OPERATION JANE WALK
AUSTRIA 16 MIN, 2018
RUSSIAN PREMIERE
ABOUT
Operation Jane Walk is based on the dystopian multiplayer shooter Tom Clancy’s: The Division. The game’s digital war zone is appropriated with the help of an artistic operation: Within the rules of the game’s software, the militaristic environment is being re-used for a pacifistic city tour. The urban strollers avoid the combats whenever possible and become peaceful tourists of a digital world, which is a detailed replica of Midtown Manhattan. While walking through the post-apocalyptic city, issues such as architecture history, urbanism and the game developer’s interventions into the urban fabric are being discussed.
DIRECTORS
ROBIN KLENGEL
Robin Klengel born 1988 in Graz. He lives and works as artist, illustrator and cultural anthropologist in Vienna and Graz. He is interested in individual and collective tactics of spatial appropriation, and mechanisms of order and control of the urban as well as the digital public spaces. Klengel situates his work between art, science and social-political involvement, and participated in various projects and publications in this field. Since 2017 he is vice chairman of the interdisciplinary art and culture space Forum Stadtpark.
LEONHARD MÜLLNER
Leonhard Müllner, born 1987 in Graz, lives and works in Vienna as Visual Artist and Media Researcher. He studied Visual Art and Media Art at the UFG Linz (AT), at the HGB Leipzig (DE) and at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT). Currently he writes his PHD in Practice in the field of Cultural Studies. He intervenes into the public as well as into the digital space. Müllner has international exhibition, screening and residency experience. He recently won the prize for the Best Austrian Film in the Vienna Short Film Festival (VIS).
OTHER FESTIVALS
- Diagonale - Festival of Austrian Film
- 15th Crossing Europe Film Festival
- Cinema Next Ontour, Austria
- Vienna Shorts
- IFF Suburbinale, Austria
- Linz International Short Film Festival, Austria
- 15th Sedicicorto International Film Festival, Italy
- 10th Architecture And Design Film Festival, USA
- BFI London Film Festival
- 17th Cinemaforum Int'l Short Film Festival in Poland
- Documentaries For Children And Youth in Germany
- Austrian Short Film Show
- 35th Kasseler Dok Fest, Germany
- IDFA Amsterdam
- Asifa Austria, Vienna
- 3rd Chhatrapati Shivaji IFF, India
- IFF of Sriganganagar, India
- ADFF: DC Architecture and Design Film Festival, USA
- Prague Short Film Festival
- Austrian Film Award
- 16th Flex - Florida Experimental Film/video Festival
- 5th Felacos - Festival De Largos Y Cortos De Santiago, Chile
- 12th Glasgow Short Film Festival
- 25th International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany
- 27th Febiofest Int’l Film Festival, Czech Republic
- 10th Short Waves Festival, Poland
- 26th Mffk - Int’l Film Clubs Festival Febiofest, Slovakia
SECTION
DOKer 2019 — LET IT DOK! COMPETITION PROGRAM