I like you a lot!

433
00:18:35,200 --> 00:18:36,636
- Everthing’s ok?
- Yes.

434
00:18:36,720 --> 00:18:39,037
There's also something else
I can exchange for food:

435
00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:40,320
my own blood.

436
00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:43,276
After donating, you can have a little meal

437
00:18:43,360 --> 00:18:45,360
or a takeaway snack

438
00:18:46,120 --> 00:18:47,440
How much can I take?

439
00:18:47,680 --> 00:18:50,680
I explain that I absolutely need to film both.

440
00:18:52,960 --> 00:18:54,040
February:

441
00:18:54,200 --> 00:18:55,880
Which side, left or right?

442
00:18:56,480 --> 00:18:58,316
Without the magic wand of money to fix things

443
00:18:58,400 --> 00:19:00,600
my life has gotten rather impractial.

444
00:19:01,040 --> 00:19:04,440
Meanwhile, Michi is earning sensational
hourly wages as a nurse

445
00:19:04,720 --> 00:19:06,240
taking nasal swabs

446
00:19:06,800 --> 00:19:09,160
She's clearly more relaxed these days.

447
00:19:09,320 --> 00:19:10,680
- Shall we meet outside?
- Yeah.

448
00:19:13,400 --> 00:19:14,636
As for Rosa,

449
00:19:14,720 --> 00:19:17,360
my strike has definitely increased
her fascination with money.

450
00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:20,400
She's probably the next one I want

451
00:19:20,560 --> 00:19:22,720
...and a horsewoman costs
20€, so you'll be at 28€

452
00:19:23,040 --> 00:19:26,040
When we tell the owner of
a toy store about my experiment,

453
00:19:26,520 --> 00:19:28,840
he gives Rosa a second horse for free

454
00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:31,960
perhaps hoping to win a future customer

455
00:19:33,080 --> 00:19:34,836
Doing something for the young consumers!

456
00:19:34,920 --> 00:19:36,477
That's really very nice of you!

457
00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:38,200
Well, that's for you to say

458
00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:41,400
I fear that you might buy some more horses

459
00:19:42,080 --> 00:19:45,160
- My year without money?
- Exactly, I'm on money strike since January!

460
00:19:45,960 --> 00:19:48,600
- Like zero?
- Like zero!

461
00:19:48,880 --> 00:19:50,436
In these first weeks

462
00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:52,920
I'm most impressed by "Robin Foods",
a group of food savers.

463
00:19:53,880 --> 00:19:55,076
David and his associates

464
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,560
are rescuing surplus food on a larger scale

465
00:19:57,920 --> 00:20:00,000
and redistributing it in public space

466
00:20:00,320 --> 00:20:03,000
- I haven't checked, when's the sell-by date?
- Well, a week ago.

467
00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,480
Transportation by bicycle is a must

468
00:20:07,120 --> 00:20:10,120
their weekly cargo-rides on some of Vienna's busiest roads

469
00:20:10,840 --> 00:20:13,560
are a way of projecting self-confidence to the outside

470
00:20:21,000 --> 00:20:22,196
The same supermarket

471
00:20:22,280 --> 00:20:24,476
that boasts of donating
a food aid package

472
00:20:24,560 --> 00:20:26,560
to charity every week

473
00:20:26,920 --> 00:20:28,240
Yeah, fruit yoghurt!

474
00:20:28,360 --> 00:20:30,637
actually throws away huge ammounts of food every evening

475
00:20:30,720 --> 00:20:32,396
- Orange-Mango-Carrot.
- Super!

476
00:20:32,480 --> 00:20:34,396
The true extent of the wastage

477
00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:37,000
is not meant to be seen.

478
00:20:37,360 --> 00:20:40,360
This also happens often, one breaks in the the box

479
00:20:40,520 --> 00:20:42,880
- ...and all are thrown away
- Exactly

480
00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:45,916
Do we need to worry about this?

481
00:20:46,000 --> 00:20:47,720
The sirens?

482
00:20:47,840 --> 00:20:49,280
Yes! Let's make a move, or?

483
00:20:49,560 --> 00:20:52,560
Left-overs for environmental education

484
00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,160
To spread the word about Robin Foods and their work

485
00:20:55,320 --> 00:20:57,400
I produce a litte video

486
00:20:58,160 --> 00:21:01,840
Joe wants supermarkets to use a minus 100% sticker

487
00:21:02,240 --> 00:21:04,036
If they give away everything half an
hour before the expiry date

488
00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:06,720
they'd have no garbage and
it all goes to the people

489
00:21:07,920 --> 00:21:10,920
I don't want to be part of a system

490
00:21:11,120 --> 00:21:13,520
that creates things anew every time

491
00:21:13,840 --> 00:21:14,916
David tells about all the things

492
00:21:15,000 --> 00:21:16,840
he's already found in the supermarket trash

493
00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:19,797
He provides me with video evidence.

494
00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:21,880
...in a mixed garbage bin. Full of those lemonades.

495
00:21:22,120 --> 00:21:24,440
We're talking about that road bump on Grinzinger Allee

496
00:21:24,840 --> 00:21:26,040
where the accident happened

497
00:21:26,200 --> 00:21:28,600
But I also film David as he plans protests

498
00:21:28,880 --> 00:21:31,880
against the car-centric traffic
policies in his district Döbling

499
00:21:32,520 --> 00:21:34,200
Now I talk a bit more about Döbling.

500
00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:36,520
What's even worse than climate collapse?

501
00:21:36,920 --> 00:21:38,120
In Döbling:

502
00:21:38,400 --> 00:21:40,520
a loss of precious car parking space!

503
00:21:41,160 --> 00:21:42,717
That's a massiv traffic obstacle.

504
00:21:42,800 --> 00:21:45,520
David's preferred protest strategy:

505
00:21:46,120 --> 00:21:47,360
bicycle demonstrations!

506
00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:49,880
I immediately join him

507
00:21:50,200 --> 00:21:51,556
and make a fool of myself

508
00:21:51,640 --> 00:21:57,240
standing beside bicycle paths with
my big sign and handwritten flyers

509
00:21:57,680 --> 00:21:58,916
That's the name of the local council leader!

510
00:21:59,000 --> 00:22:01,997
At the meeting point, I hand out
placards with juicy slogans.

511
00:22:02,080 --> 00:22:04,160
Or "Let's make Döbling a cycling district".

512
00:22:04,400 --> 00:22:05,680
The turn-out isn't exactly overwhelming.

513
00:22:05,920 --> 00:22:07,400
We remain calm

514
00:22:07,920 --> 00:22:10,120
even when aggression
comes from other players

515
00:22:13,280 --> 00:22:16,280
We stop at a crossing

516
00:22:16,640 --> 00:22:18,156
where, just recently, a mother and her two children

517
00:22:18,240 --> 00:22:19,640
were hit by a car

518
00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:22,840
I wish I had the moral courage

519
00:22:23,040 --> 00:22:24,480
to reach for the megaphone

520
00:22:25,120 --> 00:22:26,360
but I'm too shy

521
00:22:26,520 --> 00:22:27,956
and just shout our slogan

522
00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:30,440
More cycle paths for Döbling!

523
00:22:30,840 --> 00:22:32,276
In spite of the low turnout

524
00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:33,920
David is unfazed

525
00:22:34,360 --> 00:22:37,360
and organises two new cycle
protest rides every month

526
00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,156
In these days

527
00:22:39,240 --> 00:22:41,080
he becomes my activist role model:

528
00:22:42,000 --> 00:22:43,040
Don't hesitate

529
00:22:43,720 --> 00:22:44,800
just do it.

530
00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,840
I start my own first project of the year:

531
00:22:49,760 --> 00:22:52,800
a food sharing shelf in our staircase

532
00:22:56,680 --> 00:22:57,840
March:

533
00:22:59,560 --> 00:23:01,360
In my search for self-sufficiency

534
00:23:01,680 --> 00:23:03,560
I hit upon subsistence farming

535
00:23:06,040 --> 00:23:07,396
Using old junk from the neighbourhood

536
00:23:07,480 --> 00:23:09,000
we build a chicken pen

537
00:23:09,880 --> 00:23:12,880
Michi plans to save some chickens from a factory farm

538
00:23:14,440 --> 00:23:16,996
Or let's make a new compost on that side

539
00:23:17,080 --> 00:23:19,440
and next year we can get good soil from here

540
00:23:20,480 --> 00:23:22,236
A kids' brigade helps us

541
00:23:22,320 --> 00:23:23,920
dig a vegetable bed

542
00:23:24,880 --> 00:23:27,000
But wouldn't it be more exciting for my film

543
00:23:27,200 --> 00:23:29,440
if I ventured into urban agriculture?

544
00:23:30,400 --> 00:23:31,917
In my search for free land

545
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:33,880
I hit upon traffic roundabouts

546
00:23:34,960 --> 00:23:37,960
Why not grow potatoes right here?

547
00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:41,236
and show how valuable land gets sacrificed

548
00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:43,800
for the free flow of traffic?

549
00:23:44,000 --> 00:23:45,960
You could probably make electricity

550
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,000
If I know that the district is
ok with it and supporting us

551
00:23:49,280 --> 00:23:50,556
I make some unsuccessful phone calls

552
00:23:50,640 --> 00:23:51,760
to the local council offices

553
00:23:51,920 --> 00:23:52,960
Back to bureacracy, it's been a while!

554
00:23:53,120 --> 00:23:55,360
After I mention my cooperation with national TV

555
00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:58,880
a council representative
agrees to see me after all

556
00:23:59,600 --> 00:24:00,760
Well, I'm always up for talking about things.

557
00:24:01,120 --> 00:24:03,360
Günther Cermak finds my vision quite charming

558
00:24:03,520 --> 00:24:05,080
but hardly feasible

559
00:24:05,680 --> 00:24:08,680
Roundabouts are governed by
multiple, overlapping authorities

560
00:24:09,520 --> 00:24:11,640
MA46, the landowner...

561
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:14,840
Cermak runs through practically all the city departments

562
00:24:15,400 --> 00:24:16,760
I drift off

563
00:24:16,960 --> 00:24:18,680
this is getting way too complicated

564
00:24:19,400 --> 00:24:21,320
Until you actually have the permit in your hands

565
00:24:21,520 --> 00:24:23,000
you can't really begin

566
00:24:23,800 --> 00:24:25,360
As we say goodbye

567
00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:27,640
I have a flash of inspiration:

568
00:24:27,840 --> 00:24:30,840
wouldn't it be easier to sell
this as an art project?

569
00:24:31,160 --> 00:24:31,840
Definately....

570
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:33,720
Cermak confirms this.

571
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,516
I'd give it better chances as an art project
in public space, absolutely!

572
00:24:36,600 --> 00:24:38,120
For real?

573
00:24:40,920 --> 00:24:41,640
Ok.

574
00:24:43,520 --> 00:24:45,636
My perfect partners for artistic potatoe-growing

575
00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:47,360
on a traffic roundabout?

576
00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:50,040
Steffi for design

577
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:51,920
Lilli as head gardener

578
00:24:53,760 --> 00:24:55,320
plus, she also owns a tractor

579
00:24:55,520 --> 00:24:57,560
Doing this by hand would be kind of hard-core, or?

580
00:24:57,680 --> 00:24:58,797
Our project title:

581
00:24:58,880 --> 00:25:00,600
Vienna Potatoe-go-Round

582
00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:03,440
We apply for art funding

583
00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:05,840
In our budget spreadsheet,
next to my name

584
00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:08,600
is simply one word: MONEY STRIKE.

585
00:25:08,920 --> 00:25:11,440
The feeling is, literally, priceless.

586
00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:13,840
....but also low entry-barriers

587
00:25:13,924 --> 00:25:15,320
a participative neighbourhood project

588
00:25:15,920 --> 00:25:18,560
There are also parts of yourself

589
00:25:18,840 --> 00:25:21,440
that are doubtful, or self-critical...

590
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:22,800
George, my camera guy

591
00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:26,000
is currently way more into his self-development

592
00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:27,720
than into making films

593
00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:29,840
With his help

594
00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:31,360
I come to realise

595
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:33,640
how fascinated I've always been with money.

596
00:25:34,920 --> 00:25:36,160
In my very own wallet

597
00:25:36,320 --> 00:25:38,080
I've been carrying photos of my children

598
00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:39,560
printed onto foreign banknotes

599
00:25:39,760 --> 00:25:41,440
My pre-diploma project at art university

600
00:25:41,680 --> 00:25:43,320
was a fictional EU-agency

601
00:25:43,560 --> 00:25:45,840
selling advertisement space on Euro notes

602
00:25:46,400 --> 00:25:47,520
In performances,

603
00:25:47,604 --> 00:25:49,680
I often made fun of the art market

604
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,560
but my focus was nonetheless:

605
00:25:53,520 --> 00:25:55,120
money

606
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:01,400
The only thing I can tell you...

607
00:26:01,880 --> 00:26:03,440
George's probing questions

608
00:26:03,524 --> 00:26:04,880
make me realise

609
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:06,960
that my allergic dry skin

610
00:26:07,044 --> 00:26:10,000
is doing much, much better these days

611
00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,280
Into this bodily experience...

612
00:26:13,480 --> 00:26:15,240
Studying my diaries in the evening

613
00:26:15,440 --> 00:26:16,880
I detect a clear corelation

614
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,080
between periods of financial insecurity

615
00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:20,680
and allergic episodes

616
00:26:21,880 --> 00:26:23,720
Could liberation from the logic of money

617
00:26:23,840 --> 00:26:25,280
finally lead me to

618
00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,400
the liberation of my body?

619
00:26:31,520 --> 00:26:34,040
- You can also do those tomorrow!
- Yes!

620
00:26:34,600 --> 00:26:37,120
Then do one more German excercise now.

621
00:26:37,204 --> 00:26:39,360
Rosa's school has switched
back to distance learning

622
00:26:39,444 --> 00:26:40,520
...maths homework!

623
00:26:40,720 --> 00:26:43,040
so I take her on a self-study excursion

624
00:26:43,124 --> 00:26:45,200
in "political education"

625
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:47,120
For decades,

626
00:26:47,204 --> 00:26:48,840
the environmental movement has been campaigning

627
00:26:48,960 --> 00:26:51,960
again a tunnel under the "Lobau" National Park

628
00:26:53,120 --> 00:26:54,680
This summer, the City of Vienna

629
00:26:55,440 --> 00:26:57,800
wants to begin works on a highway link

630
00:26:58,880 --> 00:27:01,880
The project is euphemistically branded as "Town Road"

631
00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,080
Zwentenburg...

632
00:27:08,360 --> 00:27:09,717
I create a video

633
00:27:09,800 --> 00:27:11,600
showing how today's protests in the Lobau Forest

634
00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:12,640
are directly linked

635
00:27:12,724 --> 00:27:15,920
to some of the finest moments
in Austrian environmentalism

636
00:27:17,200 --> 00:27:18,560
So, instead of money

637
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:20,760
I'm now fishing for Likes.

638
00:27:21,080 --> 00:27:23,160
But I only get 7

639
00:27:23,320 --> 00:27:25,320
in spite of using the all-time magic formula

640
00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:26,880
"nature plus children".

641
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,240
....ruin the ground with potatoes?

642
00:27:29,400 --> 00:27:31,280
or would that be too complicated?

643
00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:32,240
April

644
00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:35,160
we get permission for our potatoe art project

645
00:27:35,560 --> 00:27:36,720
but only on sundays,

646
00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:38,280
when traffic levels are low.

647
00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:41,440
We propose a sign

648
00:27:41,524 --> 00:27:43,480
describing our lifestyle
as a "world war"

649
00:27:43,960 --> 00:27:45,480
but the authorities reject this

650
00:27:45,720 --> 00:27:47,600
as it might irritate some drivers

651
00:27:48,080 --> 00:27:50,360
Mmh, I see...

652
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,320
But what if we actually work with this restriction?

653
00:27:54,404 --> 00:27:55,197
what counts most for me

654
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:56,040
is that we can just do the project there

655
00:27:56,160 --> 00:27:58,680
the fact that automobile traffic
doesn't want to be reminded

656
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,560
of its own, disastrous impact?

657
00:28:04,160 --> 00:28:06,880
I suggest that during weekdays,

658
00:28:07,160 --> 00:28:08,640
we change our sign from "world war"

659
00:28:08,724 --> 00:28:09,640
to "world market"

660
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,280
which also goes well with
the business park next door

661
00:28:15,040 --> 00:28:17,000
One week later, in our next negotiation

662
00:28:17,084 --> 00:28:18,640
the authorities give us permission.

663
00:28:18,880 --> 00:28:20,520
The sign would be changed back

664
00:28:20,604 --> 00:28:21,800
to "we are in a World War"

665
00:28:23,160 --> 00:28:24,680
At our next meeting,

666
00:28:24,764 --> 00:28:26,160
Judith seems more earnest than usual:

667
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:28,997
nothing wrong with "cute" little feelgood-projects

668
00:28:29,080 --> 00:28:30,840
like urban gardening, bicycle demonstrations

669
00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:33,960
and food sharing in my staircase

670
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,080
But wasn't my money strike meant to lead me

671
00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,280
towards more hard-core climate activism?

672
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:43,200
It's definately on my agenda...

673
00:28:43,284 --> 00:28:45,080
something with cars in the the city!

674
00:28:46,120 --> 00:28:47,640
Against.

675
00:28:47,724 --> 00:28:50,760
Maybe go back to the starting point of the project!

676
00:28:52,080 --> 00:28:53,797
After the lockdowns are over,

677
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,720
I start going to exhibition openings again

678
00:28:55,840 --> 00:28:57,360
where I always find friends

679
00:28:57,444 --> 00:28:58,557
willing to invite me for a beer.

680
00:28:58,640 --> 00:29:00,920
Or, you're a greenie, just don't buy it?

681
00:29:01,040 --> 00:29:02,160
Other people are paying for me.

682
00:29:02,244 --> 00:29:04,037
But it's not so easy to persuade them.

683
00:29:04,120 --> 00:29:05,720
So maybe that's the work.

684
00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:09,000
Leonie and Thomas try asking trick questions,

685
00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:11,560
to see if I'm somehow cheating

686
00:29:11,644 --> 00:29:12,680
my way out of my money strike

687
00:29:12,880 --> 00:29:14,080
Yes, but then what are the rules?

688
00:29:14,440 --> 00:29:17,440
- If someone wants to go with me
on a trip to Lower Austria

689
00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:18,840
I say:

690
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,160
sure, but you've got to pay.

691
00:29:22,800 --> 00:29:25,800
But is that totally ok with you, if people pay for you?

692
00:29:26,120 --> 00:29:27,720
Yes, but it's also ok with me not to do the trip

693
00:29:27,804 --> 00:29:28,600
And when I start explaining,

694
00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:29,360
why things are like this,

695
00:29:29,444 --> 00:29:30,560
then it's actually always funny.

696
00:29:30,644 --> 00:29:31,920
They ridicule me

697
00:29:32,007 --> 00:29:33,600
for having my parents pay the rent

698
00:29:33,920 --> 00:29:36,920
Leonie calls me a "compromise clown"

699
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:40,960
It's more about showing

700
00:29:41,044 --> 00:29:43,000
that so many ressources are readily available

701
00:29:43,120 --> 00:29:44,760
I'm not saying that everyone could live like this.

702
00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:46,440
Yes, because someone else is paying.

703
00:29:47,800 --> 00:29:48,880
I like to say:

704
00:29:48,964 --> 00:29:50,800
it's given to some to take.

705
00:29:51,680 --> 00:29:53,240
I'm kind of asking myself

706
00:29:53,324 --> 00:29:54,680
how authentic things are if you
process them in a film.

707
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:56,760
Later, Thomas says it quite directly:

708
00:29:56,880 --> 00:29:59,040
I'm basically just
performing my idealism

709
00:29:59,124 --> 00:30:00,720
for the camera.

