30. Juni 2014 iRRland-Filmabend - Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl

iRRland-Filmabend

Montag 30. Juni 2014, 20 Uhr, iRRland, Bergmannstraße 8, München

A long time ago, the so-called "Google Wars" engulfed the whole world in a deadly chain reaction. Civilization came to a grinding halt. But there is still hope. This is the story of a new beginning...

A plot teaser: 

The growing tension between the last two remaining superpowers -­ China and Google -­ escalates in the early 21st century, and results in the global inferno of the "Google Wars". But the years go by, radioactive dust settles on old battlegrounds, and a New World rises from the ashes of the old. Fratt Aigner, a seedy journalist, and Alalia Grundschober, a nerdy technician, live and work in Mega City Schwechat: the biggest semi-urban sprawl in the foothills of what remained of the Alps. Newspaper mogul Thurnher von Pjölk assigns them a special task: to venture into the boondocks of the Gstetten and find the legendary Echsenfriedl. It is the beginning of a journey full of dangers, creatures and precarious working conditions...

We originally created the film for ORF III (Austria's PBS; premiered in March 2014), but we are also submitting it to a bunch of film festivals and hacker cons all around the globe... so let's see...

Side story: We were brainstorming how to get a bit more money for the project. So we added a text insert into the film, one similar to watermarks used in festival viewing copies. The text insert asks the viewer to report the film as copyright infringement by calling a premium-rate phone number (1.09 EUR/minute). And when the film aired on Austrian national television, people really called the number to report us. So we co-financed the film with proceeds from the premium-rate number. I call this new strategy 'crowdratting.'

Anyhow, here is the website: http://monochrom.at/gstettensaga/

Artikel von Peter Mühlbauer auf telepolis: http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/41/41478/1.html