UNTITLED

Synopsis

“I want to give a view of the world that can only emerge by not pursuing any particular theme, by refraining from passing judgment, proceeding without aim. Drifting with no direction except one’s own curiosity and intuition.”

– Michael Glawogger

After the sudden death of Michael Glawogger in April 2014, his longstanding collaborator and editor Monika Willi realizes a film out of the footage Glawogger shot over the course of 4 months and 19 days in the Balkans, Italy, North and West Africa. A journey out into the world with open eyes and open mind - observing, listening, experiencing.

Director Biography

Michael Glawogger, born in Graz in 1959, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Film Academy Vienna. He made his name both as a documentary and feature film director. His film Slumming screened in the Berlinale Competition, Kill Daddy Good Night screened in the Panorama and Cathedrals of Culture screened in Berlinale Special. Glawogger died in 2014 whilst directing Untitled in Liberia.

Monika Willi, born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1968, she is a film editor who has long been collaborating with directors Michael Glawogger and Michael Haneke. She won the Austrian Film Award for Best Editing for Barbara Albert’s Die Lebenden, the Filmplus Editing Award for Das weiße Band and for Thank you for Bombing by Barbara Eder. Untitled is her first film as a co-director.