Rowing for Europe

A Turk and an Austrian row down the Danube from Linz right through Southeast Europe all the way to the Black Sea. The space of the unmotorized wooden rowboat is a floating and shaky microcosm. Rowing, cooking, eating, sleeping – everything takes place in just a few square meters. The leisurely journey takes Gerald Harringer and Ihsan Banabak through heavy storms and dark locks. And to people they would otherwise probably never have met.

Director's Biography
GERALD HARRINGER, geb. 1962 in Linz, studierte an der Kunstuniversität Linz und am Central Saint Martins College in London. 1993 und 1994 Media Associate im Videoarchiv von The Kitchen in New York. Mitbegründer von Die Fabrikanten Linz. // Filme (Auswahl): MA (2003, short; CE’04), Trivial Europe (2007, doc; CE’08), Der Antilopenkuss (2010, doc; CE’11), Patrik Huber – Living Dead Clown (2012, short doc; CE’13), Rowing for Europe (2017, doc)
Local Artists 2017
Gerald Harringer
Austria 2017
color
50 minutes
OV with English subtitles
Screenplay Gerald Harringer
Cinematography Gerald Harringer
Editing Werner Beham
Sound/Sounddesign Markus Reiter
Music Triptonus – Fabian Kummer, Nikolaus Kummer, Wanja Bergmann, Jakob Bachbauer, Max Mayer, Clemens Hackmack
Producer(s) Johannes Pröll (AT)
Production
Johannes Pröll Filmproduktion Gusenstraße 9/9 4223 Katsdorf www.johannesproell.at Die Fabrikanten www.fabrikanten.at
World Premiere
Premierenstatus / Premiere Status
World Premiere

Gemeinsam mit / Together with
UTOPIA NOW
MIND THE MAP
THE GOD OF THE LABYRINTH
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