Against the Current. A Grassroots Initiative

A power plant will be built in Lambach in Upper Austria. A number of the country’s citizens protest against it. And record their resistance on videotape, capturing discussions, demonstrations, the occupation of the construction site, and the clash of arguments and human bodies. In the end, construction was completed, and the power plant went into operation in spring of the year 2000. The group gave their footage to filmmaker Martina Theininger, who used it to create a documentary of the resistance which the activists can examine from a distance of several years. Against the Current shows how the conflict...