Medienwerkstatt Wien

Through previously undiscovered private letters, photos and diaries that were found in the Himmler family house in 1945, the "The Decent One" exposes a unique and at times uncomfortable access to the life and mind of the merciless "Architect of the Final Solution" Heinrich Himmler.

Oral witnesses tell about their work in the Austrian underground movement against the national socialist regime. Agnes Primoschitz, Johanna Sadolschek-Zala, Rosl Grossmann-Breuer and Anni Haider talk about helping concenreation camp prisoners escape, fighting with the partisans and imprisonment, and about various experiences which bring back happy and sad memories. Many of their friends and relatives did not survive the terrible time. Some of the oral witnesses hadn't counted on surviving the prisons and concentration camps.

Essayistic homage to the outskirts featuring musical act of Stefan Nemeth

What makes this work so attractive is the carefree nature of the montage, in which documentary impressions collide with strict structural arrangements, experimental forms follow essayistic miniatures

With the act of capturing the strange worlds on film, one's own presence is unveiled as exotic.