Lisa Weber

Filmmaker Christoph Schwarz is broke. Fortunately, he gets an offer from ORF. But does Schwarz really want to document his self-experiment as an environmental activist? Wouldn’t it be better to reorient the longterm experiment into a critique of capitalism and secretly buy the desired weekend house with the film budget? A self-mocking film about double standards, which playfully and humorously shows that the problems you clear away, are often smaller than the new ones that you thereby create.

A couple hoping to have children escapes the rain into a shop when a phone app beeps: “The fertile phase is ending soon!” They attempt conception in a fitting room, but things go wrong: curious glances, position crises, sex talk, and other libido killers.

Lisa goes on a summer vacation with her grandparents, travelling from Vienna to the North Cape by car. She films the journey, in this seemingly simple and light-hearted doc, but soon its length becomes a metaphor for the couple's long-lived and troubled relationship.

Lisa Weber’s portrait of Claudia, who had a son when she was 15 and now lives together with him, her mother and her brother in Vienna, is an affectionate and gentle film about the passing of time and about what happens when seemingly nothing is happening.

Lisa Weber’s portrait of Claudia, who had a son when she was 15 and now lives together with him, her mother and her brother in Vienna, is an affectionate and gentle film about the passing of time and about what happens when seemingly nothing is happening.