We tend to put older people away, and it's all about young people. The lyrics, 'slow down you crazy child' - in other words, you have a whole life. I lot of people in their 20s think they have to get it all together by their 30s and they kill themselves trying to get the golden ring. On a Howard Stern appearance Joel said that the song came to him very quickly, in what he called "a Promethean moment." Describing his message in the song, he explained: "It was an observation that you have your whole life to live. Vienna waits for you from Glaciar Films on Vimeo.One of Billy’s favourite songs according to an interview on the Late show with Stephen Colbert. There is also something slightly Faustian, with the idea of contractually binding oneself (though there seems little upside to this one, bar cheap rent, and the cost comes quick and heavy). In this case it is not a whole landscape that the building is part of it is localised to the apartment, but it is an apartment with a long reach. Its always great to find a vampiric building film. This is a really inventive short and kudos to Petra Staduan who clearly had to go through heavier and heavier makeup as she was aged. However, not only is it ageing the occupant but it is absorbing them, making them part of the apartment – we see this when she rips her paper-thin skin and sees her tendons have become threads rather than flesh and blood. What is Anna to do? Can she escape the apartment or even sacrifice another person to appease its hunger? If one complies then it is a pleasant enough jailer, providing coffee and biscuits. He mentions a school next door and an attempt to starve the apartment – it aged the whole class to old age. Eventually the manager explains that this has been going on for decades. The building is able to communicate in groans – it appears – and can defend itself, for example choking Anna with a doily that appears in her throat when she tries to burn it. She cannot leave without a new tenant and the further she moves away the faster she’ll age. She stays in a hotel but wakes much older – the building manager explains, on her return to the building, that it is part of the protocol. Asking for her ID, Anna sees it has aged and has a pattern of a doily across it. She claims to be 25 and the doctor offers to refer to a psychologist. She goes to see a doctor, citing wrinkles and grey hair but the doctor says it is normal for a woman her age. She cannot leave unless there is a replacement tenant. She can’t leave, he explains, it is part of the contract. She goes to the manager and complains – throwing the key at him and stating that the building is making her sick. Looking in the mirror she looks haggard, older. But the walls revert to their original colour, the mirrors become dirty again, doilies reform and fruit that Anna buys rots in the bowl in the blink of an eye. In the meantime, the building manager gives Anna her key.Īnna tries to spruce the place up, throwing out ornaments and doilies, cleaning mirrors and painting walls. Anna signs the lease a beep heralds a taxi and the old lady is off. Anna is new in town, she confesses, having moved there three weeks ago to be with her boyfriend, Danial (Moritz Vierboom), but that didn’t work out. The old lady is going to travel the world, she says. She is astounded that the apartment is so cheap but it is Government subsidised he informs her. Fennon), are showing the apartment to Anna (Petra Staduan). In the apartment some time later and the woman, and the building manager (Alexander E. She tries to grab a shard of pot, but can’t quite reach, her false teeth fall out and then something pulls her back up. She tries to climb down but slips and falls, her foot catching in a loop in the rope, leaving her dangling over the pavement. The camera lingers on the couch opposite for a moment and we see the woman give it the finger (or it appears she gives the coach the finger but it is likely the whole apartment). The makeshift rope goes out of the window and she climbs out of the apartment, knocking a pot from the window sill. When she gets into the living room, she pulls a string of lacey doilies tied together, rather like linens or sheets to make a rope, from her top and ties it to the leg of a sturdy looking appliance. It begins with an elderly lady (Traute Furthner) crawling through the apartment on her hands and knees. What makes this interesting is that it is a vampiric location – in this case an apartment building. A 26-minute film, this was directed by Dominik Hartl and released in 2012.
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