710
00:30:01,200 --> 00:30:03,040
...somehow semi-staged

711
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,280
I'm in the mood to keep provoking him

712
00:30:06,040 --> 00:30:07,760
but I'm hoping for another beer

713
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:11,240
I announce a big anti-car campaign

714
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:14,680
We're building a car out of cardboard!

715
00:30:15,680 --> 00:30:17,160
these are good markers

716
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:20,800
Couldn't we expose the privileges
given to automobile traffic

717
00:30:21,840 --> 00:30:23,760
by claiming them for ourselves?

718
00:30:23,880 --> 00:30:25,520
Which is kind of a bit annonying,

719
00:30:25,604 --> 00:30:26,880
because bikes make no noise

720
00:30:27,040 --> 00:30:28,400
and now we're making extra noise!

721
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:29,920
In the park, together with some kids

722
00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,160
I build a decoy-car with a soundbox

723
00:30:32,880 --> 00:30:34,520
How do we actually call this?

724
00:30:34,604 --> 00:30:35,760
Any suggestions for a name?

725
00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:37,280
They immediately come up

726
00:30:37,364 --> 00:30:38,960
with a name for our creation:

727
00:30:40,320 --> 00:30:44,440
a "Lauto", a loud automobile.

728
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:48,920
We hit the streets

729
00:30:49,004 --> 00:30:51,200
Our good mood evaporates on the spot.

730
00:30:51,284 --> 00:30:55,120
bashfully, we circle around the block a few times

731
00:30:55,280 --> 00:30:57,160
Then, I get into an argument with a neighbour

732
00:30:57,244 --> 00:30:59,280
who usually greets me very nicely

733
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,200
it all just feels childish

734
00:31:02,284 --> 00:31:03,280
I've had enough.

735
00:31:04,480 --> 00:31:06,200
If you don't want any noisy cars

736
00:31:06,284 --> 00:31:07,600
then you shouldn't be living in the city!

737
00:31:08,520 --> 00:31:11,120
It’s just a stupid idea

738
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:13,640
To come up with more
constructive ideas for protests

739
00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,840
I visit a street campaign

740
00:31:15,924 --> 00:31:18,000
organised by my sister Hanna

741
00:31:18,084 --> 00:31:20,200
and the association "Geht.Doch.Wien"

742
00:31:20,284 --> 00:31:22,200
meaning "Vienna, you can walk"

743
00:31:22,284 --> 00:31:25,397
campaigning for more pedestrian space in the city

744
00:31:25,480 --> 00:31:27,040
Hanna is enraged by the fact

745
00:31:27,360 --> 00:31:29,840
that residents can get parking spaces

746
00:31:29,924 --> 00:31:32,280
for just 10 euros a month!

747
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:34,680
There once was a funny intervention, with a flatbed truck

748
00:31:34,880 --> 00:31:36,480
Couldn't I make a statement

749
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:38,560
by converting an old truck into a vegetable bed

750
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:40,480
a garden for everyone!

751
00:31:40,640 --> 00:31:42,520
and then put a compost toilet on top

752
00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,640
to protest against all this unfair . . . shit?

753
00:31:46,200 --> 00:31:47,117
And as fertiliser!

754
00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:48,600
That certainly hasn't been done before!

755
00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:51,000
Or: you take a car, a convertible

756
00:31:51,084 --> 00:31:51,880
and fill it up with soil

757
00:31:52,120 --> 00:31:54,360
Hey, that would be amazing!

758
00:31:54,444 --> 00:31:56,400
With stuff for everyone, like herbs or so.

759
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:58,160
So I hit social media

760
00:31:58,244 --> 00:31:59,680
and start looking for a convertible

761
00:31:59,764 --> 00:32:01,080
for climate activism

762
00:32:01,440 --> 00:32:03,560
My neighbour Camilla reaches out to me

763
00:32:03,760 --> 00:32:05,000
And that belongs to your aunt?

764
00:32:05,084 --> 00:32:06,040
It belongs to her

765
00:32:06,124 --> 00:32:07,600
it's not in great shape anymore

766
00:32:07,840 --> 00:32:09,440
but I guess for your project...

767
00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:11,240
Next weekend, I visit Christa

768
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,200
who reminisces about glamorous road-trips

769
00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:17,480
But now the convertible
has just become a burden

770
00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:20,480
She thinks my project is visionary

771
00:32:20,680 --> 00:32:22,520
and is happy to just give it to me

772
00:32:27,560 --> 00:32:28,600
In exchange

773
00:32:28,684 --> 00:32:31,000
I insist on some symbolic garden labour

774
00:32:31,800 --> 00:32:33,560
We raise a toast to myself

775
00:32:33,644 --> 00:32:35,397
proud owner of a convertible

776
00:32:35,480 --> 00:32:36,840
but without a driving licence

777
00:32:36,924 --> 00:32:38,480
how daring!

778
00:32:39,160 --> 00:32:40,440
I also drink

779
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:42,400
to summon my courage for the return trip

780
00:32:43,000 --> 00:32:44,080
without a ticket

781
00:32:44,164 --> 00:32:45,320
hiding on the toilet again

782
00:32:47,040 --> 00:32:49,880
My neighbour Robert helps me register the car

783
00:32:50,000 --> 00:32:52,120
Hanna's association will pay the monthly fees

784
00:32:52,280 --> 00:32:53,800
What's this?

785
00:32:53,884 --> 00:32:55,480
That's the cooler.

786
00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:56,800
A few days later

787
00:32:56,884 --> 00:32:58,200
Generous George joins me

788
00:32:58,284 --> 00:32:59,960
and we go to pick it up

789
00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:01,000
In the boot

790
00:33:01,240 --> 00:33:03,520
I discover an obscure 1990ies-tape:

791
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:05,360
Do you think the tape deck still works?

792
00:33:05,640 --> 00:33:07,360
the "Kopyleft Liberation Front"

793
00:33:07,560 --> 00:33:10,560
a free soundtrack for my year without money

794
00:33:12,080 --> 00:33:15,080
perfect open-source music for me and my film

795
00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:17,720
The band doesn't seem to exist online

796
00:33:20,600 --> 00:33:21,600
Three...

797
00:33:21,684 --> 00:33:22,520
Two

798
00:33:22,604 --> 00:33:23,200
One

799
00:33:23,440 --> 00:33:25,040
Zero!

800
00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:26,880
Many of my fellow campaigners

801
00:33:26,964 --> 00:33:28,320
also don't want to be paid

802
00:33:29,040 --> 00:33:31,040
For example Stoffi, my brother-in-law

803
00:33:31,160 --> 00:33:32,840
who will build the supporting structure

804
00:33:32,924 --> 00:33:34,040
for our vegetable bed

805
00:33:34,400 --> 00:33:35,520
How about 20 cm?

806
00:33:35,604 --> 00:33:36,880
You don't need it for the herbs.

807
00:33:37,040 --> 00:33:38,480
Whenever I take along my camera

808
00:33:38,564 --> 00:33:40,037
and talk about my self-experiment

809
00:33:40,120 --> 00:33:41,480
everyone feels flattered

810
00:33:41,564 --> 00:33:43,120
and consents to being filmed

811
00:33:43,204 --> 00:33:45,000
...write your name and adress here

812
00:33:45,084 --> 00:33:46,560
Nobody seems to consider

813
00:33:47,120 --> 00:33:49,680
that I actually had a budget for filming permits

814
00:33:49,880 --> 00:33:51,600
and allowences

815
00:33:52,360 --> 00:33:53,680
Their idealism

816
00:33:54,040 --> 00:33:57,040
is paying for my weekend house

817
00:33:57,400 --> 00:33:59,560
I want you to go up here...

818
00:33:59,800 --> 00:34:01,480
Like in the circus

819
00:34:02,200 --> 00:34:04,280
To explain the house to my friends

820
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:06,477
I expertly deliver a story

821
00:34:06,560 --> 00:34:08,120
about Michi's rich aunt Rudi

822
00:34:08,280 --> 00:34:09,920
who appeared rather unexpectedly

823
00:34:10,200 --> 00:34:12,597
and died shortly thereafter

824
00:34:12,680 --> 00:34:14,120
...have to sell something maybe

825
00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:16,160
It's very cute

826
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:17,520
it's definately a special house

827
00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,200
it has a certain charm.

828
00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:21,920
They'll go to the people who live here!

829
00:34:22,040 --> 00:34:23,960
No, they'll go to the people who do the work!

830
00:34:24,240 --> 00:34:26,040
The people who live here could also work here!

831
00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:30,280
It's easier if you take it like this

832
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:31,560
And just let it drop

833
00:34:32,160 --> 00:34:32,880
Like this, right?

834
00:34:33,120 --> 00:34:34,000
May:

835
00:34:34,084 --> 00:34:35,560
Our sundays are now spent

836
00:34:35,644 --> 00:34:37,000
on the traffic roundabout

837
00:34:37,480 --> 00:34:39,040
But instead of using Lilli's tractor

838
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,240
the work has to be done by hand

839
00:34:43,360 --> 00:34:44,957
I'll be more than happy

840
00:34:45,040 --> 00:34:46,720
if we get the water here

841
00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:48,240
and this one hut

842
00:34:48,440 --> 00:34:50,600
David and Anna deliver four water tanks

843
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:52,760
with their cargo bikes

844
00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:54,597
isn't that proof enough

845
00:34:54,680 --> 00:34:56,880
that mobility without cars is workable?

846
00:34:57,080 --> 00:34:58,920
All you can drink, David. Help yourself!

847
00:35:01,320 --> 00:35:03,680
World War mutates into World Market

848
00:35:03,800 --> 00:35:05,080
As long as the Euros keep rolling

849
00:35:05,360 --> 00:35:07,680
the flow of traffic must not be disturbed

850
00:35:13,640 --> 00:35:15,200
In my opening speech

851
00:35:15,284 --> 00:35:16,600
I don't mention my money strike

852
00:35:18,520 --> 00:35:20,760
I'd rather be seen as a
courageous climate activist

853
00:35:21,200 --> 00:35:22,880
than a guy scrambling for free potatoes

854
00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:30,760
...so he was quickly let in with his big box

855
00:35:30,920 --> 00:35:33,320
to the city councilor Svihalek...

856
00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,640
Take a long swing!

857
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:44,080
David introduces me to climate campaigners

858
00:35:44,164 --> 00:35:46,440
of “Extinction Rebellion”

859
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:49,720
I film their so-called "week of rebellion"

860
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:52,077
I want to give a voice

861
00:35:52,160 --> 00:35:53,960
to the people behind the banners

862
00:35:55,160 --> 00:35:56,200
Okay, looking at you!

863
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,240
Go down a bit, so we see you too

864
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:01,120
If the animals die out

865
00:36:01,204 --> 00:36:01,917
the insects

866
00:36:02,000 --> 00:36:03,957
if the food chains collapse

867
00:36:04,040 --> 00:36:05,560
then eventually it will be our turn, too

868
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:07,237
We've seen that it's possible

869
00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:08,480
that we can take crises seriously

870
00:36:08,720 --> 00:36:10,360
It gets more intense every year!

871
00:36:10,600 --> 00:36:11,797
We have not much time left

872
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:13,520
And all we get to hear from politicians

873
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:14,560
and corporations

874
00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:15,440
and from industry

875
00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,880
is greenwashing, empty promises

876
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:19,677
And I can't

877
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:21,360
just sit on my hands and watch it happen

878
00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:23,280
When the time comes

879
00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:24,880
to look myself into the mirror

880
00:36:24,964 --> 00:36:26,440
I want to be able to say:

881
00:36:27,400 --> 00:36:29,040
“We did something, back then”

882
00:36:29,160 --> 00:36:31,200
It was clear, the facts were on the table

883
00:36:35,360 --> 00:36:36,440
But in the media

884
00:36:36,524 --> 00:36:37,920
the climate crisis is completely eclipsed

885
00:36:38,004 --> 00:36:39,280
by the pandemic

886
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:42,120
which makes me really angry

887
00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:46,080
And my videos are making hardly any difference

888
00:36:47,400 --> 00:36:49,200
Couldn't I go one step further

889
00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:52,760
and pit myself against fossil-fuel capitalism

890
00:36:53,080 --> 00:36:56,080
with my very own body?

891
00:36:58,040 --> 00:37:01,040
But spelling out my motives on a placard

892
00:37:01,520 --> 00:37:03,800
turns out to be surprisingly difficult

893
00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:06,240
Sincere feelings appear all too naive

894
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:09,280
but I can't well block a road ironically

895
00:37:09,400 --> 00:37:11,200
I'm happy that I'm finally...

896
00:37:11,320 --> 00:37:14,880
sitting on the side in front of the camera

897
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:16,200
We gather in Vienna's central park

898
00:37:16,284 --> 00:37:17,600
to discuss the split of roles:

899
00:37:17,840 --> 00:37:19,320
I will let myself be arrested

900
00:37:19,480 --> 00:37:20,920
...better would be 4 and 4

901
00:37:21,080 --> 00:37:22,080
Then we're off!

902
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:24,320
The cars oppose us

903
00:37:24,404 --> 00:37:25,520
with a heavy chorus of honking

904
00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:26,720
one lady

905
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:28,800
drives right through a banner

906
00:37:30,640 --> 00:37:32,237
paralysing the traffic

907
00:37:32,320 --> 00:37:33,917
isn't an end in itself

908
00:37:34,000 --> 00:37:35,240
but the only way

909
00:37:35,324 --> 00:37:38,240
publicly pressure politicians

910
00:37:38,760 --> 00:37:41,760
into finally implementing
their own climate goals

911
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,400
The police seals off the street within 15 minutes

912
00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:49,637
The officer in command curtly suggests

913
00:37:49,720 --> 00:37:50,800
we'd better get up

914
00:37:50,884 --> 00:37:53,600
or else risk catching a cold on the wet ground

915
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:56,760
I thought he was talking about his colt....

916
00:37:57,080 --> 00:37:58,437
The demonstration is dissolved

917
00:37:58,520 --> 00:38:00,680
but Manfred, Werner and I still stay seated

918
00:38:02,000 --> 00:38:03,680
We should get a fine

919
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,440
The police should actually haul us

920
00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:07,880
in to check our identities

921
00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:09,280
but mercifully

922
00:38:09,400 --> 00:38:10,680
they let us run

923
00:38:11,760 --> 00:38:13,440
The officers make us promise

924
00:38:14,000 --> 00:38:15,400
that we won't go right back

925
00:38:15,484 --> 00:38:17,560
to blocking the next road

926
00:38:18,400 --> 00:38:20,520
these contacts with the cars

927
00:38:20,604 --> 00:38:22,160
they didn't stress me at all

928
00:38:22,244 --> 00:38:24,237
because I didn't feel them to be humans

929
00:38:24,320 --> 00:38:25,920
they're just cars, honking

930
00:38:26,640 --> 00:38:28,397
Keeping up such a project for an entire year

931
00:38:28,480 --> 00:38:30,080
is stressfull enough as it is

932
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:31,960
So we'd also have the possibility for you

933
00:38:32,044 --> 00:38:34,480
to see a therapist

934
00:38:34,880 --> 00:38:36,760
After five months of money strike

935
00:38:36,880 --> 00:38:39,000
time for a first recap at the ORF television offices

936
00:38:39,520 --> 00:38:41,197
And these snails live at my place

937
00:38:41,280 --> 00:38:42,437
they reproduce like crazy

938
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:43,360
in the bathroom

939
00:38:43,520 --> 00:38:44,360
in the bathtub

940
00:38:44,680 --> 00:38:47,200
Rafael presents footage of his snail farm

941
00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:50,360
He's already built a loyal following on YouTube

942
00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,520
presenting foundational research

943
00:38:52,960 --> 00:38:54,960
on all things edible

944
00:38:55,280 --> 00:38:56,760
It's like an oyster

945
00:38:57,040 --> 00:38:58,400
that tastes of chicken

946
00:38:58,560 --> 00:38:59,560
That you meet in real life

947
00:38:59,644 --> 00:39:01,037
that you really share photos with each other

948
00:39:01,120 --> 00:39:02,760
Catalina's internet strike has evolved

949
00:39:03,120 --> 00:39:06,120
evolved into a weekly slideshow-night in a bar

950
00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:07,760
we project it

951
00:39:08,360 --> 00:39:09,360
like on a slide night

952
00:39:09,444 --> 00:39:10,840
a sort of substitute for social media

953
00:39:10,960 --> 00:39:12,800
and the start of a story about people

954
00:39:13,600 --> 00:39:15,560
who from the very start committed themselves

955
00:39:15,720 --> 00:39:17,200
to living without the internet

956
00:39:17,520 --> 00:39:19,160
I'm closer to myself

957
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,240
it really makes me feel much better

958
00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:23,320
I'm not missing anything

959
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,600
Lisa has completed a course for sign language

960
00:39:25,920 --> 00:39:28,557
and communicates via musical instruments

961
00:39:28,640 --> 00:39:30,120
and a small soundbox

962
00:39:32,640 --> 00:39:35,240
That's why I stopped using it very soon

963
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,680
and stuck with the “Computer Lisa”

964
00:39:37,764 --> 00:39:39,000
Was is it a long casting-process

965
00:39:39,084 --> 00:39:41,317
to know which voice will speak for you?

966
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:42,400
And the pandemic?

967
00:39:42,484 --> 00:39:45,440
Is that having an additional effect now?

968
00:39:49,400 --> 00:39:50,520
Pleasant!

969
00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:53,320
Well, that's nice.

970
00:39:53,480 --> 00:39:56,480
I present my experiences as a food saver

971
00:39:56,800 --> 00:39:59,320
and the bureacratic world war
on the traffic roundabout

972
00:39:59,760 --> 00:40:00,640
Ani suggests that

973
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:02,360
my life without money

974
00:40:02,444 --> 00:40:04,280
seems to be going just a bit too well

975
00:40:04,480 --> 00:40:05,117
To be honest

976
00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:06,440
that's just a bit too picture-perfect

977
00:40:07,120 --> 00:40:09,320
There were a number of moments

978
00:40:09,480 --> 00:40:10,920
were it was really problematic

979
00:40:11,004 --> 00:40:12,237
not to have money

980
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:14,000
But all in all

981
00:40:14,880 --> 00:40:16,397
I just got everything organised

982
00:40:16,480 --> 00:40:18,440
pretty well beforehand

983
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:20,320
You're getting a director's fee

984
00:40:20,404 --> 00:40:21,640
for your money strike

985
00:40:22,000 --> 00:40:24,040
Don't people keep asking you

986
00:40:24,124 --> 00:40:25,480
about how that goes together?

987
00:40:26,080 --> 00:40:27,080
Mmh...

988
00:40:28,560 --> 00:40:30,080
Well, so far

989
00:40:30,165 --> 00:40:31,960
that hasn't really been an issue

990
00:40:32,044 --> 00:40:33,320
It kind of worked like:

991
00:40:34,400 --> 00:40:35,720
he's the activist

992
00:40:35,840 --> 00:40:37,200
and that's why we're all helping out as well

993
00:40:37,800 --> 00:40:39,120
it was more like:

994
00:40:39,204 --> 00:40:42,160
it works without money for everyone

995
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:45,160
Lisa is right, of course

996
00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:47,560
I should just feed my director's fee

997
00:40:47,720 --> 00:40:48,920
to the animals!

998
00:40:49,480 --> 00:40:50,837
Or, even better:

999
00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:52,520
a ritual money-burning ceremony

1000
00:40:52,680 --> 00:40:55,320
as an anti-capitalist climax for my film

1001
00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:56,840
You're so silly...

1002
00:40:56,960 --> 00:40:58,280
it's of no use to you anyway

1003
00:40:58,680 --> 00:40:59,440
But...

