Die beste Stadt ist keine Stadt

A young man sitting on a rusty hangar playing the guitar. An abandoned wooden church that is no longer needed and is moving to the edge of the growing city as an interim cultural use. Kindergarten children talking in a circle about what they are not doing at the moment. In his essay film "Die beste Stadt ist keine Stadt" (The Best City is No City), Christoph Schwarz mixes multiple perspectives on Vienna's largest urban expansion area. What they have in common is a sentimental critique of growth and a romantic rejection of progress in the face of the impending ecological collapse, which seems more credible to us than any happy ending.