Film-Screening - 8 PM Landart Eisenberg
Besuch im Bubenland
Katrin Schlösser
We travel through southern Burgenland on a field research trip with the filmmaker to explore how men think and speak. Katrin Schlösser lived here for a while, got married and made the painfully beautiful film Szenen meiner Ehegedreht. During these years, she noticed a lot about the men here and their self-images, which she condensed into a mental map of Bubenland.
Schlösser meets men on site - acquaintances and those she has never spoken to before. She seeks dialogue, but as different as these men are in terms of age and background, they all seem lazy, at least at first glance. ‘That's just the way it is’ or ‘It's fine’ are the most common phrases in the repertoire of all the interlocutors. These can be used to stifle in-depth reflections on failure and the pain of existence, but the visitor doesn't let up. With a great deal of humour, curiosity and, most importantly, palpable sympathy, she elicits from her ‘boys’ what has probably never been said before, without giving them the feeling of being taken by surprise.