1004
00:40:59,880 --> 00:41:02,120
I've put all the money into the weekend house now

1005
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:05,000
so I'd have to fake the burning somehow

1006
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:06,997
In January

1007
00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:10,080
Rosa and I found an envelope
for the christmas carollers on the street

1008
00:41:11,360 --> 00:41:12,680
The note burns well

1009
00:41:12,800 --> 00:41:14,400
I don't feel anything

1010
00:41:17,320 --> 00:41:18,237
I have go

1011
00:41:18,320 --> 00:41:20,560
at looking for counterfeit money in the dark net

1012
00:41:20,760 --> 00:41:23,760
A Czech supplier has the best ratings

1013
00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:26,560
I still own one-tenth of a bitcoin

1014
00:41:26,880 --> 00:41:28,240
which I could transfer

1015
00:41:28,400 --> 00:41:29,480
via an old-school computer

1016
00:41:29,600 --> 00:41:31,080
and open wifis

1017
00:41:32,240 --> 00:41:33,600
as a safe address:

1018
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:35,640
an appartment in Prague

1019
00:41:36,280 --> 00:41:37,520
It's end of May

1020
00:41:38,200 --> 00:41:39,480
officially we're invited

1021
00:41:39,564 --> 00:41:41,200
to the wedding of Michi's cousin

1022
00:41:42,800 --> 00:41:44,160
but while we act

1023
00:41:44,244 --> 00:41:45,800
as an innocent tourist family

1024
00:41:46,560 --> 00:41:47,917
we're actually waiting

1025
00:41:48,000 --> 00:41:49,240
for mail delivery

1026
00:41:49,440 --> 00:41:50,960
of 15,000 Euros

1027
00:41:51,160 --> 00:41:52,400
in small notes

1028
00:41:56,000 --> 00:41:56,956
On the last night

1029
00:41:57,040 --> 00:41:58,680
the doorbell rings

1030
00:41:59,280 --> 00:42:00,680
for three Pizzas

1031
00:42:00,800 --> 00:42:01,716
which I never ordered

1032
00:42:01,800 --> 00:42:03,200
Michi, did we order Pizza?

1033
00:42:03,360 --> 00:42:04,720
In the middle box:

1034
00:42:04,880 --> 00:42:06,480
the Europizza

1035
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:09,400
- Did you know that he'd be coming now?
- I actually thought it's coming by mail.

1036
00:42:09,520 --> 00:42:11,317
You're making fun of me now, right?

1037
00:42:11,400 --> 00:42:12,760
Because that looks damn real!

1038
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:13,920
We're scared...

1039
00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:15,680
but we cover it up by inventing names

1040
00:42:15,764 --> 00:42:17,840
for this "delivery service"

1041
00:42:19,160 --> 00:42:20,320
Okay, I start:

1042
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:21,800
Cash al forno

1043
00:42:23,560 --> 00:42:25,640
We feel like serious criminals,

1044
00:42:26,840 --> 00:42:28,197
although legally speaking

1045
00:42:28,280 --> 00:42:30,200
burning counterfeit money is no crime

1046
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,240
Rather a good deed!

1047
00:42:34,280 --> 00:42:35,400
It's what the police

1048
00:42:35,484 --> 00:42:36,600
would do as well

1049
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:41,960
You mean like this?

1050
00:42:42,480 --> 00:42:43,797
Little Bello is in charge

1051
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:45,320
of the money transport

1052
00:42:46,400 --> 00:42:48,440
we board the train with
a massive hang-over

1053
00:42:49,040 --> 00:42:50,760
when we finally cross the border

1054
00:42:50,880 --> 00:42:52,840
we are extremely relieved

1055
00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,120
June:

1056
00:42:59,680 --> 00:43:01,480
I invite selected friends

1057
00:43:01,760 --> 00:43:03,240
to my ceremonial money-burn

1058
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:05,240
on the banks of the Danube, near Kritzendorf

1059
00:43:05,480 --> 00:43:06,920
...support the success of the movie

1060
00:43:07,004 --> 00:43:09,277
I got some last-minute reassurances from my tax advisor

1061
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:12,360
yes, a burnt director's fee is indeed tax deductible

1062
00:43:12,680 --> 00:43:14,120
...an investment into the film

1063
00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:16,320
and therefore tax deductible

1064
00:43:16,960 --> 00:43:18,720
well, then we can make those

1065
00:43:18,840 --> 00:43:21,160
- I don’t like you
- Why?

1066
00:43:22,000 --> 00:43:24,120
My nephews are enlisted as helpers

1067
00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:25,397
Why are you doing this?

1068
00:43:25,480 --> 00:43:27,800
The kids are extremely anxious about my plan

1069
00:43:27,920 --> 00:43:28,957
Money is valuable!

1070
00:43:29,040 --> 00:43:31,040
and display some serious capitalist concern

1071
00:43:31,200 --> 00:43:33,640
- It's only paper!
- That's just stupid.

1072
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:35,400
I collect all phones

1073
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,960
today something radical is going to happen

1074
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:39,240
Thomas, sorry.

1075
00:43:39,640 --> 00:43:40,837
I feel like a teacher

1076
00:43:40,920 --> 00:43:42,160
Who else wants to make a spit?

1077
00:43:42,320 --> 00:43:43,240
Rafael suggest

1078
00:43:43,840 --> 00:43:46,240
we could also smoke the banknotes

1079
00:43:46,600 --> 00:43:47,600
I need you as witnesses

1080
00:43:47,684 --> 00:43:48,480
that this is really happening!

1081
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:50,240
Money is unnecessary!

1082
00:43:51,120 --> 00:43:53,120
- Bravo!
- Money is unnecessary!

1083
00:43:53,320 --> 00:43:54,637
And then: a pathetic speech

1084
00:43:54,720 --> 00:43:56,677
Our grandchildren will stand on Europe’s border

1085
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,640
the climate crises calls for radical anti-consumerism.

1086
00:43:59,840 --> 00:44:01,157
Don't light the the good money on fire!

1087
00:44:01,240 --> 00:44:01,997
Paradoxically

1088
00:44:02,080 --> 00:44:05,080
the best way of reducing
money's CO2 emissions

1089
00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:07,240
is simply to burn it

1090
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:08,760
That money is stopping us

1091
00:44:09,040 --> 00:44:10,080
from saving this planet!

1092
00:44:10,200 --> 00:44:11,640
I love how worried

1093
00:44:11,760 --> 00:44:13,480
my poor friends look

1094
00:44:13,920 --> 00:44:15,800
and how admiring the rich

1095
00:44:15,884 --> 00:44:17,760
The twenty euro bills burn better

1096
00:44:18,520 --> 00:44:19,920
I've also invited Thomas

1097
00:44:20,720 --> 00:44:22,160
eager to prove to him

1098
00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:25,000
that my money strike
isn't just a fun little project

1099
00:44:25,160 --> 00:44:27,680
...staging itself as a model green city

1100
00:44:27,764 --> 00:44:30,200
and then building highways in the suburbs

1101
00:44:30,284 --> 00:44:31,120
My nephews are

1102
00:44:31,204 --> 00:44:32,640
constantly trying to steal money

1103
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:34,760
which kind of stresses me out

1104
00:44:35,640 --> 00:44:36,760
The Czech counterfeits

1105
00:44:36,844 --> 00:44:38,520
must be completely burned

1106
00:44:39,040 --> 00:44:40,600
else I'm really in for some trouble

1107
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:44,960
Nobody suspects the true extent

1108
00:44:45,044 --> 00:44:46,200
of my criminal energy

1109
00:44:46,720 --> 00:44:48,400
organising fake money

1110
00:44:48,484 --> 00:44:49,800
to fuck over everyone

1111
00:44:51,520 --> 00:44:52,480
Generous George

1112
00:44:52,564 --> 00:44:53,720
gives me a conspirative wink

1113
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:56,000
takes 50 Euros

1114
00:44:56,084 --> 00:44:57,360
out of his own wallet

1115
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,040
I can't tell him the truth either

1116
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:06,000
And then...

1117
00:45:06,760 --> 00:45:08,240
I get competely drunk

1118
00:45:09,360 --> 00:45:10,280
which makes my show

1119
00:45:10,364 --> 00:45:11,560
even more believable

1120
00:45:13,040 --> 00:45:13,720
I mean, for real:

1121
00:45:13,804 --> 00:45:14,960
did I just blow a small car

1122
00:45:15,044 --> 00:45:15,960
into thin air?

1123
00:45:26,680 --> 00:45:27,360
Exactly...

1124
00:45:27,444 --> 00:45:28,720
if you'd get out

1125
00:45:28,804 --> 00:45:30,880
of the Vienna Bubble a bit...

1126
00:45:31,120 --> 00:45:32,160
A few days later

1127
00:45:32,244 --> 00:45:33,600
Judith shares a deep insight with me:

1128
00:45:33,684 --> 00:45:35,560
all "pioneers of money-free living"

1129
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:37,800
went on a big journey

1130
00:45:37,884 --> 00:45:39,037
at some point

1131
00:45:39,120 --> 00:45:40,840
It'd actually also be exciting

1132
00:45:40,924 --> 00:45:42,440
if you travelled somewhere

1133
00:45:42,840 --> 00:45:44,160
Oh, this guy takes a sailing boat

1134
00:45:44,244 --> 00:45:45,200
to cross the Atlantic!

1135
00:45:45,480 --> 00:45:46,360
How should I do this?

1136
00:45:46,600 --> 00:45:47,960
You don't have to sail

1137
00:45:48,044 --> 00:45:48,840
but what about the Danube?

1138
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:49,640
Of course

1139
00:45:49,724 --> 00:45:51,240
I've already been thinking about

1140
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:52,480
how to join my family

1141
00:45:52,564 --> 00:45:54,160
on their vacation in Carinthia

1142
00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:56,160
I obviously can't

1143
00:45:56,680 --> 00:45:59,000
do climate road blocks

1144
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:01,200
and then privately travel by car

1145
00:46:01,320 --> 00:46:02,880
...this is not something where you're saying

1146
00:46:03,120 --> 00:46:04,640
it has to be in the film

1147
00:46:04,724 --> 00:46:06,080
Look, I also just want it to be good

1148
00:46:06,320 --> 00:46:07,680
Why not have another glass of wine

1149
00:46:07,764 --> 00:46:08,760
and then you tell me the truth?

1150
00:46:09,080 --> 00:46:10,637
So, I'll go by foot

1151
00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:11,600
You can just try it

1152
00:46:11,684 --> 00:46:12,880
Worst case, you get scared

1153
00:46:12,964 --> 00:46:14,520
and have to drive back to Vienna

1154
00:46:18,320 --> 00:46:20,160
Fast-forward through the rest of June:

1155
00:46:21,640 --> 00:46:22,800
Me documenting the

1156
00:46:22,884 --> 00:46:24,120
"First Vienna Traffic Light Race"

1157
00:46:24,440 --> 00:46:26,160
which highlights some impossibly short

1158
00:46:26,244 --> 00:46:28,280
green lights at pedestrian crossings

1159
00:46:29,200 --> 00:46:29,996
After a long search

1160
00:46:30,080 --> 00:46:31,040
for a hairdresser

1161
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:32,960
who's willing to exchange his services

1162
00:46:33,440 --> 00:46:34,800
I finally find Billan

1163
00:46:34,884 --> 00:46:36,280
and babysit his daughter

1164
00:46:37,400 --> 00:46:38,920
Launching an improvised

1165
00:46:39,004 --> 00:46:40,280
money-free summer cinema

1166
00:46:40,364 --> 00:46:41,680
with Constanze and David

1167
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:43,640
We give ourselves a glamorous name

1168
00:46:43,920 --> 00:46:46,157
to persuade up-and-coming filmmakers

1169
00:46:46,240 --> 00:46:48,720
to share their newest works

1170
00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:50,237
When it rains

1171
00:46:50,320 --> 00:46:51,640
we shelter beneath the U-Bahn-arcades

1172
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:54,520
A last house maintenance service for my parents

1173
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:55,960
I'm always happy

1174
00:46:56,044 --> 00:46:57,280
when I can give something back

1175
00:46:57,364 --> 00:46:58,560
for the rent they're paying

1176
00:46:58,800 --> 00:47:00,960
Should I put all that into my rucksack?

1177
00:47:01,080 --> 00:47:02,080
And see how it feels?

1178
00:47:02,164 --> 00:47:02,520
July

1179
00:47:03,240 --> 00:47:04,640
Feels better.

1180
00:47:04,760 --> 00:47:06,240
Michi buys me a chocolate bars

1181
00:47:06,324 --> 00:47:07,800
and takes me out for ice-cream

1182
00:47:08,240 --> 00:47:09,240
It's for real now, or?

1183
00:47:09,324 --> 00:47:10,480
She clings firm to her belief

1184
00:47:10,564 --> 00:47:11,680
that I'll still change my mind

1185
00:47:11,764 --> 00:47:12,800
Take care of yourself!

1186
00:47:12,884 --> 00:47:15,524
assures me that she'll be ready
to rescue me at any time

1187
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:18,197
Don't you dare loose your phone

1188
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:19,040
And then I'm off

1189
00:47:19,640 --> 00:47:20,800
my life boiled down

1190
00:47:20,884 --> 00:47:22,640
to three clear tasks:

1191
00:47:23,680 --> 00:47:24,600
cover the distance

1192
00:47:25,400 --> 00:47:26,280
find food

1193
00:47:27,120 --> 00:47:28,360
organise shelter

1194
00:47:29,040 --> 00:47:30,600
for example at the guest flat

1195
00:47:30,684 --> 00:47:32,600
of some friends' communal living project

1196
00:47:36,600 --> 00:47:37,637
For the second night

1197
00:47:37,720 --> 00:47:39,080
I havn't organised anything

1198
00:47:39,520 --> 00:47:41,400
I roam the suburbs in Laaben

1199
00:47:41,484 --> 00:47:42,560
in the Vienna Woods

1200
00:47:43,200 --> 00:47:44,080
In my imagination

1201
00:47:44,164 --> 00:47:45,200
it had been so easy

1202
00:47:45,284 --> 00:47:46,720
to ask for dinner left-overs

1203
00:47:47,200 --> 00:47:48,760
and a place to sleep

1204
00:47:49,600 --> 00:47:51,480
now, I feel like a crook

1205
00:47:53,560 --> 00:47:54,720
In the “Schöpfl" mountain lodge

1206
00:47:54,804 --> 00:47:55,920
the landlady lets me know

1207
00:47:56,004 --> 00:47:57,440
that going on a money strike is idiotic

1208
00:47:58,400 --> 00:47:59,640
her piece of free cake

1209
00:47:59,724 --> 00:48:00,760
is a humilation

1210
00:48:02,080 --> 00:48:02,800
Sure, I get it

1211
00:48:03,440 --> 00:48:04,760
I can't expect everyone

1212
00:48:04,844 --> 00:48:06,440
to believe in my project

1213
00:48:07,600 --> 00:48:09,800
Or did I just sell it badly?

1214
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:10,880
For the hike!

1215
00:48:10,964 --> 00:48:11,877
Wonderful!

1216
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:13,240
The lady in the bakery in Rohrbach

1217
00:48:13,324 --> 00:48:15,400
is happy that someone still wants to

1218
00:48:15,484 --> 00:48:16,920
eat yesterday's baguette

1219
00:48:17,360 --> 00:48:20,120
And I have one advantage over real vagrants:

1220
00:48:20,204 --> 00:48:21,520
my camera

1221
00:48:22,200 --> 00:48:24,120
The hotel "Steinschaler Hof" near the Pielach river

1222
00:48:24,720 --> 00:48:26,280
takes me in for a night

1223
00:48:27,480 --> 00:48:28,680
in exchange for a promise

1224
00:48:29,200 --> 00:48:30,560
to include their

1225
00:48:30,880 --> 00:48:32,200
marvellous wild herb garden

1226
00:48:32,680 --> 00:48:34,000
in my film

1227
00:48:34,920 --> 00:48:35,600
here we go:

1228
00:48:36,400 --> 00:48:37,560
7 seconds silence

1229
00:48:37,644 --> 00:48:39,000
between all the talking

1230
00:48:39,480 --> 00:48:40,600
an authentic advert

1231
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:42,600
for the "Steinschaler Hof" Hotel

1232
00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:51,840
I can't promise that yet

1233
00:48:52,160 --> 00:48:54,400
it would just be a scene in my film

1234
00:48:54,840 --> 00:48:55,760
Using the same trick

1235
00:48:55,844 --> 00:48:56,920
I spend two nights

1236
00:48:57,004 --> 00:48:58,640
with Ursula, Hans and Thomas

1237
00:48:58,724 --> 00:49:00,480
in a minimalistic wooden box

1238
00:49:03,320 --> 00:49:06,000
how long does Petra last in the freezer?

1239
00:49:07,000 --> 00:49:08,360
Whenever food supplies run low

1240
00:49:08,444 --> 00:49:10,160
Rafael is my emergency call number

1241
00:49:11,440 --> 00:49:12,360
when in need

1242
00:49:12,444 --> 00:49:13,920
the devil eats snails

1243
00:49:15,320 --> 00:49:17,880
Could I charge my phone here?

1244
00:49:17,964 --> 00:49:18,840
Soon enough

1245
00:49:19,800 --> 00:49:21,720
I learn how things work in restaurants:

1246
00:49:21,804 --> 00:49:24,000
first, just ask to charge your phone

1247
00:49:24,680 --> 00:49:26,200
If that leads to a conversation

1248
00:49:26,284 --> 00:49:27,520
coffee and cake will follow

1249
00:49:28,160 --> 00:49:29,840
sometimes even dinner

1250
00:49:34,520 --> 00:49:36,840
The fastest route is along the main roads

1251
00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:40,080
where cars shoot by, like projectiles

1252
00:49:41,080 --> 00:49:41,760
Noise

1253
00:49:41,844 --> 00:49:42,680
pollution

1254
00:49:42,840 --> 00:49:44,640
dead animals everywhere

1255
00:49:46,120 --> 00:49:47,480
My contempt for cars

1256
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:49,080
grows into pure hate

1257
00:49:49,480 --> 00:49:50,920
My phone lasts well!

1258
00:49:51,004 --> 00:49:53,240
And then my parents drive to Carinthia

1259
00:49:53,324 --> 00:49:54,640
planning their journey

1260
00:49:54,724 --> 00:49:56,080
so that they can invite me for a lunch

1261
00:49:56,164 --> 00:49:58,440
and give me a ride

1262
00:49:59,600 --> 00:50:02,200
Inside the car: a lovely silence

1263
00:50:02,640 --> 00:50:04,400
a gentle glide through nature

1264
00:50:04,960 --> 00:50:06,800
accompanied by Schubert's Piano concertos

1265
00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:09,960
The driver isn't a violent barbarian

1266
00:50:10,240 --> 00:50:11,160
he's just...

1267
00:50:11,760 --> 00:50:12,680
my father

1268
00:50:12,920 --> 00:50:14,756
In the match Austria versus Italy...

1269
00:50:14,840 --> 00:50:16,316
Farewell, Christoph!

1270
00:50:16,400 --> 00:50:17,880
Thanks for the lunch!

1271
00:50:17,964 --> 00:50:19,560
I hereby call this mismatch

1272
00:50:19,644 --> 00:50:21,800
between inside and outside perspectives

1273
00:50:21,884 --> 00:50:23,480
the "Automobile Paradox"

1274
00:50:23,720 --> 00:50:25,276
And I still have some kilometers ahead of me

1275
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:26,720
to think about it

1276
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:31,320
My gratitude

1277
00:50:31,404 --> 00:50:32,600
for bed and dinner

1278
00:50:32,684 --> 00:50:33,800
is boundless

1279
00:50:35,560 --> 00:50:36,080
Money

1280
00:50:36,640 --> 00:50:38,080
keeps us coldly at a distance

1281
00:50:38,164 --> 00:50:39,000
I think to myself

1282
00:50:39,400 --> 00:50:41,200
as I pet Lady, the alsatian

1283
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:43,440
only without money

1284
00:50:44,200 --> 00:50:45,240
do we become human

1285
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:50,680
Not if you're a refugee from Afghanistan

1286
00:50:50,920 --> 00:50:52,360
retorts a social-media editor

1287
00:50:52,444 --> 00:50:53,760
back at the ORF

1288
00:50:54,080 --> 00:50:55,520
where, two weeks later

1289
00:50:55,680 --> 00:50:57,520
I present my footage

1290
00:50:57,720 --> 00:51:00,600
You don't have to show every goodbye...

