international short film competition
An Accident
Angelika Spangel
Austria · 30'
Screenings
Synopsis
A series of startling accidents shakes a small village. Why did the man on the bench die? Why is nobody helping at the site of the car crash? Why does the farmer's son feel responsible for the death of the pigs? Everything is linked through guilt and shame, raising the question of where fiction ends and real harm begins.
Details
- Direction
- Angelika Spangel
- Country
- Austria
- Runtime
- 30'
Direction
Angelika Spangel
Angelika Spangel is an Austrian cinematographer and filmmaker. She studied Educational Sciences at the University of Vienna and then trained in cinematography and visual composition at the Vienna Film Academy, in Wolfgang Thaler's class, whom she assisted on numerous productions. Together with Sophia Wiegele she worked as cinematographer on the mid-length film Strangers in the Night, which premiered at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and was nominated for the Michael Ballhaus Award. An Accident is her first short film as a director.