Even more than all of life is a theater, it is a movie, and everyone plays his or her very own role in it. “Role-playing” is an essential part of how we all cope with existence and life. Who better to convey this truth than those who have made role-playing and its banishment on celluloid their profession?
In sensitive photo portraits that attempt to expose the interfaces between private and public, but also cultivate the gentle play with dramaturgical content, props and poses, photographer Manfred Pauker presents a masterful kaleidoscope of more than two dozen contemporary Austrian filmmakers.