1291
00:51:00,684 --> 00:51:02,640
Judith thinks I could start shortening things a bit

1292
00:51:02,724 --> 00:51:03,760
I really like the thing with the snails!

1293
00:51:03,844 --> 00:51:04,960
But in my view

1294
00:51:05,044 --> 00:51:06,800
the days in Admont Abbey

1295
00:51:06,884 --> 00:51:08,360
were especially significant

1296
00:51:08,480 --> 00:51:10,760
Now I am in Admont Abbey!

1297
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:12,117
Show it to us, she says

1298
00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:14,360
Cultural monuments in the Austrian Countryside

1299
00:51:14,444 --> 00:51:16,600
are perfect for television

1300
00:51:17,240 --> 00:51:19,640
Sorry...

1301
00:51:21,520 --> 00:51:23,240
Aren't the frugal Benedictine monks

1302
00:51:23,324 --> 00:51:24,520
who live without any possesions

1303
00:51:24,604 --> 00:51:25,400
obliged to host me?

1304
00:51:25,484 --> 00:51:26,880
...Christoph Schwarz speaking

1305
00:51:26,964 --> 00:51:28,040
the pennyless pilgrim

1306
00:51:28,124 --> 00:51:28,720
And indeed:

1307
00:51:29,200 --> 00:51:30,920
I'm allowed to sleep in the monk's closed quarters

1308
00:51:31,080 --> 00:51:32,360
and recieve generous nourishment

1309
00:51:32,444 --> 00:51:33,200
from the abbey kitchen

1310
00:51:34,160 --> 00:51:35,880
The long hike is starting to drain my forces

1311
00:51:36,040 --> 00:51:37,840
I have incredible back pain

1312
00:51:38,760 --> 00:51:40,117
Father Thomas treats me

1313
00:51:40,200 --> 00:51:42,277
to a herbal gel from the abbey's pharmacy

1314
00:51:42,360 --> 00:51:43,480
...Father Thomas will take care of that

1315
00:51:43,564 --> 00:51:44,400
It's on his account

1316
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:46,720
I hike up into the Tauern mountains

1317
00:51:47,080 --> 00:51:48,320
my back still hurting

1318
00:51:48,600 --> 00:51:49,757
You're my saviour!

1319
00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,080
My guardian angel appears:

1320
00:51:51,164 --> 00:51:52,200
Generous George!

1321
00:51:53,080 --> 00:51:54,597
We speed up the toll road

1322
00:51:54,680 --> 00:51:56,240
into pristine nature

1323
00:51:56,880 --> 00:51:58,277
where I strike a thoughtful pose

1324
00:51:58,360 --> 00:51:59,400
in front of his camera

1325
00:52:00,480 --> 00:52:01,360
couldn't we see

1326
00:52:01,444 --> 00:52:02,437
the alarming temperature increases in the Alps

1327
00:52:02,520 --> 00:52:03,680
as a positive opportunity?

1328
00:52:04,760 --> 00:52:05,800
Coffee plantations?

1329
00:52:10,240 --> 00:52:12,320
Normally, I have to do it in secret

1330
00:52:12,404 --> 00:52:13,560
or I don't dare

1331
00:52:14,080 --> 00:52:16,240
could I take a packed lunch

1332
00:52:16,324 --> 00:52:17,480
for my hike?

1333
00:52:17,880 --> 00:52:19,960
Silva from the hotel packs me a free lunch

1334
00:52:20,520 --> 00:52:20,960
Yes?

1335
00:52:21,440 --> 00:52:22,277
Farewell to George

1336
00:52:22,360 --> 00:52:23,640
who paid for everything

1337
00:52:23,960 --> 00:52:25,760
today I'll be sleeping in the moutains

1338
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:27,240
I don't drink beer

1339
00:52:28,320 --> 00:52:29,760
I hike up towards the summit

1340
00:52:30,040 --> 00:52:31,200
A true environmentalist

1341
00:52:31,284 --> 00:52:32,880
shouldn't shy away from outdoor sleeping

1342
00:52:34,560 --> 00:52:35,960
I find a slanting

1343
00:52:36,044 --> 00:52:37,080
rocky platform

1344
00:52:38,720 --> 00:52:39,800
Cheers!

1345
00:52:40,040 --> 00:52:41,120
Darkness falls

1346
00:52:41,204 --> 00:52:42,800
I'm enveloped by a frightful silence

1347
00:52:43,280 --> 00:52:45,720
pressing me against the starry canopy

1348
00:52:46,480 --> 00:52:48,440
of an unbearably vast universe

1349
00:52:48,880 --> 00:52:50,120
Impossible to sleep here

1350
00:52:51,440 --> 00:52:52,320
At half-past-four in the morning

1351
00:52:52,404 --> 00:52:53,680
an assault of aggressive mountain wasps

1352
00:52:54,920 --> 00:52:56,080
forces me to flee

1353
00:52:56,164 --> 00:52:57,200
back to the valley

1354
00:52:57,720 --> 00:52:59,880
I've had enough of nature

1355
00:53:00,440 --> 00:53:01,680
I hitch a ride

1356
00:53:01,764 --> 00:53:03,240
for the first time in my life

1357
00:53:03,480 --> 00:53:05,040
and within a few hours

1358
00:53:05,124 --> 00:53:05,640
I reach Carinthia

1359
00:53:05,724 --> 00:53:06,600
Hi, it's me, Christoph

1360
00:53:06,840 --> 00:53:09,160
I crash at Jürgen's self-sufficient farm

1361
00:53:09,560 --> 00:53:11,760
I met him at a street blockade

1362
00:53:12,360 --> 00:53:13,920
20 kilometers before reaching my goal

1363
00:53:14,400 --> 00:53:15,280
I give up

1364
00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:16,680
a good spot for you to get me!

1365
00:53:16,764 --> 00:53:17,800
Michi rescues me

1366
00:53:18,440 --> 00:53:21,440
You smell a bit not-so-great

1367
00:53:21,680 --> 00:53:22,997
Ah, yes, Extinction Rebellion

1368
00:53:23,080 --> 00:53:23,600
that's also good

1369
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:25,237
There's going to be more action then?

1370
00:53:25,320 --> 00:53:26,400
Judith is disappointed

1371
00:53:26,484 --> 00:53:28,840
that I didn't take to the
streets again with Jürgen

1372
00:53:29,880 --> 00:53:31,200
while the social media lady

1373
00:53:31,284 --> 00:53:32,280
is impatient to know

1374
00:53:32,440 --> 00:53:33,880
if I still have any plans
with the convertible

1375
00:53:34,040 --> 00:53:36,000
Yes, perhaps if it's combined with a prize contest?

1376
00:53:36,560 --> 00:53:37,280
August:

1377
00:53:38,200 --> 00:53:39,000
the convertible

1378
00:53:39,720 --> 00:53:40,760
After witnessing my money burn

1379
00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:42,360
Thomas is completely convinced

1380
00:53:42,444 --> 00:53:43,640
of my activist credentials

1381
00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:45,880
He helps me with the finishing touches

1382
00:53:47,280 --> 00:53:48,800
We could plant it there

1383
00:53:49,440 --> 00:53:51,240
Camilla and I have yet to finish

1384
00:53:51,324 --> 00:53:52,640
planting the herbs

1385
00:53:53,200 --> 00:53:55,440
and already there's a snapshot in the newspaper

1386
00:53:55,680 --> 00:53:56,920
Yes, it's already in the...

1387
00:53:57,080 --> 00:53:58,157
amazing how quickly that happens

1388
00:53:58,240 --> 00:53:59,480
Our message is simple:

1389
00:53:59,600 --> 00:54:00,437
one hand to the side...

1390
00:54:00,520 --> 00:54:03,040
the easiest path to planting herbs in the city

1391
00:54:03,400 --> 00:54:04,560
is, absurdly:

1392
00:54:04,644 --> 00:54:05,560
a convertible

1393
00:54:05,760 --> 00:54:06,917
Let it dangle, the watering can

1394
00:54:07,000 --> 00:54:09,400
For an unbelievably cheap 10€ a month

1395
00:54:10,000 --> 00:54:11,757
you can privatise 10 square meters

1396
00:54:11,840 --> 00:54:13,160
of public road

1397
00:54:14,320 --> 00:54:15,560
Why does that not apply

1398
00:54:15,644 --> 00:54:16,960
to raised vegetable beds?

1399
00:54:18,640 --> 00:54:19,840
The public, however

1400
00:54:19,924 --> 00:54:21,800
interprets a soil-filled convertible

1401
00:54:21,920 --> 00:54:23,880
as an act of revenge:

1402
00:54:25,040 --> 00:54:26,400
a stag night?

1403
00:54:26,880 --> 00:54:27,800
A marriage crisis?

1404
00:54:28,720 --> 00:54:30,760
The dominance of cars in our cities

1405
00:54:31,000 --> 00:54:32,240
seems completely natural

1406
00:54:33,520 --> 00:54:34,800
why would anyone protest

1407
00:54:34,884 --> 00:54:36,037
against Natural Law?

1408
00:54:36,120 --> 00:54:36,920
I got it as a gift.

1409
00:54:37,004 --> 00:54:38,197
Want some sparkling wine?

1410
00:54:38,280 --> 00:54:39,640
The intervention strikes a chord

1411
00:54:39,760 --> 00:54:40,837
Can't you do that everywhere?

1412
00:54:40,920 --> 00:54:42,280
At our opening party

1413
00:54:42,364 --> 00:54:44,680
complete strangers stop for drinks

1414
00:54:45,440 --> 00:54:47,040
My video goes viral

1415
00:54:47,560 --> 00:54:48,520
That’s perfect!

1416
00:54:48,640 --> 00:54:49,240
That’s a great pose!

1417
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:50,800
Vienna will be wow!

1418
00:54:51,000 --> 00:54:51,800
Exactly!

1419
00:54:53,360 --> 00:54:54,360
Heading into the weekend

1420
00:54:54,444 --> 00:54:55,800
I'm greeted by own smile

1421
00:54:55,920 --> 00:54:57,920
on the title-page of a free newspaper

1422
00:54:59,800 --> 00:55:01,920
Let's hope my new-found celebrity

1423
00:55:02,120 --> 00:55:05,120
will earn me a free pass if I'm caught without a ticket

1424
00:55:06,960 --> 00:55:07,880
Ha, I have another one!

1425
00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:09,720
At the roundabout:

1426
00:55:09,960 --> 00:55:10,877
That’s disgusting!

1427
00:55:10,960 --> 00:55:12,680
a potatoe beetle attack

1428
00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:15,480
in the midst of a concrete desert

1429
00:55:16,120 --> 00:55:17,240
What are we going to do with it?

1430
00:55:17,920 --> 00:55:18,600
Throw it away!

1431
00:55:18,684 --> 00:55:19,320
But where?

1432
00:55:20,920 --> 00:55:21,960
Just because we say:

1433
00:55:22,044 --> 00:55:23,040
the first highway is congested

1434
00:55:23,160 --> 00:55:24,400
let's build a second

1435
00:55:24,484 --> 00:55:25,400
even bigger highway

1436
00:55:25,484 --> 00:55:26,400
and screw the forest

1437
00:55:26,520 --> 00:55:27,477
And then our resistance

1438
00:55:27,560 --> 00:55:29,397
against the planned new highways

1439
00:55:29,480 --> 00:55:30,560
gets more and more intense

1440
00:55:31,560 --> 00:55:32,920
The City of Vienna

1441
00:55:33,004 --> 00:55:34,680
wants to push this through

1442
00:55:35,280 --> 00:55:38,280
planned for 40-60.000 cars

1443
00:55:38,440 --> 00:55:39,560
right through residential areas

1444
00:55:39,760 --> 00:55:40,560
at a time

1445
00:55:40,644 --> 00:55:41,680
we're in the midst of a climate crisis

1446
00:55:41,880 --> 00:55:43,320
We block the access roads

1447
00:55:43,404 --> 00:55:45,320
to the freshly fenced-off construction sites

1448
00:55:46,080 --> 00:55:48,480
Our activism isn't appreciated by everyone

1449
00:55:48,680 --> 00:55:49,797
This is a violation of freedom

1450
00:55:49,880 --> 00:55:51,280
this is a public road

1451
00:55:51,640 --> 00:55:52,960
if you don't leave

1452
00:55:53,560 --> 00:55:55,080
then I'll run you over

1453
00:55:55,164 --> 00:55:56,000
I don't care!

1454
00:55:56,084 --> 00:55:56,760
You're on video!

1455
00:55:58,280 --> 00:56:00,160
For these 460-600 million

1456
00:56:00,244 --> 00:56:01,360
you can get a tenfold

1457
00:56:01,444 --> 00:56:03,160
increase of tram tracks built

1458
00:56:03,640 --> 00:56:04,800
Plans are made

1459
00:56:04,960 --> 00:56:07,360
at a big networking meeting in the Lobau forest

1460
00:56:07,760 --> 00:56:09,400
Then, the action quickly unfolds:

1461
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:11,560
a protest camp is set up

1462
00:56:11,644 --> 00:56:12,760
in the 22nd district in Hirschstetten

1463
00:56:13,360 --> 00:56:14,320
a few days later

1464
00:56:14,800 --> 00:56:17,120
two construction sites are completely blocked

1465
00:56:19,400 --> 00:56:21,400
I shoot a video in support of the mobilisation effort

1466
00:56:22,080 --> 00:56:24,520
"How to Occupy a Digger"

1467
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:26,400
More movement!

1468
00:56:26,520 --> 00:56:28,440
Who wants to stop new highways

1469
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:30,597
flocks to the 22nd district in Hirschstetten

1470
00:56:30,680 --> 00:56:31,920
3... 4...

1471
00:56:32,040 --> 00:56:33,520
Apocalypse!

1472
00:56:33,604 --> 00:56:34,840
Lobau!

1473
00:56:34,924 --> 00:56:35,640
Must remain!

1474
00:56:35,724 --> 00:56:36,640
Lobau?

1475
00:56:36,724 --> 00:56:38,320
Must remain!

1476
00:56:40,280 --> 00:56:42,480
Soon, there are rumors

1477
00:56:42,564 --> 00:56:44,000
of a potential eviction

1478
00:56:44,160 --> 00:56:45,080
The more people

1479
00:56:45,164 --> 00:56:46,400
spend the night at the construction sites today

1480
00:56:46,484 --> 00:56:47,320
the better

1481
00:56:47,640 --> 00:56:49,160
I’ll keep filming here...

1482
00:56:49,440 --> 00:56:50,960
And if it gets dark, I'll come over

1483
00:56:51,920 --> 00:56:53,400
...comfortable jogging pants for sleeping

1484
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:54,800
But nothing happens

1485
00:56:55,040 --> 00:56:56,320
no police

1486
00:56:57,080 --> 00:56:58,717
So, the next morning we carry right on

1487
00:56:58,800 --> 00:57:00,760
and occupy a third construction site

1488
00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:03,840
If I develop public transport

1489
00:57:03,924 --> 00:57:05,160
more people will use public transport

1490
00:57:05,244 --> 00:57:06,280
if I invest in roads

1491
00:57:06,364 --> 00:57:07,600
more people will drive by car

1492
00:57:11,760 --> 00:57:13,000
Many people who live here

1493
00:57:13,084 --> 00:57:14,440
are against the project

1494
00:57:14,524 --> 00:57:15,760
but they've given up

1495
00:57:15,844 --> 00:57:17,120
or they think nothing can be done

1496
00:57:17,360 --> 00:57:20,360
We want to show that something can be done here!

1497
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:24,280
September

1498
00:57:25,120 --> 00:57:26,520
The arts scene also starts

1499
00:57:26,604 --> 00:57:28,200
taking an interest in activism

1500
00:57:28,960 --> 00:57:30,200
a German curator

1501
00:57:30,284 --> 00:57:31,317
invites me to a talkshow

1502
00:57:31,400 --> 00:57:33,000
in an urban development area

1503
00:57:33,280 --> 00:57:34,920
near the occupied construction sites

1504
00:57:36,480 --> 00:57:38,440
I bring along some harmless ballons

1505
00:57:38,960 --> 00:57:39,680
and explain to Tim

1506
00:57:40,200 --> 00:57:42,560
that the night before, we inflated them

1507
00:57:42,920 --> 00:57:45,200
by tapping air from SUV tires

1508
00:57:48,080 --> 00:57:49,760
Tim senses my fake

1509
00:57:50,320 --> 00:57:51,400
and asks me to redo the ballons

1510
00:57:51,484 --> 00:57:52,840
in front of his camera

1511
00:57:53,240 --> 00:57:54,640
There's no SUV to be found

1512
00:57:55,040 --> 00:57:56,720
so I hijack a family van

1513
00:57:57,760 --> 00:57:59,120
Once the camera is gone

1514
00:57:59,440 --> 00:58:01,720
I diligently pump the tires back up again

1515
00:58:03,400 --> 00:58:04,320
For most people

1516
00:58:04,404 --> 00:58:05,600
occupying construction sites

1517
00:58:05,684 --> 00:58:06,680
and deflating tires

1518
00:58:06,764 --> 00:58:07,804
is taking it way too far

1519
00:58:08,480 --> 00:58:09,960
a convertible converted into a herbal bed

1520
00:58:10,160 --> 00:58:12,600
earns you sympathetic supporters all around

1521
00:58:14,120 --> 00:58:15,557
A few days later, however...

1522
00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:17,680
the authorities threaten to tow away our car

1523
00:58:17,920 --> 00:58:20,000
They claim it's not really a functioning car

1524
00:58:20,680 --> 00:58:22,560
We'd definitely drive it to a different road

1525
00:58:23,080 --> 00:58:24,960
So we hunt for a new parking spot

1526
00:58:27,920 --> 00:58:29,560
The authorities aren't satisfied

1527
00:58:30,120 --> 00:58:31,480
a car must be ready

1528
00:58:31,600 --> 00:58:32,637
to drive at all times

1529
00:58:32,720 --> 00:58:33,757
You immediately saw

1530
00:58:33,840 --> 00:58:36,080
how public space unfolds such power

1531
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:38,236
once we use it for things other

1532
00:58:38,320 --> 00:58:39,800
than just parking out cars

1533
00:58:40,480 --> 00:58:41,840
If it's being given away so cheaply

1534
00:58:41,924 --> 00:58:43,076
then all citizens should

1535
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:44,920
be allowed to use this space

1536
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,080
to have a vegetable garden for €10 a month

1537
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:49,160
or table-football

1538
00:58:49,640 --> 00:58:50,480
a coffee-table

1539
00:58:51,400 --> 00:58:52,360
a video-editing desk.

