Angst

Angst (1983)

Angst screens as part of WatchAUT, 15 Mar 2025  Gerald Kargl’s Angst opens with a tracking shot of its male protagonist as he walks down an otherwise empty suburban street. Courtesy of cinematogropher Zbigniew Rybczyński (who is also the film’s co-writer and editor), this is a single fluid shot, in what looks like Steadicam, following…

Adopting Audrey

Adopting Audrey (aka Porcupine) (2021)

Adopting Audrey has its European première at the Glasgow Film Festival, 2023   “Don’t you ever feel like you just want to – leave?”, asks Audrey (Jena Malone, astonishingly nuanced) at the call centre where she works. Audrey is surprised to hear how long the customer on the other end of the phone has lived…