Three people, one bunker, zero clue — the apocalypse of the anxious middle-class.
Has the catastrophe already happened or is it about to? Two men and a woman sit in their bunker-like apartments, as if they were in a waiting room. Overwhelmed by the flood of media information and guidebook words of wisdom, they seek stability in the piano play of the educated middle-class and Far-eastern self-optimization techniques. Their passive bewilderment turns into frenzied activism. Now something has to happen! But nothing does.
Direction
Schmid's surgical precision on bourgeois absurdity.
Production
Bunker aesthetics that suffocate elegantly.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes self-help clichés.
Director
Max Philipp Schmid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Austrian cinema's tradition of social critique through claustrophobic spaces — think Haneke's early TV work but with more yoga.
The 14-minute runtime is deliberate: just long enough to mirror how quickly panic dissipates into performative routine.
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