1540
00:58:53,480 --> 00:58:55,040
The media quickly latch onto

1541
00:58:55,124 --> 00:58:56,636
this cat-and-mouse game between

1542
00:58:56,720 --> 00:58:58,600
the authorities and our convertible herbal-garden

1543
00:58:59,360 --> 00:59:01,320
but it kind of distracts
from our core message:

1544
00:59:02,200 --> 00:59:04,556
if you invest 3 billion euros

1545
00:59:04,640 --> 00:59:06,560
into building highways

1546
00:59:06,760 --> 00:59:07,800
More space for people

1547
00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:09,640
less space for cars

1548
00:59:10,600 --> 00:59:12,396
So, we remove the soil from the driver's seat

1549
00:59:12,480 --> 00:59:14,000
and fit it with a big pot of herbs

1550
00:59:15,120 --> 00:59:16,080
At first glance

1551
00:59:16,240 --> 00:59:17,920
the authorities have won this game

1552
00:59:18,320 --> 00:59:18,840
but:

1553
00:59:19,280 --> 00:59:20,560
we suddenly gain mobility

1554
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:22,880
On the way to a street fair

1555
00:59:23,040 --> 00:59:24,800
Flo parks in front of his favourite bar

1556
00:59:25,120 --> 00:59:26,640
to impress his friends

1557
00:59:27,280 --> 00:59:28,240
Could we have mojitos?

1558
00:59:28,640 --> 00:59:29,437
Our car-grown mint

1559
00:59:29,520 --> 00:59:31,040
is used to mix a Mojito

1560
00:59:31,720 --> 00:59:32,600
which is fine with me

1561
00:59:33,400 --> 00:59:35,040
as long as I don't have to pay

1562
00:59:35,160 --> 00:59:36,156
I can’t drink all...

1563
00:59:36,240 --> 00:59:37,240
I have to go by bike

1564
00:59:37,360 --> 00:59:38,680
You also have 0.5 per mille, right?

1565
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:41,557
Hold it straight, please!

1566
00:59:41,640 --> 00:59:43,560
- Like this?
- Yes, sure, straight!

1567
00:59:48,240 --> 00:59:48,920
Hello!

1568
00:59:49,720 --> 00:59:50,960
Would you like to have a drink with us?

1569
00:59:53,840 --> 00:59:54,800
Without the dog, afterwards?

1570
00:59:55,640 --> 00:59:58,120
What happened to your idea...

1571
00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,480
of putting people in the center?

1572
01:00:00,680 --> 01:00:02,677
If you build this stupid city highway!

1573
01:00:02,760 --> 01:00:04,800
The next wave of Extinction Rebellion protests

1574
01:00:04,960 --> 01:00:06,880
is also directed against the city highway:

1575
01:00:07,040 --> 01:00:09,200
Straighten the banner once more!

1576
01:00:09,360 --> 01:00:10,556
Anna and Werner smuggle themselves

1577
01:00:10,640 --> 01:00:11,760
into the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party

1578
01:00:12,040 --> 01:00:14,200
Please, no more concrete-pouring politics!

1579
01:00:14,720 --> 01:00:17,320
Once again, Conny performs her anti-highway anthem

1580
01:00:18,080 --> 01:00:19,476
...we must enter the Lobau forest!

1581
01:00:19,560 --> 01:00:20,640
Cars make noise!

1582
01:00:21,320 --> 01:00:22,560
We make music!

1583
01:00:22,960 --> 01:00:24,520
Make public transport free

1584
01:00:24,640 --> 01:00:25,600
and party on the streets!

1585
01:00:26,200 --> 01:00:29,197
My convertible is summoned to a big street blockade

1586
01:00:29,280 --> 01:00:30,800
as a symbol of resistance!

1587
01:00:30,960 --> 01:00:32,516
I think chaining myself to the convertible

1588
01:00:32,600 --> 01:00:33,677
is too much for me

1589
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:34,320
But...

1590
01:00:35,200 --> 01:00:36,436
is it worth sacrificing

1591
01:00:36,520 --> 01:00:38,520
our good understanding with the authorities?

1592
01:00:44,480 --> 01:00:45,280
You know, I think

1593
01:00:45,364 --> 01:00:46,116
it stands out even more

1594
01:00:46,200 --> 01:00:47,840
if you hold it upside-down!

1595
01:00:49,200 --> 01:00:51,480
A planning meeting at the occupied construction site

1596
01:00:51,880 --> 01:00:53,480
phones off and out, actually

1597
01:00:53,720 --> 01:00:55,080
my camera isn't exactly welcome

1598
01:00:55,320 --> 01:00:56,276
That's the emergency access-corridor

1599
01:00:56,360 --> 01:00:57,680
The plan is to block a bridge

1600
01:00:57,800 --> 01:00:58,876
over the Danube Canal

1601
01:00:58,960 --> 01:01:00,200
with cable drums

1602
01:01:00,880 --> 01:01:03,717
and park the convertible smack in the middle

1603
01:01:03,800 --> 01:01:05,757
I'd need a buddy who will drive it away

1604
01:01:05,840 --> 01:01:07,080
before it gets towed off

1605
01:01:07,200 --> 01:01:08,196
Two days later

1606
01:01:08,280 --> 01:01:09,200
is the big day

1607
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:11,316
and I've not been as nervous

1608
01:01:11,400 --> 01:01:12,400
as this all year

1609
01:01:13,200 --> 01:01:14,240
I repeat my mantra:

1610
01:01:15,760 --> 01:01:17,120
"Everything is insignificant

1611
01:01:17,640 --> 01:01:19,800
in the worst case it's a good story

1612
01:01:20,840 --> 01:01:22,640
and in the end I'll play piano

1613
01:01:23,760 --> 01:01:25,040
And then you drive in there

1614
01:01:25,160 --> 01:01:26,960
and park yourself in the middle

1615
01:01:27,080 --> 01:01:29,000
With Florian, I wait for the starting signal

1616
01:01:29,480 --> 01:01:30,476
my fingers tremble

1617
01:01:30,560 --> 01:01:31,200
I'm trembling!

1618
01:01:31,284 --> 01:01:32,157
Yes, you're totally trembling!

1619
01:01:32,240 --> 01:01:33,117
Aren't the police

1620
01:01:33,200 --> 01:01:34,400
going to tow away

1621
01:01:34,484 --> 01:01:35,757
our peaceful herbs-on-wheels on the spot

1622
01:01:35,840 --> 01:01:37,240
if we turn it into a barricade?

1623
01:01:39,080 --> 01:01:40,760
Right on the medial strip!

1624
01:01:40,844 --> 01:01:42,437
But once the blockade is in place

1625
01:01:42,520 --> 01:01:43,840
I'm flooded with euphoria

1626
01:01:44,000 --> 01:01:45,956
the police seems to have no intention

1627
01:01:46,040 --> 01:01:47,080
of removing us

1628
01:01:48,080 --> 01:01:49,440
Normally the slogan is:

1629
01:01:49,524 --> 01:01:51,000
"Vienna, you're a parking lot"

1630
01:01:51,520 --> 01:01:52,717
but today it'll be:

1631
01:01:52,800 --> 01:01:54,880
"Stop the destruction, create the transformation"

1632
01:02:00,720 --> 01:02:02,240
David is also here

1633
01:02:02,760 --> 01:02:04,040
he mentions money problems

1634
01:02:04,480 --> 01:02:05,600
he doesn't know

1635
01:02:05,684 --> 01:02:06,716
how to pay the rent

1636
01:02:06,800 --> 01:02:08,000
for the club house

1637
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:10,680
he's not amused by my joking

1638
01:02:10,880 --> 01:02:13,880
suggestion to go on a rent strike

1639
01:02:14,280 --> 01:02:16,400
Exactly, there'll be some donations

1640
01:02:16,484 --> 01:02:18,560
also at the camp

1641
01:02:18,680 --> 01:02:19,840
We have some dumpster food

1642
01:02:19,924 --> 01:02:20,800
what more could you want?

1643
01:02:20,884 --> 01:02:22,320
some dumpster energy drinks

1644
01:02:22,404 --> 01:02:24,320
The last day of late summer:

1645
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:25,757
a big street party

1646
01:02:25,840 --> 01:02:27,840
owered by the climate justice movement

1647
01:02:38,040 --> 01:02:40,080
Let's briefly discuss the dramaturgy

1648
01:02:40,164 --> 01:02:42,120
let's see which plot lines

1649
01:02:42,280 --> 01:02:42,960
October:

1650
01:02:44,000 --> 01:02:45,157
Ani wants us to decide

1651
01:02:45,240 --> 01:02:46,877
which plot lines we are going to focus on

1652
01:02:46,960 --> 01:02:47,960
I'm more and more into

1653
01:02:48,044 --> 01:02:49,440
the whole subject of foraging

1654
01:02:49,760 --> 01:02:51,437
you just bread it like a schnitzel

1655
01:02:51,520 --> 01:02:52,920
Rafael is super-successful

1656
01:02:53,004 --> 01:02:54,520
with his survival cooking courses

1657
01:02:55,200 --> 01:02:56,680
he breads and fries tree bark

1658
01:02:56,764 --> 01:02:57,640
and old leather shoes

1659
01:02:58,760 --> 01:03:00,320
it just tastes of breadcrumbs

1660
01:03:01,280 --> 01:03:02,440
International

1661
01:03:03,560 --> 01:03:04,600
Intercultural

1662
01:03:04,880 --> 01:03:07,040
Please stop talking!

1663
01:03:07,124 --> 01:03:08,360
Lisa presents footage

1664
01:03:08,444 --> 01:03:10,124
from her speechless everyday life

1665
01:03:10,560 --> 01:03:11,600
Watching her boyfriend Severin

1666
01:03:11,684 --> 01:03:13,036
call a monastery in Thailand

1667
01:03:13,120 --> 01:03:14,360
to book her into a silent-retreat

1668
01:03:14,760 --> 01:03:16,200
is seriously funny

1669
01:03:17,320 --> 01:03:21,520
W-E-B-E-R-L-I-S-A

1670
01:03:22,680 --> 01:03:23,917
It means "Lobau Forest will Stay"

1671
01:03:24,000 --> 01:03:25,437
I earn praise for having evolved

1672
01:03:25,520 --> 01:03:26,440
from a charming beggar

1673
01:03:26,524 --> 01:03:27,837
into a serious climate activist

1674
01:03:27,920 --> 01:03:28,600
This is super exciting!

1675
01:03:28,684 --> 01:03:29,720
definitely follow it!

1676
01:03:30,560 --> 01:03:31,640
But what exactly

1677
01:03:31,724 --> 01:03:32,636
does my money-free life

1678
01:03:32,720 --> 01:03:33,600
boil down to

1679
01:03:34,040 --> 01:03:34,800
other than the fact

1680
01:03:34,884 --> 01:03:35,760
that you need to be rich

1681
01:03:36,000 --> 01:03:37,800
to afford poverty

1682
01:03:38,120 --> 01:03:40,080
...your family and children

1683
01:03:40,200 --> 01:03:41,280
I don't need it

1684
01:03:41,364 --> 01:03:42,997
it gives me time

1685
01:03:43,080 --> 01:03:44,080
energy

1686
01:03:44,164 --> 01:03:44,880
My colleagues appear

1687
01:03:44,964 --> 01:03:46,197
to be on top of their game

1688
01:03:46,280 --> 01:03:48,360
I would absolutely recommend it to everyone...

1689
01:03:48,720 --> 01:03:49,920
outside, Catalina confesses

1690
01:03:50,004 --> 01:03:51,400
that she's having major arguments

1691
01:03:51,484 --> 01:03:52,360
with her protagonists

1692
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:54,280
They find it completely contradictory

1693
01:03:54,364 --> 01:03:55,880
since parts of it are going to end up

1694
01:03:55,964 --> 01:03:57,680
up on the internet again

1695
01:03:57,764 --> 01:03:59,277
ORF is putting them online

1696
01:03:59,360 --> 01:04:00,200
Her plan B

1697
01:04:00,880 --> 01:04:02,677
is to switch to working with friends

1698
01:04:02,760 --> 01:04:03,560
who have followed

1699
01:04:03,644 --> 01:04:04,680
and also gone on internet-strike

1700
01:04:05,080 --> 01:04:06,480
I have two friends

1701
01:04:06,564 --> 01:04:07,560
they are open for it

1702
01:04:07,680 --> 01:04:09,080
Just between us:

1703
01:04:09,200 --> 01:04:10,117
they’re actors

1704
01:04:10,200 --> 01:04:11,397
I haven't hired them

1705
01:04:11,480 --> 01:04:12,677
but they're actually actors

1706
01:04:12,760 --> 01:04:13,960
so they have no problem

1707
01:04:14,200 --> 01:04:15,357
with having a camera

1708
01:04:15,440 --> 01:04:16,160
pointed at them all the time

1709
01:04:16,400 --> 01:04:17,437
I often dream

1710
01:04:17,520 --> 01:04:18,960
of being allowed to talk again

1711
01:04:19,044 --> 01:04:20,360
but no longer being able to

1712
01:04:20,480 --> 01:04:21,920
I'm seriously scared

1713
01:04:22,004 --> 01:04:24,360
that some of my muscles are withering

1714
01:04:25,280 --> 01:04:26,437
And Lisa, since a few weeks

1715
01:04:26,520 --> 01:04:27,920
has been battling with nightmares

1716
01:04:28,120 --> 01:04:29,720
And what if you just sing

1717
01:04:29,804 --> 01:04:32,000
for yourself a bit, at night?

1718
01:04:32,520 --> 01:04:34,277
by now I'm also increasingly scared

1719
01:04:34,360 --> 01:04:36,640
of hearing my own voice again

1720
01:04:36,800 --> 01:04:38,040
Oh no...

1721
01:04:40,200 --> 01:04:41,200
Next Sunday

1722
01:04:41,284 --> 01:04:42,520
we gather on the traffic roundabout

1723
01:04:42,604 --> 01:04:43,800
for a harvest festival

1724
01:04:44,000 --> 01:04:45,640
The children find the car park

1725
01:04:45,760 --> 01:04:47,760
more exciting than the potato field!

1726
01:04:48,040 --> 01:04:50,040
Ok somebody else?

1727
01:04:50,160 --> 01:04:51,480
Hanna, would you like to bet?

1728
01:04:51,600 --> 01:04:52,360
I thing 89kg!

1729
01:04:52,600 --> 01:04:53,720
You're all so optimistic!

1730
01:04:54,080 --> 01:04:54,997
Christoph, tell me!

1731
01:04:55,080 --> 01:04:55,640
I said 40kg!

1732
01:04:56,040 --> 01:04:58,240
It's great that so many people

1733
01:04:58,720 --> 01:05:01,077
trust a roundabout

1734
01:05:01,160 --> 01:05:02,520
to be able to grow something here

1735
01:05:03,200 --> 01:05:04,280
That we have managed to

1736
01:05:04,480 --> 01:05:05,600
turn this non-place

1737
01:05:05,840 --> 01:05:06,997
a meeting place

1738
01:05:07,080 --> 01:05:09,440
a place where you feel comfortable

1739
01:05:09,640 --> 01:05:10,680
I personally

1740
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:11,800
liked this the most

1741
01:05:11,920 --> 01:05:13,157
Steffi reads out the results

1742
01:05:13,240 --> 01:05:14,520
of pollutant testing

1743
01:05:15,920 --> 01:05:18,640
our potatoes are safe to eat

1744
01:05:18,760 --> 01:05:20,520
...below the threshold

1745
01:05:22,000 --> 01:05:23,357
Let’s get going!

1746
01:05:23,440 --> 01:05:24,280
get to the tool

1747
01:05:24,400 --> 01:05:25,397
If it helps

1748
01:05:25,480 --> 01:05:27,080
I can count the rhythm

1749
01:05:27,200 --> 01:05:27,560
Stab

1750
01:05:27,720 --> 01:05:28,117
lift

1751
01:05:28,200 --> 01:05:28,720
pull

1752
01:05:40,680 --> 01:05:42,480
While the others start digging

1753
01:05:43,040 --> 01:05:44,320
I can't help wondering

1754
01:05:44,520 --> 01:05:46,080
about the essence of my money-free year

1755
01:05:47,760 --> 01:05:49,600
I was able to master all challenges

1756
01:05:49,684 --> 01:05:51,480
thanks to the help of other people

1757
01:05:52,480 --> 01:05:53,800
Is this the deeper message

1758
01:05:53,884 --> 01:05:55,440
that everyone wants to hear from me:

1759
01:05:55,920 --> 01:05:57,200
Potatoe bugs!

1760
01:05:57,440 --> 01:05:58,800
we'll only survive

1761
01:05:58,960 --> 01:06:00,600
the coming crises together?

1762
01:06:01,360 --> 01:06:03,276
We've just been thinking

1763
01:06:03,360 --> 01:06:04,880
what to do with the water tanks

1764
01:06:05,000 --> 01:06:08,000
they might be useful for a street blockade

1765
01:06:08,680 --> 01:06:09,920
but the police

1766
01:06:10,160 --> 01:06:11,600
would simply run them out

1767
01:06:13,520 --> 01:06:14,440
On this day

1768
01:06:14,600 --> 01:06:16,200
we harvest 90 kg of potatoes

1769
01:06:16,880 --> 01:06:18,440
Proudly, I heave my share

1770
01:06:21,040 --> 01:06:22,200
6 kilo!

1771
01:06:22,520 --> 01:06:23,840
That's how I get through the year!

1772
01:06:24,760 --> 01:06:26,240
It was really nice today!

1773
01:06:26,760 --> 01:06:28,920
Yes, really good.

1774
01:06:29,320 --> 01:06:30,000
November:

1775
01:06:31,440 --> 01:06:33,356
the protests against the new city highway

1776
01:06:33,440 --> 01:06:34,560
come to a head

1777
01:06:35,520 --> 01:06:36,276
Everyone does

1778
01:06:36,360 --> 01:06:37,240
what they do best:

1779
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:38,076
Lud-will-ig

1780
01:06:38,160 --> 01:06:39,397
willfully wants to

1781
01:06:39,480 --> 01:06:40,040
pave over Hirschstetten

1782
01:06:40,124 --> 01:06:41,596
Joe has composed a protest anthem

1783
01:06:41,680 --> 01:06:43,000
dedicated to Vienna's Mayor

1784
01:06:43,120 --> 01:06:43,880
Lud-will-ig

1785
01:06:43,964 --> 01:06:44,960
willfully wants to

1786
01:06:45,160 --> 01:06:48,160
undermine Lobau forest

1787
01:06:48,480 --> 01:06:50,720
pull the heavy goods traffic

1788
01:06:52,320 --> 01:06:53,640
During a bike protest ride

1789
01:06:53,760 --> 01:06:55,960
I meet the actor Robert Stadlober

1790
01:06:56,480 --> 01:06:58,400
He declares, in complete earnest

1791
01:06:59,000 --> 01:07:00,837
that he'd love to play the role

1792
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:02,600
of a highway interchange

1793
01:07:02,800 --> 01:07:03,560
How does he actually feel?

1794
01:07:03,760 --> 01:07:05,240
We zoom in really far

1795
01:07:05,680 --> 01:07:07,240
and you explain little by little

1796
01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:08,360
Who am I?

1797
01:07:08,520 --> 01:07:09,240
like a

1798
01:07:09,760 --> 01:07:12,117
knot of pretzels made of concrete

1799
01:07:12,200 --> 01:07:12,880
I lie there

1800
01:07:13,040 --> 01:07:14,400
on my walls...

1801
01:07:15,000 --> 01:07:16,117
sprayers spray

1802
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:19,200
Together, we develop a series of animations

1803
01:07:19,600 --> 01:07:20,280
illustrating how

1804
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,200
the most beautiful recreational areas

1805
01:07:22,284 --> 01:07:22,680
of Vienna

1806
01:07:22,840 --> 01:07:25,080
are being sacrificed for motorised freedom

1807
01:07:25,560 --> 01:07:28,120
What would the Danube Canal be without me?

1808
01:07:28,960 --> 01:07:31,640
A generic recreational area

1809
01:07:32,120 --> 01:07:33,080
without character!

1810
01:07:33,960 --> 01:07:36,560
Who am I?

