Venice turns into a ghost town at nightfall. Entire quarters, long since abandoned by their inhabitants, stand empty, their structures merely providing a myth to serve business interests. Twenty million foreigners visited the city in 2012, Venice’s own urban life has almost collapsed, it scarcely still exists. The film shows what remains of Venetian life: a subculture of tourist service industries, a port for monstrous cruisers which is waiting to be expanded, Venetians who are moving to the mainland as there are no longer affordable apartments to be found.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR
Andreas Pichler (1967, Bolzano) is a director. After gaining a degree at TV and Film School Zelig in Bolzano, he studied film and culture at the University of Bologna and philosophy at the Open University in Berlin. Professionally, Pichler has chosen the field of TV- and cinema-documentaries. Many of his works, where he acted as an author, director and/or producer, were co-produced by different European TV-channels such as ZDF, ARTE, RAI, ORF, YLE, IKON and were presented at several international festivals. Today Pichler works as a director and producer in Italy, Germany and Austria.