In an unknown future, the world of today—full of screens, lockdowns, and borders—seems dystopic and fragmented. A mother speaks to her unborn child, what pieces of today are relevant tomorrow? However, not only insecurity, but hope as well remains eternal, a structural element of human life.
Christine Moderbacher
Christine Moderbacher is a visual anthropologist and documentary filmmaker (MA in visual anthropology/documentary film at the University of Manchester). She completed her PhD at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen and is currently part of the Max Planck Research Group “Alpine Histories of Global Change: Time, Self, and the Other in the German-Speaking Alpine Region” in Halle, Germany. Her documentary films A Letter to Mohamed (SIC/CVB Brussels) and Red Earth White Snow (Pinanona Production Vienna) have been shown at international film festivals and have received a number of prizes.
Iris Blauensteiner
Iris Blauensteiner works as a filmmaker and author. She studied Art & Digital Media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and Film- and Theatre Τheory at the University of Vienna. Since 2004 she is making films, especially in the fields of writing and directing. Her films, the latest The world is blue at its edges, the_other_images, Rest and Sweat were screened at international festivals. In 2016, her first novel Kopfzecke was published by Kremayr & Scheriau. Since 2010 shorter texts were published in anthologies and literature magazines.