1811
01:07:36,720 --> 01:07:38,400
Interchange Nussdorf

1812
01:07:39,440 --> 01:07:40,280
But on the weekends

1813
01:07:40,960 --> 01:07:42,080
I retreat to the countryside

1814
01:07:42,560 --> 01:07:44,160
Michi pays my train tickets

1815
01:07:45,120 --> 01:07:46,800
I do my best to look like a gardener

1816
01:07:47,080 --> 01:07:48,800
press home-made apple juice

1817
01:07:49,360 --> 01:07:50,720
to reconcile climate campaigning

1818
01:07:50,840 --> 01:07:52,800
with second home ownership

1819
01:07:55,320 --> 01:07:56,517
We're about to park away

1820
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:57,640
our convertible for the winter

1821
01:07:57,880 --> 01:07:59,200
but then there's an invitation

1822
01:07:59,440 --> 01:08:01,280
to demonstrate in front of the Social Democratic Party headquarters

1823
01:08:01,960 --> 01:08:03,560
I'm supposed to give a speech!

1824
01:08:04,080 --> 01:08:05,080
Now is the time

1825
01:08:05,200 --> 01:08:06,680
to get over my fears and anxieties

1826
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:07,720
Wanna say somthing?

1827
01:08:07,880 --> 01:08:09,480
I rehearse with Hanna

1828
01:08:09,920 --> 01:08:10,840
she's very encouraging

1829
01:08:11,480 --> 01:08:12,520
“You’ll get there!”

1830
01:08:12,920 --> 01:08:14,360
Private transportation

1831
01:08:14,560 --> 01:08:16,120
Private transportation

1832
01:08:16,360 --> 01:08:17,360
which your party...

1833
01:08:17,560 --> 01:08:19,600
I feel we should call him

1834
01:08:19,880 --> 01:08:22,880
"climate change adaptation councilman"

1835
01:08:23,360 --> 01:08:25,080
A real climate councilman

1836
01:08:25,200 --> 01:08:26,640
should be a leader in the fight

1837
01:08:26,724 --> 01:08:27,480
for mobility transition

1838
01:08:28,000 --> 01:08:29,560
And take a stand against

1839
01:08:29,644 --> 01:08:31,440
the councilwoman for mobility

1840
01:08:31,560 --> 01:08:33,240
when she talks about

1841
01:08:33,400 --> 01:08:35,560
"upholding the rights of motorists"

1842
01:08:36,520 --> 01:08:38,637
Things I've always wanted to do

1843
01:08:38,720 --> 01:08:40,200
but never dared:

1844
01:08:41,000 --> 01:08:42,280
to give a flaming speech

1845
01:08:42,364 --> 01:08:43,480
at a demonstration

1846
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:44,400
Check.

1847
01:08:44,680 --> 01:08:46,877
...and cementing in a mobility concept

1848
01:08:46,960 --> 01:08:48,600
for decades to come

1849
01:08:54,520 --> 01:08:55,800
Alright, the convertible season is over!

1850
01:08:55,884 --> 01:08:56,877
A few days later

1851
01:08:56,960 --> 01:08:59,200
the Green Party's Minister of Transportion declares

1852
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:00,200
The Lobau Highway

1853
01:09:00,284 --> 01:09:01,040
and the tunnel going

1854
01:09:01,124 --> 01:09:02,960
directly through the nature reservation

1855
01:09:03,044 --> 01:09:04,080
will not be built!

1856
01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:05,400
Long live Leonore!

1857
01:09:05,880 --> 01:09:06,680
Long live Leonore!

1858
01:09:06,920 --> 01:09:08,157
Are you happy? Great day, right?

1859
01:09:08,240 --> 01:09:08,800
We celebrate

1860
01:09:08,884 --> 01:09:09,880
this first big victory

1861
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:11,240
at the christmas market

1862
01:09:11,324 --> 01:09:12,280
eerily empty, thanks to Corona

1863
01:09:12,440 --> 01:09:13,760
in front of the town hall

1864
01:09:14,720 --> 01:09:15,757
all that remains to be done

1865
01:09:15,840 --> 01:09:17,160
is to convince the Mayor of Vienna

1866
01:09:17,680 --> 01:09:19,280
that a cancelled highway means

1867
01:09:19,520 --> 01:09:20,640
we also don't need to build

1868
01:09:20,724 --> 01:09:22,000
the highway connection roads

1869
01:09:22,600 --> 01:09:24,640
People, we need to get onto the barricades

1870
01:09:24,760 --> 01:09:26,000
because it works!

1871
01:09:26,240 --> 01:09:27,717
Lobau, Lobau, Lobau?

1872
01:09:27,800 --> 01:09:29,280
Will stay, stay, stay!

1873
01:09:29,600 --> 01:09:31,840
And hopefully for ever!

1874
01:09:32,240 --> 01:09:33,760
Thanks to all of you for coming!

1875
01:09:34,040 --> 01:09:37,040
Let's get out of our cars

1876
01:09:37,280 --> 01:09:39,920
let's get into the Lobau forest...

1877
01:09:40,080 --> 01:09:40,840
At this point

1878
01:09:40,924 --> 01:09:41,680
I'm thinking:

1879
01:09:42,040 --> 01:09:43,280
what a success-story

1880
01:09:43,400 --> 01:09:45,440
this could be the climax of my film

1881
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:47,397
everything else is just

1882
01:09:47,480 --> 01:09:48,960
banal coping with everyday life

1883
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:52,197
But then

1884
01:09:52,280 --> 01:09:53,957
I get another opportunity

1885
01:09:54,040 --> 01:09:55,200
to burn money:

1886
01:09:56,360 --> 01:09:56,960
December

1887
01:09:57,480 --> 01:09:58,597
As a participant in the

1888
01:09:58,680 --> 01:09:59,960
"Ecocide" group exhibition

1889
01:10:00,120 --> 01:10:01,637
I present a simple method

1890
01:10:01,720 --> 01:10:02,637
for installing a sandpit

1891
01:10:02,720 --> 01:10:04,080
in front of your door:

1892
01:10:04,440 --> 01:10:06,520
just repurpose a convertible

1893
01:10:06,640 --> 01:10:07,877
...the things you have to do

1894
01:10:07,960 --> 01:10:10,000
to give this space back to kids

1895
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:10,917
They're also rescued

1896
01:10:11,000 --> 01:10:11,797
but not from the garbage...

1897
01:10:11,880 --> 01:10:13,880
David hosts a garbage-bin buffet

1898
01:10:14,040 --> 01:10:15,440
Mmh, a cherry-chocolate-cake

1899
01:10:15,680 --> 01:10:17,360
...keep your minimum distance

1900
01:10:18,400 --> 01:10:19,600
I bought CO2-Certificates

1901
01:10:19,720 --> 01:10:20,880
for 10 euros

1902
01:10:21,040 --> 01:10:21,880
to compensate

1903
01:10:22,080 --> 01:10:23,397
As an opening performance

1904
01:10:23,480 --> 01:10:25,480
I literally carbonise my artist's fee

1905
01:10:25,680 --> 01:10:26,640
we'd actually like to

1906
01:10:26,760 --> 01:10:27,317
make sure we

1907
01:10:27,400 --> 01:10:28,840
don't hit any climate tipping points

1908
01:10:29,040 --> 01:10:29,880
but first of all

1909
01:10:30,000 --> 01:10:30,840
we need to ensure

1910
01:10:30,960 --> 01:10:31,720
that the economy recovers

1911
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:32,480
after Corona

1912
01:10:32,600 --> 01:10:33,040
Then, perhaps...

1913
01:10:33,160 --> 01:10:36,160
I'm not too good with handling fossil fuels

1914
01:10:39,160 --> 01:10:40,640
you always carry that with you

1915
01:10:40,800 --> 01:10:41,680
in case there's some money that needs burning

1916
01:10:41,960 --> 01:10:43,637
but happily Osvaldo, the in-house technician

1917
01:10:43,720 --> 01:10:45,840
always has an extra bunsen-burner with him

1918
01:10:47,520 --> 01:10:48,437
Standing in the first row

1919
01:10:48,520 --> 01:10:49,880
and taking pictures is David

1920
01:10:50,640 --> 01:10:51,637
But after the performance

1921
01:10:51,720 --> 01:10:52,560
he's gone

1922
01:10:53,080 --> 01:10:54,480
And I get a text message:

1923
01:10:55,080 --> 01:10:56,720
"Bro, that was real money.

1924
01:10:57,080 --> 01:10:58,320
You could have donated it"

1925
01:10:59,200 --> 01:11:00,357
He tells me he no longer

1926
01:11:00,440 --> 01:11:01,680
wants to appear in my film

1927
01:11:01,800 --> 01:11:02,917
...come back again

1928
01:11:03,000 --> 01:11:03,957
and we'll talk about it

1929
01:11:04,040 --> 01:11:05,640
I thought, you knew about it

1930
01:11:05,880 --> 01:11:06,437
But...

1931
01:11:06,520 --> 01:11:08,320
you signed a contract

1932
01:11:08,520 --> 01:11:10,800
I can't just let you get out now...

1933
01:11:12,080 --> 01:11:12,957
I can't do that, or?

1934
01:11:13,040 --> 01:11:14,680
Nooooo...

1935
01:11:14,920 --> 01:11:15,400
Beautiful!

1936
01:11:15,600 --> 01:11:16,600
Looking at it now

1937
01:11:16,684 --> 01:11:17,400
this performance

1938
01:11:17,484 --> 01:11:18,880
was probably the tipping point

1939
01:11:20,120 --> 01:11:20,600
Bravo!

1940
01:11:21,560 --> 01:11:23,640
If I had bought myself a small car...

1941
01:11:23,800 --> 01:11:25,400
I had often boasted publicly

1942
01:11:25,520 --> 01:11:28,000
about burning my director's fee

1943
01:11:28,200 --> 01:11:29,360
...you can't do that

1944
01:11:29,720 --> 01:11:30,760
you could do so much good with it

1945
01:11:30,960 --> 01:11:32,160
it was quite a liberation

1946
01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:32,920
but only now

1947
01:11:33,080 --> 01:11:34,000
did I really have a story

1948
01:11:35,000 --> 01:11:36,037
a few days later

1949
01:11:36,120 --> 01:11:37,160
I hear from Judith

1950
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:38,760
on the brink of losing her nerves

1951
01:11:39,400 --> 01:11:41,160
I burnt my director's fee

1952
01:11:41,440 --> 01:11:42,800
The social media department

1953
01:11:42,884 --> 01:11:45,120
shared the videos of my money burn

1954
01:11:45,520 --> 01:11:46,840
leading to heated debates

1955
01:11:46,924 --> 01:11:48,120
amongst the TV board members

1956
01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:49,560
There was already talk

1957
01:11:49,720 --> 01:11:51,160
of ousting the director of documentaries

1958
01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:52,840
with a no-confidence vote

1959
01:11:53,320 --> 01:11:54,200
You have no idea

1960
01:11:54,284 --> 01:11:55,237
what I'm currently having to deal with

1961
01:11:55,320 --> 01:11:56,720
The director in question, Dr. Leitner

1962
01:11:57,280 --> 01:11:58,360
is all but furious

1963
01:11:58,920 --> 01:11:59,840
about what she calls

1964
01:12:00,040 --> 01:12:02,280
"mocking public art subsidies"

1965
01:12:02,440 --> 01:12:03,120
Burning tax money

1966
01:12:03,280 --> 01:12:04,320
has fatal effects!

1967
01:12:04,404 --> 01:12:05,277
she certainly has no intention

1968
01:12:05,360 --> 01:12:06,317
of loosing her job

1969
01:12:06,400 --> 01:12:08,320
to protect a wannabe-director

1970
01:12:08,560 --> 01:12:09,597
What were you guys thinking?

1971
01:12:09,680 --> 01:12:10,677
We didn't know...

1972
01:12:10,760 --> 01:12:11,840
Wasting 15.000 Euros?

1973
01:12:11,960 --> 01:12:12,640
We didn't know...

1974
01:12:12,960 --> 01:12:14,800
much higher sums were dumped for nothing

1975
01:12:15,040 --> 01:12:16,160
You have to understand...

1976
01:12:16,360 --> 01:12:17,920
But my ill-judged actions

1977
01:12:18,040 --> 01:12:20,400
would be a perfect excuse

1978
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:21,757
to cut funding

1979
01:12:21,840 --> 01:12:23,080
for truly critical documentaries

1980
01:12:23,800 --> 01:12:25,160
And guess which party

1981
01:12:25,320 --> 01:12:26,720
is going to jump onto the bandwagon

1982
01:12:27,080 --> 01:12:28,320
I want a solution by midday

1983
01:12:29,320 --> 01:12:31,800
Well, 15.000 Euros is actually not that much

1984
01:12:32,520 --> 01:12:34,080
I also don't think it's that radical

1985
01:12:34,240 --> 01:12:36,160
You've burnt taxpayer's money

1986
01:12:36,360 --> 01:12:37,520
Christoph, don't you get that?

1987
01:12:37,640 --> 01:12:38,560
I'm really sorry

1988
01:12:38,644 --> 01:12:39,720
how things went

1989
01:12:40,080 --> 01:12:42,000
We've already had this discussion

1990
01:12:42,280 --> 01:12:43,440
What we're going to do is this:

1991
01:12:43,640 --> 01:12:44,640
we say, it was toy money

1992
01:12:44,840 --> 01:12:45,680
Okay...

1993
01:12:45,880 --> 01:12:48,000
what if the burnt banknotes

1994
01:12:48,200 --> 01:12:49,800
were actually only toy money?

1995
01:12:50,560 --> 01:12:51,160
Ani asks

1996
01:12:51,360 --> 01:12:52,720
...the money to this NGO

1997
01:12:52,920 --> 01:12:53,720
Judith agrees:

1998
01:12:54,520 --> 01:12:56,640
Christoph only burnt toy money

1999
01:12:57,400 --> 01:12:59,240
and actually donated his director's fee!

2000
01:13:00,720 --> 01:13:01,920
I remain stubborn

2001
01:13:02,040 --> 01:13:03,797
How come I'm not allowed

2002
01:13:03,880 --> 01:13:04,880
to burn my own

2003
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:06,600
hard-earned money?

2004
01:13:06,920 --> 01:13:08,200
...and I'll also loose my

2005
01:13:08,360 --> 01:13:09,640
anti-capitalist reputation

2006
01:13:09,880 --> 01:13:11,400
I'll just be an activist clown

2007
01:13:12,120 --> 01:13:12,880
who burns toy money

2008
01:13:13,000 --> 01:13:13,560
Exactly!

2009
01:13:13,720 --> 01:13:15,640
You should have thought of that earlier!

2010
01:13:17,360 --> 01:13:18,157
The next day

2011
01:13:18,240 --> 01:13:19,320
I'm in Ani's office again

2012
01:13:20,200 --> 01:13:21,560
she appears way more relaxed

2013
01:13:21,680 --> 01:13:22,400
Thank you!

2014
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:24,160
comes with a peace offering

2015
01:13:24,960 --> 01:13:26,240
We've come up with an idea

2016
01:13:26,360 --> 01:13:28,120
we'll give you those 15,000 Euros

2017
01:13:28,440 --> 01:13:29,637
once more

2018
01:13:29,720 --> 01:13:31,800
so that you can actually donate them

2019
01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:33,160
but I'd like to ask you

2020
01:13:33,320 --> 01:13:34,760
not to burn them again

2021
01:13:34,920 --> 01:13:35,960
if possible

2022
01:13:36,440 --> 01:13:39,080
Any film- and photo-recordings published by me...

2023
01:13:39,200 --> 01:13:40,480
I sign a statement

2024
01:13:41,040 --> 01:13:42,840
Ani hands over a savings book

2025
01:13:43,360 --> 01:13:45,400
and then I'd donate the money

2026
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:47,760
to a climate-activist organiation

2027
01:13:48,000 --> 01:13:49,640
you'd have to donate it, exactly

2028
01:13:49,840 --> 01:13:50,520
- Exactly...
- Exactly!

2029
01:13:50,760 --> 01:13:51,480
Exactly...

2030
01:13:52,120 --> 01:13:54,280
The TV supervisory board is pacified

2031
01:13:55,600 --> 01:13:57,040
Somehow, I've managed

2032
01:13:57,480 --> 01:13:58,960
to conclude my money-free year

2033
01:13:59,044 --> 01:14:01,120
with a net gain of 120,000 euros

2034
01:14:02,080 --> 01:14:03,597
and I still get invited to

2035
01:14:03,680 --> 01:14:05,440
free drinks at the christmas market

2036
01:14:07,000 --> 01:14:08,280
I guess this is

2037
01:14:08,520 --> 01:14:10,760
what my self-experiment boils down to:

2038
01:14:12,120 --> 01:14:13,600
Money is as shy as a deer

2039
01:14:14,520 --> 01:14:16,440
a deer that always ran away from me

2040
01:14:17,960 --> 01:14:18,520
But now

2041
01:14:19,120 --> 01:14:20,560
that I've left the forest

2042
01:14:21,240 --> 01:14:22,800
it follows me whereever I go

2043
01:14:27,360 --> 01:14:29,440
quite okay, as always

2044
01:14:30,720 --> 01:14:32,840
funds are low, as always

2045
01:14:34,080 --> 01:14:35,280
To make good with David

2046
01:14:35,364 --> 01:14:37,320
I tell him most of the truth

2047
01:14:37,880 --> 01:14:38,880
Did I tell you

2048
01:14:39,040 --> 01:14:40,920
that I burnt a lot more in the summer?

2049
01:14:41,240 --> 01:14:42,440
after all this money burning

2050
01:14:42,560 --> 01:14:44,440
I'm doing really well, financially

2051
01:14:44,640 --> 01:14:46,117
so I've been thinking, we could make a deal

2052
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:49,200
and could support his association with 1500 Euros

2053
01:14:49,600 --> 01:14:51,120
but officially, let's say

2054
01:14:51,240 --> 01:14:52,840
I donated 15,000 Euros

2055
01:14:53,080 --> 01:14:54,240
Yes, let's do that

2056
01:14:54,520 --> 01:14:56,317
David and Joe are immediately on board

2057
01:14:56,400 --> 01:14:58,400
Donation for climate justice, perhaps...

2058
01:14:58,960 --> 01:15:00,800
15,000 or 150,000?

2059
01:15:00,920 --> 01:15:03,200
150.000!

2060
01:15:03,480 --> 01:15:04,357
Two days later

2061
01:15:04,440 --> 01:15:06,120
we dress up for a press photo

2062
01:15:07,440 --> 01:15:08,960
the mixed-up decimal points on the cheque

2063
01:15:09,200 --> 01:15:10,360
Nobody will notice

2064
01:15:10,600 --> 01:15:11,560
Banana box!

2065
01:15:12,960 --> 01:15:14,520
Buy yourselves something nice!

2066
01:15:14,720 --> 01:15:15,440
Thanks...

2067
01:15:16,080 --> 01:15:18,157
...demand you to end the occupation

2068
01:15:18,240 --> 01:15:20,040
However, I do get a letter from a lawyer

2069
01:15:20,240 --> 01:15:21,037
you can't be asked...

