u19 Winner: Golden Nica
DSCHUNGEL (JUNGLE) is a web series of five episodes (each about ten minutes long) that describes the last day of summer in the life of various teenagers in Vienna.
There are no boundaries between genres and stylistic influences. Sequences that look like rap music videos; surreal dream scenes underlaid with Orthodox choir music; elements of found-footage thrillers and coming-of-age films like those from the 1980s: all this and more is merged in the web series to create an overall work in which Alex Lazarov and his team saw an opportunity to try out as many new things as possible without striving for perfection.
The project is a portrait of the undertaking was to try out as many new things as possible, to put together a large team of young people, and to combine different artistic and cultural influences.
Credits:
Screenwriter, director, editor, producer: Alex Lazarov
Camera: Stefan Krenn
Production design, costumes, and masks: Lucy Li, Catherine Hu
Casting and production manager, assistant director: Daniel Prem
Sound: Roman Lichtenegger
Music: Istvan J. Balazs, Jakob Lippert
Camera assistant: Simon Ulrich
Color editing and production assistant: Martin Lazarov
Cast: Alduin Gazquez, Paul Basonga, Gabriel Holzer, Patricia Avram, Emil De Cilia, Isabella Campestrini, Toni Steger, Elena Platon, Florian Mayer, David Dopeheide, Karoline Sachslehner, Lea Stern, Evelyn Preiss, Akeem Julien, Adrian Anton Kaminitschek, Manfred Fuchs, Boris Lazarov
