28.6.2025
90 Minutes
Megacities
Cinematheque TLV Theatre 4
28.6.2025, 15:15
90 Minutes Austria

Megacities- A Tribute For Wolfgang Thaler

Michael Glawogger
90 Minutes Austria
This multi-city symphony journeys from Mumbai to Moscow to Mexico City to New York to tell what it’s subtitle calls “12 Stories of Survival.” Episodic snippets of life on the urban margins feature, among other figures, a junkie hustler, a dye sifter, and a nightclub stripper. Rejecting many of the rules and conventions of documentary film, Glawogger incorporates several plainly staged sequences and, even in the face of squalid conditions and harsh realities, retains an experimental and exploratory approach to form and an emphasis on visual poetry. At the end of the screening, there will be a Q&A panel with the participation of director/photographer Wolfgang Thaler and Abigael Haddad.  

This multi-city symphony journeys from Mumbai to Moscow to Mexico City to New York to tell what it’s subtitle calls “12 Stories of Survival.” Episodic snippets of life on the urban margins feature, among other figures, a junkie hustler, a dye sifter, and a nightclub stripper. Rejecting many of the rules and conventions of documentary film, Glawogger incorporates several plainly staged sequences and, even in the face of squalid conditions and harsh realities, retains an experimental and exploratory approach to form and an emphasis on visual poetry. At the end of the screening, there will be a Q&A panel with the participation of director/photographer Wolfgang Thaler and Abigael Haddad.  

Megacities
Cinematheque TLV Theatre 4
28.6.2025, 15:15
Director: Michael Glawogger
Cinematography: Wolfgang Thaler
Production: Peter Wirthensohn
Editor: Andrea Wagner
Screenwriter: Michael Glawogger