2070
01:15:21,120 --> 01:15:22,080
threatening legal procedings

2071
01:15:22,240 --> 01:15:23,200
you aren't the occupation

2072
01:15:23,400 --> 01:15:24,840
against everyone involved in the occupation

2073
01:15:24,924 --> 01:15:26,240
of the construction sites

2074
01:15:26,324 --> 01:15:28,040
via a "collective liability"

2075
01:15:29,120 --> 01:15:30,720
The mayor of Vienna seems hell-bent

2076
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:33,280
on cementing in his highway-links

2077
01:15:33,364 --> 01:15:34,680
roads to nowhere

2078
01:15:34,880 --> 01:15:37,037
this is a public announcement:

2079
01:15:37,120 --> 01:15:38,800
I hereby explicitly distance myself

2080
01:15:38,920 --> 01:15:40,640
from any occupation of this construction site

2081
01:15:40,920 --> 01:15:42,360
I immediately make my way to Hirschstetten

2082
01:15:42,480 --> 01:15:43,280
and distance myself

2083
01:15:43,480 --> 01:15:45,000
...not about a highway link

2084
01:15:45,320 --> 01:15:46,480
between the Seestadt district and a main highway

2085
01:15:46,880 --> 01:15:48,680
it's a completely normal local road

2086
01:15:49,160 --> 01:15:50,280
where you're not allowed

2087
01:15:50,364 --> 01:15:52,160
to drive faster than 50 km/h

2088
01:15:52,520 --> 01:15:54,440
the 7000 new flats in the northern part of Seestadt

2089
01:15:54,640 --> 01:15:56,720
of course need a connection

2090
01:15:56,804 --> 01:15:58,720
to the national road grid

2091
01:15:58,920 --> 01:16:00,400
because from the moment

2092
01:16:00,680 --> 01:16:02,200
people buy a washing machine

2093
01:16:02,440 --> 01:16:03,600
or order a kitchen

2094
01:16:03,800 --> 01:16:05,400
they obviously depend on their cars

2095
01:16:05,520 --> 01:16:07,400
and on good roads

2096
01:16:07,600 --> 01:16:10,240
Yes, there is a man-made climate crisis

2097
01:16:10,600 --> 01:16:12,920
But we won't stop it in Vienna!

2098
01:16:13,200 --> 01:16:14,840
Subversive affirmation

2099
01:16:15,200 --> 01:16:16,560
always a great go-to strategy

2100
01:16:17,000 --> 01:16:19,160
my views and likes go through the roof

2101
01:16:19,640 --> 01:16:21,160
You can't transport a washing machine

2102
01:16:21,360 --> 01:16:22,600
on the U2 underground

2103
01:16:24,280 --> 01:16:25,117
On the way home

2104
01:16:25,200 --> 01:16:26,840
I'm caught without a ticket on the underground

2105
01:16:27,440 --> 01:16:28,440
To avoid paying a fine

2106
01:16:28,524 --> 01:16:30,720
I suggest various creative compensations

2107
01:16:31,240 --> 01:16:32,800
A debt collection agency is already on the case

2108
01:16:34,160 --> 01:16:35,600
I dismantle our doorbell

2109
01:16:36,120 --> 01:16:37,120
I really don't care anymore

2110
01:16:37,280 --> 01:16:39,440
so long as I can stall the payment until next year

2111
01:16:40,000 --> 01:16:40,960
Likewise, merry Christmas!

2112
01:16:41,120 --> 01:16:42,800
And then it's finally over

2113
01:16:43,960 --> 01:16:45,880
my long year without money

2114
01:16:46,000 --> 01:16:47,357
1-week vacation voucher

2115
01:16:47,440 --> 01:16:48,840
for Michaela, Christoph, Ferris, Rosa

2116
01:16:49,040 --> 01:16:49,920
Monaco!

2117
01:16:51,520 --> 01:16:52,480
Granny Jana!

2118
01:16:52,564 --> 01:16:53,957
Last year we went riding!

2119
01:16:54,040 --> 01:16:55,960
We want Formula 1 in Monaco!

2120
01:16:56,720 --> 01:16:57,640
On new year's eve

2121
01:16:57,724 --> 01:16:58,960
we play WHO AM I

2122
01:16:59,560 --> 01:17:00,760
I'm Scrooge McDuck

2123
01:17:01,320 --> 01:17:03,160
It takes me only one round to guess

2124
01:17:03,840 --> 01:17:05,120
22!

2125
01:17:06,200 --> 01:17:07,480
The money-free year ends

2126
01:17:07,564 --> 01:17:09,200
in a most unspectacular manner

2127
01:17:10,160 --> 01:17:11,040
just like it began:

2128
01:17:11,840 --> 01:17:13,440
watching other people's fireworks

2129
01:17:16,960 --> 01:17:19,960
Then, I reenter the world of money

2130
01:17:24,160 --> 01:17:25,677
On the second of January

2131
01:17:25,760 --> 01:17:27,400
I cash in the TV money on the savings book

2132
01:17:27,920 --> 01:17:29,960
my new slush fund

2133
01:17:30,920 --> 01:17:32,000
That's where it gets heavy.

2134
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:34,120
I buy myself a new computer for video editing

2135
01:17:34,800 --> 01:17:36,240
An indispensible tool

2136
01:17:36,324 --> 01:17:37,317
for completing my film?

2137
01:17:37,400 --> 01:17:38,560
or rather a rebound-effect

2138
01:17:39,280 --> 01:17:40,800
because I've saved so much money?

2139
01:17:42,960 --> 01:17:44,400
Chock-full supermarket shelves

2140
01:17:44,484 --> 01:17:45,360
are too much for me to handle

2141
01:17:47,080 --> 01:17:48,477
It takes me a few weeks

2142
01:17:48,560 --> 01:17:49,800
to surpress my memories

2143
01:17:49,920 --> 01:17:51,480
of rooms stuffed with garbage

2144
01:17:52,600 --> 01:17:53,560
Can I still wear this?

2145
01:17:55,600 --> 01:17:56,400
Over the last year

2146
01:17:56,484 --> 01:17:57,560
I kind of turned into a hobo

2147
01:17:57,960 --> 01:17:59,480
but I just can't bring myself

2148
01:17:59,600 --> 01:18:01,120
to buy new clothes

2149
01:18:01,400 --> 01:18:02,720
A lot of people come with this problem

2150
01:18:02,840 --> 01:18:03,360
Ok!

2151
01:18:03,444 --> 01:18:04,520
Couldn't a seamstress

2152
01:18:04,680 --> 01:18:06,120
use my worn polo-shirts

2153
01:18:06,204 --> 01:18:07,400
and torn protest t-shirts

2154
01:18:08,000 --> 01:18:09,640
to design a new collection?

2155
01:18:09,840 --> 01:18:10,840
...don't you think?

2156
01:18:11,000 --> 01:18:11,920
Or a bag, here

2157
01:18:12,004 --> 01:18:12,720
with this frog!

2158
01:18:14,160 --> 01:18:15,360
Three weeks later

2159
01:18:15,444 --> 01:18:17,520
I try on my new, old clothes

2160
01:18:18,680 --> 01:18:20,160
I feel so grateful to Ulya

2161
01:18:20,320 --> 01:18:21,120
you've saved me!

2162
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:22,680
I could have paid here three times as much

2163
01:18:24,360 --> 01:18:25,040
Lobau must remain!

2164
01:18:25,760 --> 01:18:27,117
But they...

2165
01:18:27,200 --> 01:18:28,640
they have again...

2166
01:18:29,400 --> 01:18:30,880
or not, I mean...

2167
01:18:30,964 --> 01:18:31,960
Highway?

2168
01:18:34,520 --> 01:18:36,120
On a tuesday, mid-february

2169
01:18:36,440 --> 01:18:38,160
the construction sites are sparsely occupied

2170
01:18:39,200 --> 01:18:40,160
The police arrives

2171
01:18:40,244 --> 01:18:41,440
with a special-command unit

2172
01:18:41,680 --> 01:18:43,040
The nearby underground station

2173
01:18:43,124 --> 01:18:43,840
is shut down

2174
01:18:45,480 --> 01:18:46,680
there's tension in the air

2175
01:18:47,320 --> 01:18:48,720
the police are nervous

2176
01:18:48,920 --> 01:18:49,680
Lud-will-ig

2177
01:18:49,764 --> 01:18:50,640
willfully wants to

2178
01:18:50,724 --> 01:18:51,920
undermine Lobau forest

2179
01:18:52,080 --> 01:18:53,600
Some activists have chained themselves

2180
01:18:53,684 --> 01:18:54,800
to the inside of the pyramid

2181
01:18:55,600 --> 01:18:57,000
and are able to delay clearance

2182
01:18:57,084 --> 01:18:58,600
by at least a few hours

2183
01:18:59,000 --> 01:19:00,720
You are not alone!

2184
01:19:01,320 --> 01:19:02,476
As the digger approaches

2185
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:03,400
to tear it down

2186
01:19:03,640 --> 01:19:05,720
everyone holds up their phones

2187
01:19:07,800 --> 01:19:09,800
the images of the pyramid being wrecked

2188
01:19:10,400 --> 01:19:11,720
have something iconic

2189
01:19:12,680 --> 01:19:13,800
they stand for something bigger

2190
01:19:15,480 --> 01:19:17,400
I can't stop watching them again and again

2191
01:19:18,560 --> 01:19:20,400
especially backwards

2192
01:19:32,440 --> 01:19:34,317
super funny, that a film-director

2193
01:19:34,400 --> 01:19:36,440
that a film-director was fooled by actors

2194
01:19:36,840 --> 01:19:38,680
In a group meeting amongst ourselves

2195
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:40,040
Catalina confesses to having encountered

2196
01:19:40,124 --> 01:19:41,676
some serious contradictions

2197
01:19:41,760 --> 01:19:43,560
in her editing process

2198
01:19:44,720 --> 01:19:46,440
They say they can't really

2199
01:19:46,524 --> 01:19:48,036
put on a real internet-strike

2200
01:19:48,120 --> 01:19:49,840
because it's their job to be visible

2201
01:19:50,080 --> 01:19:51,160
Her co-protagonists

2202
01:19:51,560 --> 01:19:53,040
her acting friends

2203
01:19:53,840 --> 01:19:55,720
only pretended to be on an internet-strike

2204
01:19:56,040 --> 01:19:57,400
It seems I'm the only one

2205
01:19:57,484 --> 01:19:59,600
who went for a real internet-strike

2206
01:20:00,040 --> 01:20:01,920
Lisa, who is finally allowed to talk again

2207
01:20:02,400 --> 01:20:04,316
says she'd like to reenact

2208
01:20:04,400 --> 01:20:06,840
and film her nightmares

2209
01:20:07,400 --> 01:20:08,476
Because otherwise...

2210
01:20:08,560 --> 01:20:10,040
it's totally boring

2211
01:20:10,280 --> 01:20:11,640
I can show it to you

2212
01:20:11,760 --> 01:20:14,760
Rafael hints at the rather speculative nature

2213
01:20:14,920 --> 01:20:16,920
of his "edible city"

2214
01:20:17,160 --> 01:20:18,840
...those weren't real leather shoes

2215
01:20:19,960 --> 01:20:21,800
no-one's going to believe that anymore

2216
01:20:21,960 --> 01:20:23,320
The trick is the frying

2217
01:20:23,440 --> 01:20:24,196
you always think

2218
01:20:24,280 --> 01:20:25,400
anything that's fried is edible

2219
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:27,520
with ketchup

2220
01:20:28,520 --> 01:20:29,680
What if we proposed

2221
01:20:29,764 --> 01:20:32,480
a concept change to ORF television?

2222
01:20:32,920 --> 01:20:34,080
suggests Catalina

2223
01:20:34,240 --> 01:20:35,640
...a mockumentary

2224
01:20:35,760 --> 01:20:36,520
What if:

2225
01:20:36,604 --> 01:20:39,440
our films were "autofictional self-experiments"?

2226
01:20:39,560 --> 01:20:41,840
...this is actually not a real documentary

2227
01:20:42,120 --> 01:20:43,760
While the group warms up

2228
01:20:43,960 --> 01:20:46,960
to a "contemporary approach to truth"

2229
01:20:48,080 --> 01:20:49,680
I suddenly see the light:

2230
01:20:50,640 --> 01:20:52,760
if I presented my film as a mockumentary

2231
01:20:53,320 --> 01:20:54,280
a fake documentary

2232
01:20:54,840 --> 01:20:57,000
and could thus - as opposed to my collegues

2233
01:20:57,600 --> 01:21:00,040
tell the true story of my year?

2234
01:21:00,360 --> 01:21:01,800
Christoph, what about you?

2235
01:21:02,400 --> 01:21:03,720
Yes, well...

2236
01:21:05,000 --> 01:21:08,000
it's making me think, hearing you

2237
01:21:08,200 --> 01:21:09,440
that it could be a possibility

2238
01:21:09,960 --> 01:21:11,917
Could I pack all those rather unsavoury moments -

2239
01:21:12,000 --> 01:21:12,680
such as

2240
01:21:12,880 --> 01:21:13,640
my weekend house

2241
01:21:14,000 --> 01:21:15,320
the Czech counterfeit money

2242
01:21:15,600 --> 01:21:16,880
my falling out with Dr. Leitner

2243
01:21:17,600 --> 01:21:19,080
my dubious moral standing

2244
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:21,000
as a publicly funded climate activist

2245
01:21:21,320 --> 01:21:24,000
who makes everyone work for free

2246
01:21:24,480 --> 01:21:26,080
Could I pack them into my film?

2247
01:21:26,240 --> 01:21:28,240
I can imagine they'd be up for it

2248
01:21:28,324 --> 01:21:29,957
especially if the four of us come together

2249
01:21:30,040 --> 01:21:30,840
and say we all want it

2250
01:21:31,000 --> 01:21:31,920
I rework my script

2251
01:21:32,004 --> 01:21:33,157
and send it to Judith

2252
01:21:33,240 --> 01:21:34,560
who is highly amused

2253
01:21:35,440 --> 01:21:36,640
She calls it a

2254
01:21:36,760 --> 01:21:40,480
"creative firework of highly original meta-rockets"

2255
01:21:41,160 --> 01:21:44,160
in fact it's just the naked truth

2256
01:21:44,760 --> 01:21:46,200
This is a bit hard to explain, but...

2257
01:21:46,360 --> 01:21:48,360
Because I claim that

2258
01:21:48,720 --> 01:21:50,920
it was not real money in our bonfire

2259
01:21:51,160 --> 01:21:53,237
The legally problematic moments of my self-experiment

2260
01:21:53,320 --> 01:21:55,560
which are of course the most exciting ones

2261
01:21:56,240 --> 01:21:59,240
now need to be reenacted for my camera

2262
01:21:59,720 --> 01:22:02,360
I want to pay George for this extra work

2263
01:22:02,920 --> 01:22:04,720
but he categorically refuses

2264
01:22:05,520 --> 01:22:07,840
I think it just doesn't fit with the project

2265
01:22:08,080 --> 01:22:10,280
We rent the same appartment in Prague

2266
01:22:11,160 --> 01:22:12,480
My old friend Jiri

2267
01:22:12,800 --> 01:22:15,040
actually resembles the original Euro-Pizza delivery guy

2268
01:22:16,760 --> 01:22:18,037
The role of Dr. Leitner

2269
01:22:18,120 --> 01:22:19,680
is played by an actress

2270
01:22:20,680 --> 01:22:22,837
Ani insists on renacting herself

2271
01:22:22,920 --> 01:22:24,400
during the money-handover

2272
01:22:24,960 --> 01:22:26,080
totally over the top

2273
01:22:26,164 --> 01:22:27,960
in a parking garage

2274
01:22:28,480 --> 01:22:29,120
here you are

2275
01:22:29,360 --> 01:22:30,960
And if even my very own story

2276
01:22:31,160 --> 01:22:33,317
is spoken by an actor

2277
01:22:33,400 --> 01:22:35,160
if you need an offvoice

2278
01:22:35,440 --> 01:22:36,680
who wants to feel less guilty

2279
01:22:37,240 --> 01:22:40,000
for his countless short-distance flights

2280
01:22:40,160 --> 01:22:42,800
Climate solidarity projects I do for nothing

2281
01:22:44,360 --> 01:22:45,520
I mean: without money

2282
01:22:45,640 --> 01:22:46,160
then

2283
01:22:46,960 --> 01:22:48,840
No one will believe even one word

2284
01:22:51,480 --> 01:22:52,000
Yes!

2285
01:22:53,160 --> 01:22:53,480
Super!

2286
01:22:54,000 --> 01:22:56,160
Could you have a worse conscience?

2287
01:22:56,440 --> 01:22:56,720
Yes

2288
01:22:57,080 --> 01:22:59,000
I thought about the short-distance flights

2289
01:22:59,200 --> 01:23:01,120
because I don't actually fly short-distance

2290
01:23:01,240 --> 01:23:02,640
But is it okay to say that?

2291
01:23:03,760 --> 01:23:04,160
Yes

2292
01:23:04,640 --> 01:23:07,240
It probably lives up to the actor's cliché

2293
01:23:07,720 --> 01:23:09,800
my guilty conscience comes more from driving

2294
01:23:10,880 --> 01:23:13,880
I have one of those VW buses

2295
01:23:14,560 --> 01:23:15,880
Maybe I'll just say: “Minivan"

2296
01:23:16,160 --> 01:23:16,680
VW bus?

2297
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,117
The point is simply that it's clear

2298
01:23:20,200 --> 01:23:21,320
that it's all fake

2299
01:23:22,360 --> 01:23:23,277
The guilty conscience too?

2300
01:23:23,360 --> 01:23:23,840
Yes!

2301
01:23:23,924 --> 01:23:25,036
No, that's real!

2302
01:23:25,120 --> 01:23:25,640
Okay!

2303
01:23:26,120 --> 01:23:27,120
Well...

2304
01:23:29,000 --> 01:23:30,237
The next months highlight

2305
01:23:30,320 --> 01:23:32,520
how quickly activist credentials

2306
01:23:32,640 --> 01:23:33,600
can be converted into cash:

2307
01:23:34,920 --> 01:23:36,597
my backwards video

2308
01:23:36,680 --> 01:23:38,280
of the pyramid's destruction

2309
01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:39,840
wins an art prize

2310
01:23:41,280 --> 01:23:42,680
my banknote-prints

2311
01:23:42,764 --> 01:23:44,280
rally on the art-market

2312
01:23:44,480 --> 01:23:45,200
2 out of 40

2313
01:23:45,920 --> 01:23:48,520
gallery owner Lena has already found a collector

2314
01:23:48,920 --> 01:23:50,840
willing to pay 650 euros

2315
01:23:51,280 --> 01:23:52,240
if you need more...

2316
01:23:53,120 --> 01:23:55,276
I can also buy them back from my friends

2317
01:23:55,360 --> 01:23:56,080
Lena argues

2318
01:23:56,720 --> 01:23:58,157
subversive artistic practises

2319
01:23:58,240 --> 01:24:00,440
deliver the best long-term returns

2320
01:24:00,680 --> 01:24:03,680
art that deals with socially critical themes and activism...

2321
01:24:04,080 --> 01:24:05,480
Suddenly, my protests

2322
01:24:05,564 --> 01:24:07,200
turn into "works"

2323
01:24:08,040 --> 01:24:10,320
and get exhibited in a hip gallery space

2324
01:24:10,404 --> 01:24:12,720
I call the exhibition "cute sabotage"

2325
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:13,840
It still paid off for me!

2326
01:24:13,924 --> 01:24:14,837
I painted that!

2327
01:24:14,920 --> 01:24:17,240
This time, the air for the innocent party-ballons

2328
01:24:18,000 --> 01:24:19,840
was really extracted from the tires

2329
01:24:20,040 --> 01:24:21,480
of local weapons of mass destruction

2330
01:24:22,160 --> 01:24:23,236
A ballon filled with air, one tire

2331
01:24:23,320 --> 01:24:24,000
you don't notice!

2332
01:24:24,480 --> 01:24:25,356
but the sensor notice!

2333
01:24:25,440 --> 01:24:26,000
No!

2334
01:24:28,280 --> 01:24:29,360
Big bike protest!

2335
01:24:29,640 --> 01:24:30,480
Next friday!

