Frutti Di Mare

Crew: Marlene Hauser, Anna Wagner, Mona Kospach, Lukas Walcher, Faris Rahoma, Clemens Berndorff, Marcel Mohab, Dolores Winkler, Alina Schaller, Vitus Wieser, Michael Rast, Selman Klicic, Karola Niederhuber, Harry Lampl, Musl.
Photo Credit: Rene Böhmer

Anna plans to escape from her crippling provincial life, but a ghostly encounter postpones it. A procrastinated narrative of departure, located in the Styrian province and with good connections to the genre tropes of the uncanny as the grotesque.

The seven things are already in the trunk, and the farewell words are practiced when Anna drives out the questionably spiced up frozen pizzas of the local "Italian" one last time. The said inn with a rustic, Mediterranean ambience is a biotope of the stranded, searching and bored. Here one argues over the correct pronunciation of a spaghetti classic, defends the rules of the regular table and remembers the mystery of a disappearance without a trace. Anna could also soon be one of the few people whose absence in the village continues to be a topic of discussion years later. But a ghostly encounter brings them into procrastination – for now. A story about a prevented departure and a dragged coming-of-age, settled in the Styrian province and with good connections to the genre tropes of the uncanny like the grotesque.(catalogue text, Esther Buss) – Diagonale 2026