Ciao Chérie

Making phone calls, sending money, surfing - that's what people come to a Vienna callshop for: Homesickness and love, worry and hope, doubt and uncertainty - all this is discussed in the phone booths, where origin and belonging are full of contradictions. Keeping in touch or saying goodbye? - In her film, Nina Kusturica ("Little Alien") tells of life in a foreign land and of the longing to overcome distances.

"The combination of language and image opens up spaces where only thoughts would be. Spaces larger than the speech cells, the confessionals, the detention boxes, the release rooms, the intimacy booths of solitude and bliss. Where only hearing is possible, every word becomes significant. Every breath, every pause, every intonation." DIAGONALE