I am shooting a short film in Graz this summer.
The film will be screened in an exhibition as part of the steirische herbst in September.
The film will be about the famous Italian radical architects Superstudio, that did some seminal work in Graz in 1969. I will re-enact parts of the group being in Graz. One living member of the group will participate in the film and interact with the group and his alter ego from the past.
This whole situation will be shot in one room in an archive in Graz.
Shooting will most likely be first half of July. (One day rehearsal on location, one day shooting)

Therefore I am looking for actors.

I need:

4 (Italian – or at least fluently Italian speaking) men.
Ideally they should resemble the 4 men in the picture below. (They were end 20 – early 30 on the photo)
There are no extraordinary actor skills needed. Most texts are read from manuscripts.

I will provide travels and 3 nights stay in Graz and can pay a little fee.
It would be great if we have the chance to do some rehearsals before in Berlin.

Architecture as a Political Instrument

September 21 – November 30, 2019

Curators BB Mak and Ludwig Engel
Exhibition in Graz at Haus der Architektur as a collateral event of steirischer herbst 2019

When Superstudio formed in Florence in 1967, pop and consumer culture were reaching an historically unfathomed high. Against this hyper-materialism, the group took a critical stance aiming at making architecture disappear completely thus taking away its power as a representational weapon of market ideology. Superstudio’s most famous work – The Continuous Monument, An Architectural Model for Total Urbanisation – offers a glimpse into the paradox that the task of designing an utopia brings with it: Intended as a fierce criticism of an insatiable capitalism by stripping architecture of all its form and meaning, today, Superstudio’s designs – stripped of their historical context – are often misinterpreted as visions representing our globalized and digitalized planet where any alternative to market economy has become unthinkable.
Given this historical example, highly relevant questions for today arise: How powerful is architecture today in shaping the future? Does today’s architecture production offer ways of alternative thinking? Can it visualize systemic change, can architecture even trigger change? And if so, how can its perception be processed in such an accelerated manner that its transformative power prevails instead being bent by history?

I received the Dietrich Ecker grant for researching the genesis of Superstudio's Continuous Monument in Graz

I received a 2019 grant of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation , New York.