2336
01:24:30,720 --> 01:24:32,320
This here is a disaster

2337
01:24:32,800 --> 01:24:34,880
3-4 lanes for cars

2338
01:24:35,000 --> 01:24:35,680
this is a highway

2339
01:24:36,480 --> 01:24:37,880
the next protest bike ride

2340
01:24:38,000 --> 01:24:39,440
on the central Ring-Road

2341
01:24:39,720 --> 01:24:40,920
should be really big

2342
01:24:41,280 --> 01:24:42,400
we mobilize a lot

2343
01:24:42,560 --> 01:24:43,316
a second protest ride

2344
01:24:43,400 --> 01:24:44,160
like a critical mass

2345
01:24:44,560 --> 01:24:45,600
We've got to tell people:

2346
01:24:45,720 --> 01:24:47,440
we urgently need a transformation

2347
01:24:49,400 --> 01:24:50,680
Nonetheless, 30 minutes prior to departure

2348
01:24:50,764 --> 01:24:51,837
I'm still waiting on my own

2349
01:24:51,920 --> 01:24:52,880
at the meeting point

2350
01:24:54,080 --> 01:24:55,197
It's on the Gürtel road today

2351
01:24:55,280 --> 01:24:56,480
Last year, we never managed

2352
01:24:56,600 --> 01:24:58,720
to mobilise more than 200 people

2353
01:24:59,160 --> 01:25:00,556
Every first Friday of the month!

2354
01:25:00,640 --> 01:25:01,560
But it soon becomes clear:

2355
01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:03,880
today, we are really many

2356
01:25:06,280 --> 01:25:07,480
Today, no-one can claim

2357
01:25:08,080 --> 01:25:09,236
that cycling in the city

2358
01:25:09,320 --> 01:25:10,160
is just a hobby

2359
01:25:11,960 --> 01:25:13,120
All our efforts

2360
01:25:13,680 --> 01:25:14,800
have been rewarded after all

2361
01:25:15,120 --> 01:25:16,240
Werner, you've won a book!

2362
01:25:21,080 --> 01:25:21,800
After the protest

2363
01:25:21,884 --> 01:25:22,720
I'm in party-mood

2364
01:25:22,880 --> 01:25:23,920
It's a super nice event

2365
01:25:24,080 --> 01:25:24,920
David remains earnest

2366
01:25:25,760 --> 01:25:27,120
Totally different things

2367
01:25:27,280 --> 01:25:29,640
would need to happen, he says

2368
01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:30,880
to bring the masses onto the streets

2369
01:25:31,040 --> 01:25:32,200
Maybe people will take to the streets

2370
01:25:32,360 --> 01:25:34,157
but only, when there's no more clean water

2371
01:25:34,240 --> 01:25:35,280
coming out of the taps

2372
01:25:36,040 --> 01:25:37,600
to bring more people onto the street

2373
01:25:37,720 --> 01:25:38,437
As we pack up

2374
01:25:38,520 --> 01:25:39,320
I ask David

2375
01:25:39,760 --> 01:25:41,560
what "different things" he's thinking of

2376
01:25:41,680 --> 01:25:42,917
That sounded like a plan

2377
01:25:43,000 --> 01:25:44,160
Before we slide into social collapse

2378
01:25:44,280 --> 01:25:45,680
He eyes me sadly

2379
01:25:47,560 --> 01:25:49,840
the Vienna forest would need to burn

2380
01:25:50,480 --> 01:25:52,000
Maybe it can be done

2381
01:25:52,084 --> 01:25:53,716
when there aren't that many animals

2382
01:25:53,800 --> 01:25:55,600
staying in the forest

2383
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:01,516
At the "Days of Transformation"

2384
01:26:01,600 --> 01:26:02,640
in the Melk Abbey

2385
01:26:02,880 --> 01:26:04,840
we're mobility activists

2386
01:26:05,400 --> 01:26:06,960
on a work retreat

2387
01:26:07,760 --> 01:26:08,640
but in reality

2388
01:26:09,120 --> 01:26:10,957
we're thinking about arson

2389
01:26:11,040 --> 01:26:13,240
is it better if the catastrophe starts earlier

2390
01:26:13,360 --> 01:26:14,397
then we might still have

2391
01:26:14,480 --> 01:26:15,320
a better chance of reacting

2392
01:26:15,680 --> 01:26:16,800
The logic is compelling

2393
01:26:16,884 --> 01:26:18,237
if we do nothing the next 20 years

2394
01:26:18,320 --> 01:26:18,840
it's all over anyway

2395
01:26:19,000 --> 01:26:20,840
It's pure escalation

2396
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:21,597
Yes, but...

2397
01:26:21,680 --> 01:26:24,680
To sacrifice the thing you're fighting for

2398
01:26:24,840 --> 01:26:26,560
But what does logic know about morals?

2399
01:26:27,320 --> 01:26:29,080
We can't end a world war

2400
01:26:29,640 --> 01:26:31,520
by being the ones who open fire

2401
01:26:35,160 --> 01:26:37,400
Realising this leaves us paralysed

2402
01:26:38,440 --> 01:26:39,640
Are we too nice

2403
01:26:39,724 --> 01:26:41,640
to enforce a transformation?

2404
01:26:41,960 --> 01:26:43,200
Yesterday night

2405
01:26:43,284 --> 01:26:44,960
200 firefighters

2406
01:26:45,080 --> 01:26:46,080
were already in action

2407
01:26:46,164 --> 01:26:46,917
in Reichenau an der Rax

2408
01:26:47,000 --> 01:26:49,080
And then the unthinkable happens

2409
01:26:50,520 --> 01:26:52,157
The forest is actually burning

2410
01:26:52,240 --> 01:26:53,560
According to the fire department

2411
01:26:53,644 --> 01:26:55,040
this is the biggest forest fire

2412
01:26:55,160 --> 01:26:56,600
ever witnessed in Austria

2413
01:26:56,800 --> 01:26:58,320
and there's no end in sight

2414
01:26:58,404 --> 01:26:59,280
for the firefighting efforts

2415
01:26:59,364 --> 01:27:00,717
Day 3 and the wildfire...

2416
01:27:00,800 --> 01:27:03,560
I spend the next days glued to the screens

2417
01:27:04,440 --> 01:27:06,440
waiting for the climate uprising

2418
01:27:07,880 --> 01:27:09,520
...so the firefighters

2419
01:27:09,640 --> 01:27:12,640
are barely able to reach the fire areas

2420
01:27:13,360 --> 01:27:14,440
But it soon becomes obvious

2421
01:27:15,200 --> 01:27:17,480
that even 100 hectars of burning forest

2422
01:27:17,920 --> 01:27:19,520
don't trigger any mass protests

2423
01:27:21,760 --> 01:27:23,560
Would one thousand hectars be enough?

2424
01:27:25,000 --> 01:27:26,040
Ten thousand?

2425
01:27:27,840 --> 01:27:28,720
What would it take

2426
01:27:29,640 --> 01:27:31,800
that climate anxiety

2427
01:27:31,884 --> 01:27:33,800
brings all people onto the streets?

2428
01:27:38,960 --> 01:27:40,880
in these days I finally lose control

2429
01:27:41,040 --> 01:27:44,040
of my sulky self-experiment

2430
01:27:44,480 --> 01:27:47,480
I dedicated two years to climate activism

2431
01:27:48,880 --> 01:27:49,720
but didn't consider

2432
01:27:50,160 --> 01:27:51,640
where that might also end:

2433
01:27:53,840 --> 01:27:54,920
in despair

2434
01:28:05,480 --> 01:28:06,520
David does not give up

2435
01:28:07,680 --> 01:28:09,676
He co-founds the climate protest movement

2436
01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:11,000
"Last Generation”

2437
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:12,996
and goes on to block highways

2438
01:28:13,080 --> 01:28:13,920
with saved foods

2439
01:28:14,400 --> 01:28:16,437
he glues himself onto roads

2440
01:28:16,520 --> 01:28:17,960
and negotiation tables

2441
01:28:18,200 --> 01:28:20,160
...like a 100 km/h highway speed-limit

2442
01:28:20,360 --> 01:28:22,360
even goes to prison for doing so

2443
01:28:22,640 --> 01:28:25,640
...speed-limit will save 80 million liters of fuel per year

2444
01:28:26,600 --> 01:28:28,520
these are my Montessori-materials

2445
01:28:28,800 --> 01:28:31,280
Disillusioned, Hanna quits activism

2446
01:28:31,920 --> 01:28:33,960
signs a teaching contract

2447
01:28:34,560 --> 01:28:35,636
She thinks her energies

2448
01:28:35,720 --> 01:28:37,680
are better invested into education

2449
01:28:40,880 --> 01:28:42,960
I try to overcome my climate-depression

2450
01:28:43,280 --> 01:28:45,880
by playing pratical jokes on parked cars

2451
01:28:47,920 --> 01:28:49,400
The "Vienna Auto-Lottery"

2452
01:28:49,880 --> 01:28:51,076
is my way of supporting the city

2453
01:28:51,160 --> 01:28:52,516
in reaching at least one of their

2454
01:28:52,600 --> 01:28:54,160
self-proclaimed climate goals:

2455
01:28:55,080 --> 01:28:57,640
A minus one-sixth reduction of private cars

2456
01:28:57,760 --> 01:28:59,040
by 2030

2457
01:29:00,720 --> 01:29:01,597
I issue fake

2458
01:29:01,680 --> 01:29:03,120
but highly realistic parking tickets

2459
01:29:03,600 --> 01:29:05,200
informing drivers that as of now

2460
01:29:05,320 --> 01:29:06,920
the municipality will terminate

2461
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:10,157
400 parking permissions every month

2462
01:29:10,240 --> 01:29:11,920
on a lottery basis

2463
01:29:12,880 --> 01:29:15,437
This morning, some drivers

2464
01:29:15,520 --> 01:29:17,157
were in for a rude surprise

2465
01:29:17,240 --> 01:29:18,560
The intervention causes a stir

2466
01:29:19,160 --> 01:29:20,520
but doesn't change the fact

2467
01:29:20,960 --> 01:29:22,800
that the public is perfectly satisified

2468
01:29:23,000 --> 01:29:25,160
with nice sounding climate targets as they are

2469
01:29:26,440 --> 01:29:28,600
But no-one want laws and policies

2470
01:29:29,480 --> 01:29:30,720
to actually reach them!

2471
01:29:30,840 --> 01:29:33,840
the City of Vienna's omnipresent greenwashing

2472
01:29:34,040 --> 01:29:35,880
finds its way into the media

2473
01:29:36,040 --> 01:29:38,160
Far too often

2474
01:29:44,640 --> 01:29:45,680
On the ground

2475
01:29:45,800 --> 01:29:48,280
where last year we had our protest camps

2476
01:29:49,080 --> 01:29:52,640
you can now already drive onto the highway

2477
01:29:55,920 --> 01:29:56,920
They claim

2478
01:29:57,720 --> 01:30:00,160
to build the city of the future

2479
01:30:01,560 --> 01:30:04,560
and it's the past that blows up in your face

2480
01:30:08,000 --> 01:30:09,000
I ask myself

2481
01:30:11,640 --> 01:30:14,640
are we eventually also going to explode

2482
01:30:15,440 --> 01:30:17,320
smash windscreens

2483
01:30:18,280 --> 01:30:19,680
decorate car bodies

2484
01:30:20,520 --> 01:30:22,720
or empty their batteries in the dark of the night

2485
01:30:23,160 --> 01:30:27,040
Just imagine what you can rent for 10 euros elsewhere

2486
01:30:29,600 --> 01:30:31,077
Vienna, you're a parking lot!

2487
01:30:31,160 --> 01:30:32,200
For this film

2488
01:30:32,680 --> 01:30:34,360
I only ever meant to play

2489
01:30:34,480 --> 01:30:35,840
the role of the climate activist

2490
01:30:36,440 --> 01:30:38,720
Vienna, you're a parking lot!

2491
01:30:40,360 --> 01:30:41,080
In the end

2492
01:30:41,960 --> 01:30:43,000
I've become one

2493
01:30:44,200 --> 01:30:45,720
We must reclaim our city

2494
01:30:46,880 --> 01:30:48,280
all these innocent fools like myself

2495
01:30:48,440 --> 01:30:49,400
who would normally never do anything

2496
01:30:49,640 --> 01:30:51,200
they've got to climb onto the cars

2497
01:30:51,360 --> 01:30:52,920
and say: we want to get this space back!

2498
01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:57,480
Vienna, you're a parking lot!

2499
01:31:08,920 --> 01:31:11,520
I think it was always the ones outside

2500
01:31:12,120 --> 01:31:13,917
The first showing of my film

2501
01:31:14,000 --> 01:31:16,040
is a test-screening on a playground

2502
01:31:17,200 --> 01:31:18,637
If a child shows up

2503
01:31:18,720 --> 01:31:20,077
we've got to quickly remove the screen

2504
01:31:20,160 --> 01:31:21,320
Blockade, not building brigade...

2505
01:31:21,640 --> 01:31:22,600
There's a lot of laughter

2506
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:26,200
and grave silence during the forest fire

2507
01:31:27,840 --> 01:31:29,200
In the audience discussion

2508
01:31:29,320 --> 01:31:30,480
everyone agrees:

2509
01:31:30,960 --> 01:31:32,400
the film needs some sort of reconciliation

2510
01:31:32,680 --> 01:31:34,160
...in the very end

2511
01:31:34,320 --> 01:31:35,280
with less confrontation

2512
01:31:35,800 --> 01:31:36,920
and more community

2513
01:31:37,600 --> 01:31:39,160
perhaps at the weekend-house?

2514
01:31:39,280 --> 01:31:40,400
...didn't help either

2515
01:31:40,680 --> 01:31:41,720
If that's the last thing that remains

2516
01:31:42,200 --> 01:31:43,760
maybe do it differently?

2517
01:31:43,960 --> 01:31:45,000
it’s a pity

2518
01:31:50,080 --> 01:31:52,040
In August, I invite everyone to "reconcile" themselves

2519
01:31:52,124 --> 01:31:54,160
in a final scene at our weekend house

2520
01:31:54,560 --> 01:31:56,640
...the street where the cats are traditionally run over

2521
01:31:57,640 --> 01:31:58,957
That fits amazingly well

2522
01:31:59,040 --> 01:32:00,960
also because she's wearing the right t-shirt

2523
01:32:01,360 --> 01:32:04,360
I hammer the "Rich aunt"-narrative into Michi's head

2524
01:32:04,520 --> 01:32:05,957
I try to imagine...

2525
01:32:06,040 --> 01:32:09,040
and after repeating it three times in a row

2526
01:32:09,400 --> 01:32:10,520
she ends up believing it herself

2527
01:32:10,840 --> 01:32:12,757
Never, I only met her once in hospital

2528
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:13,960
Why did you inherit it then?

2529
01:32:14,280 --> 01:32:16,760
Because she didn't have anyone else!

2530
01:32:17,360 --> 01:32:18,400
Nonetheless, I feel nervous

2531
01:32:18,560 --> 01:32:20,120
showing my friends around

2532
01:32:20,480 --> 01:32:21,640
the stairs lead up to the kitchen

2533
01:32:22,280 --> 01:32:24,000
But nobody has any moral objections

2534
01:32:24,160 --> 01:32:26,040
to a money-free climate activist

2535
01:32:26,200 --> 01:32:27,520
inheriting a weekend house

2536
01:32:27,720 --> 01:32:29,160
it also spews tonnes of CO2

2537
01:32:29,360 --> 01:32:30,080
All the more so

2538
01:32:30,320 --> 01:32:32,760
if he adresses those objections himself

2539
01:32:33,000 --> 01:32:34,840
...this way you get new power for your activism!

2540
01:32:35,040 --> 01:32:36,360
You know, we’re about...

2541
01:32:36,600 --> 01:32:38,197
Judith is also more than happy

2542
01:32:38,280 --> 01:32:39,557
to buy into the Aunt-Rudi-story

2543
01:32:39,640 --> 01:32:40,440
Austrian heirs

2544
01:32:40,560 --> 01:32:42,400
she tells me about her new documentary series

2545
01:32:42,520 --> 01:32:44,160
"Inheriting Austria"

2546
01:32:44,280 --> 01:32:45,720
would love to have me on board again

2547
01:32:45,880 --> 01:32:46,920
Perhaps Michi...

2548
01:32:47,040 --> 01:32:48,800
Yes, Michi, that would really be a good idea!

2549
01:32:49,480 --> 01:32:51,360
Johanna, so nice to have you here!

2550
01:32:51,800 --> 01:32:53,200
I give a thank-you speech

2551
01:32:54,280 --> 01:32:55,960
it's time for David’s applause

2552
01:32:56,080 --> 01:32:56,680
Where’s David?

2553
01:32:56,880 --> 01:32:57,520
David!

2554
01:32:57,680 --> 01:32:59,000
but he's nowhere to be seen

2555
01:32:59,084 --> 01:33:00,520
could you have a look where he is?

2556
01:33:00,760 --> 01:33:01,520
Last summer...

2557
01:33:01,760 --> 01:33:02,800
I find him on the hillside

2558
01:33:02,960 --> 01:33:04,520
I made tonnes of apple juice here

2559
01:33:05,160 --> 01:33:07,040
For the first time in weeks

2560
01:33:07,880 --> 01:33:09,160
I feel really good again

2561
01:33:10,240 --> 01:33:11,477
We even joke about the

2562
01:33:11,560 --> 01:33:12,680
tinder-dry forest on the other side

2563
01:33:12,800 --> 01:33:14,237
...surprising in the end, it comes down

2564
01:33:14,320 --> 01:33:16,000
to a few individual people

2565
01:33:16,240 --> 01:33:18,680
I want to thank him for all his activist energy

2566
01:33:19,480 --> 01:33:20,640
and inspiration

2567
01:33:21,680 --> 01:33:22,440
he confesses that

2568
01:33:23,200 --> 01:33:24,240
beginning in autumn

2569
01:33:24,360 --> 01:33:25,797
he'll take up work as a programmer

2570
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:27,520
for a London-based weather app

2571
01:33:28,720 --> 01:33:29,760
They are hiring people

2572
01:33:29,920 --> 01:33:30,800
So you move away?

2573
01:33:31,040 --> 01:33:32,597
He speaks of having sacrificed

2574
01:33:32,680 --> 01:33:34,360
the best years of his life for activism

2575
01:33:34,520 --> 01:33:37,160
Not even the most basic emergency measures

2576
01:33:37,244 --> 01:33:38,597
have come through

2577
01:33:38,680 --> 01:33:40,477
Just because I'm a climate activist

2578
01:33:40,560 --> 01:33:42,680
why shouldn't I be allowed to have a job

2579
01:33:42,800 --> 01:33:44,760
where I can earn more money

2580
01:33:45,360 --> 01:33:47,360
That's so sad, David!

2581
01:33:47,560 --> 01:33:48,080
Well..

2582
01:33:49,360 --> 01:33:50,920
somebody will take over

2583
01:33:51,320 --> 01:33:53,560
if one day our kids question us

2584
01:33:54,240 --> 01:33:57,240
why didn't we do anything against climate crisis

2585
01:33:58,040 --> 01:33:59,600
at least we can show them

2586
01:33:59,880 --> 01:34:01,320
my film

2587
01:34:05,040 --> 01:34:05,880
I'm thinking:

2588
01:34:06,080 --> 01:34:06,800
As a souvenir...

2589
01:34:07,280 --> 01:34:09,080
in spite of all the bitterness

2590
01:34:09,280 --> 01:34:12,280
these could be good closing words

2591
01:34:13,280 --> 01:34:14,600
Would you be able to repeat that

2592
01:34:14,684 --> 01:34:16,077
in front my camera?

2593
01:34:16,160 --> 01:34:17,157
then I'll just go

2594
01:34:17,240 --> 01:34:18,080
fetch it now

2595
01:34:19,120 --> 01:34:20,197
and I'll film you

2596
01:34:20,280 --> 01:34:21,360
telling this to me

2597
01:34:22,400 --> 01:34:23,000
Yes...

2598
01:34:23,160 --> 01:34:23,600
Yes?

2599
01:34:24,360 --> 01:34:25,120
You wait here?

2600
01:34:25,320 --> 01:34:26,240
Yes, sure...