Young Professionals
Honorary Mention
How different are we really? This is the question that the documentary film Meine Welt, Deine Welt (My World, Your World) asks a drag queen, a monk, a female farmer, and an animal-rights activist—four people who could not be more different but who nevertheless have much in common. Four life stories about tolerance, decisions, and clichés.
After our last documentation, Kunst und Überleben (Art and Survival), we wanted to keep growing and evolving and decided to make another documentary film. Because at the time we saw a polarization of society driven by politics, we wanted to counter this by showing that every individual is entitled to his or her own lifestyle. For us, the central theme in this film is diversity: the diversity of life concepts in Austria. We want to show just how varied and even antithetical life designs in Austria can be. In making this film, it was especially important to us that we create a balance: there is no good and no evil in this film; all the characters have their own world in which they live, and no one world is better than any other.
Preview Video
Credit: Zoe Borzi (AT), Nikolaus Heckel (AT), Jonathan Steininger (AT)
Credit: Zoe Borzi (AT), Nikolaus Heckel (AT), Jonathan Steininger (AT)
Credit: Zoe Borzi (AT), Nikolaus Heckel (AT), Jonathan Steininger (AT)
Credit: Zoe Borzi (AT), Nikolaus Heckel (AT), Jonathan Steininger (AT)
Project Credits / Acknowledgements
CAST: Meta Morkid, Markus Kohlross, Angelika Wechtitsch, Frater Philipp
Biographies
Zoe Borzi (b. 2000), Nikolaus Heckel (b. 2000), and Jonathan Steininger (b. 2000) met at school when they were 14. They quickly realized that they shared a passion: documentary films. For their final project in their final year of school, they decided to make a documentary themselves, and produced Kunst und Überleben (Art and Survival). Because the film was so well received, a year later they decided to produce another documentary film: Meine Welt, Deine Welt.
Jurystatement
The central theme of this documentary is the diversity of lifestyles in Austria: that of a female farmer, a monk, an activist, and a drag queen. All of the characters have their own world in which they live, and none is better than another. The strength of this work lies in the narrative style: the subjects are not interrupted with questions; rather, they talk about their lives, and we listen—with pleasure. The attempt is made here (to borrow a statement from one of the figures in the documentary) “to put the image of truth in a positive light.” And therein lies perhaps the most outstanding quality of this project: it demands an answer from us. This is a courageous, important work.
Talent Talks
As a complementary international part of the category u19–create your world of the Prix Ars Electronica, jury member and moderator Conny Lee (AT) is talking with some of this years winners about their ideas, creativity and future visions.
