Laura Mann

Bei der Palme unten (engl. “down by the palm tree”) is a documentary film project that explores urban spaces in Vienna. The well-known Café Weidinger and the Lugner City, a shopping mall are portrayed from the perspective of their visitors, their owners and guests. Both locations are places to linger and to meet and are defined by the everyday routines of their users. The on-site interviews form a central element of the work. They allow brief insights into different realities of life and fill the rooms with stories without ever showing the faces of the narrators. The peculiar poetry of the rooms, the arrangement of the objects and the details speak for themselves.