Cinéma Copains

While I prepare my apartment for a pancake loving visitor the students of the cinéma copains course are euphorically rushing to shoot their first 16mm movie. Yesterday they had a theoretical introduction into how the cameras work, today they get practical. The participants drew from a lottery one of the 3 cameras: two different types of Bolex and one Krasnogorsk.

Christine, Kamil, Simone, Vera and Verena drew the Krasnogorsk camera. They have 15 meters of 16mm colour film, which make 1 minute and 20 seconds. The group collectively plans the sequences. As the topic of their film they choose water. Because today it rains again and again.

The group after shooting the final scene of their first 16mm film:

Before we make pancakes I want to show the castle to Johnny. So we take a walk to the city center. In the passage at the Universitätsplatz a begging punk sits on the ground. We offer him some of our red wine and he tells us that he just escaped from Vienna, where he defended a pizzeria occupied by anarchists against raiding police. Johnny Bliss, the punk and me walk up the Salzburg castle to take a look from there east and west. The punk tells his story: he started to drink at the age of 9 becoming alcoholic at the age of 14. When he was 16 the girl he loved was killed by her father accidentally by car when her father was drunk. The punk used to sleep next to her grave at the cemetery and the police would wake him up in the morning telling him he had to leave the cemetery yet he returned to sleep next to where she was buried. His girlfriend's father was a nazi like his own parents are nazis, a fact that would unite the young punks against their parents. After the girl's death the punk would go to her father's house and beat him up every other evening for half a year, the police regularly dragging him out of the house handcuffed. Until one day the girl's father committed suicide. For 8 years the punk has not communicated to his parents. His rage and anger about what they have done to him during his childhood is growing ever since but he thinks they could apologize and ask his forgiveness one day.

Although the punk is being sued for attempted manslaughter in relation with him →defending the occupied pizzeria we let him stay with us at the Mozart Haus. It is raining outside. We will have pancakes for breakfast. On our way home we see firefighters extinguishing fire at the Café am Kai.