COOK, EAT & CLEAN – Ritual of Disobedience 

SAT 20 NOV

Afterlives

Director: Michael Heindl

Format: Short Film

Duration: 03:25 min

Short description

If one compares the useful life of plastic objects with their period of decay, there is a considerable imbalance. One might think that the real existence of the objects begins only after their disposal and consists in their non-use. While they were an indispensable part of consumer societies until then, from now on they appear as antagonists of all ecosystems. Their main characteristic is to be consistently out of place. Where they appear, they do so as disruptive objects. This resistive potential of plastic objects is the focus of the film „Afterlives“. Along the coast, I collected a number of washed-up objects. In the form of small, subversive interventions in the public space of Vienna, the objects have now been restaged. What is washed up on the beaches returns as sand to the gears of the system.

BIO

Michael Heindl is an Austrian artist and filmmaker whose work combines conceptual rigor with playful experimentation. Through film, performance, and public-space interventions, he uses repetition, minimal actions, and humor to explore social systems, everyday routines, and the disruptions that reveal their hidden structures.

Credits

Concept & Realization: Michael Heindl

Supported by: Wien Kultur MA 7