Playing field

Josef Dabernig usually sets the action in a dying place: this time a hotel near Bratislava. The absurd juxtaposition of two worlds of war games meets there: that of the children with old-fashioned, home-made rockets and that of the parents on two laptops. Siegfried Fruhauf used his invitation to Cannes to symbolically condense 800 photos taken there "into an almost painterly visual concentrate of decomposition" (S.F.). The Empress and Emperor and their servile entourage are on holiday at Sissi's castle in Hungary and invite guests. Christian Frosch stages the game of vanities in the best camp style to bloody excess. Horse Camp, on the other hand, quietly and ironically focuses on the waiting times of the team members and the equipment used during a film shoot. The film ends with a rhythmic firework display of colours in Tina Frank's music video. (bbu)