Imagine: To leave a secure life. To follow your dream. To sacrifice. To endure. In a city like Vienna ...to become an artist.
How do you become an artist? How do you live and survive as a young artist in the metropolis of Vienna? How do you finance yourself as a newcomer in the art business? What are the biggest challenges? What does it mean to sacrifice so much for the one goal: to live in Vienna as an artist.
The majority of artists live in precarious life situations, between the poles of artistic self-realization and the financial struggle for survival. Dark future prospects that raise the question: why make art, why even begin with it?
And yet they do exist, many young people who apply each year at art universities in Vienna. They finish their studies ... but what happens then? The big breakthrough rarely, if ever, succeeds immediately. Which strategies enable financial survival? Reality versus fiction. How do young artists make their first steps into the professional scene?
This documentary gets to the bottom of these and other exciting questions. The film accompanies four young artists from different disciplines for one year on their own personal journey. And in the midst of all this, a youtuber gone astray, who leads the audience through the unadorned story line.THE contemporary film about the young Viennese art-scene that aims to inspire a young audience in particular for documentary film and its subject matter. A film that not only stylistically builds a bridge between a modern audience in a fast-paced world and deep, sophisticated issues.
At the same time, this portrait represents a declaration of love to the city of Vienna: an extraordinary city of contrasts. A rich city of migration, big and small battles, diversity, winners and lost souls. A city of the arts and survival artists.
