Angelika Reitzer

When Sandra was a child, global crises triggered deep insecurity in her. She experienced the so-called HPP or high place phenomenon: the eerie thought of jumping from a great height. As an adult, the sensation returns with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

The white, gray and black rooms of a common past and the separate present, the surrounding dreams and fantasies about one‘s own life and the lives of others: when Olga, Yvonne and Manon - three former best friends meet again after twenty years, the facades of their life contracts are removed layer by layer. But they separate again before the résumés collapse.

Writer Angelika Reitzer visits a farm in Styria, recalling her father’s life as a farmer and his enduring joy in “sticking pigs.” An essay filmed in both black-and-white and color, exploring tradition, modernization, and small utopias.

When Sandra was a child, global crises triggered deep insecurity in her. She experienced the so-called HPP or high place phenomenon: the eerie thought of jumping from a great height. As an adult, the sensation returns with the outbreak of the war in Ukraine.

The white, gray and black rooms of a common past and the separate present, the surrounding dreams and fantasies about one‘s own life and the lives of others: when Olga, Yvonne and Manon - three former best friends meet again after twenty years, the facades of their life contracts are removed layer by layer. But they separate again before the résumés collapse.

Writer Angelika Reitzer visits a farm in Styria, recalling her father’s life as a farmer and his enduring joy in “sticking pigs.” An essay filmed in both black-and-white and color, exploring tradition, modernization, and small utopias.