Gerda Lampalzer

The filmmakers seek out experts and amateurs in the field of the supernatural and ask them to explain the methods by which they make contact with the "cosmic information web". In their search for "units of sense" in the chaos, the researchers use, interestingly enough, those techniques which are presently central to popular culture - de-construction, sampling and scratching.

Oral witnesses tell about their work in the Austrian underground movement against the national socialist regime. Agnes Primoschitz, Johanna Sadolschek-Zala, Rosl Grossmann-Breuer and Anni Haider talk about helping concenreation camp prisoners escape, fighting with the partisans and imprisonment, and about various experiences which bring back happy and sad memories. Many of their friends and relatives did not survive the terrible time. Some of the oral witnesses hadn't counted on surviving the prisons and concentration camps.

Restricted area in the middle of Lower Austria's Waldviertel region: Allensteig military training area: on the map, a patch mostly shaded in red. The little-known history of this landscape of ruins begins in 1938, when, in the wake of the annexation by Hitler's Germany, the area was declared a military training ground. As a result, more than 40 villages were resettled between 1938 and 1942.