The Best City is No City at All

A young man sitting on a rusty hangar playing his guitar An abandoned wooden church no longer needed relocating to the outskirts of an urban expansion area for cultural interim usage Nursery school children in a chair circle telling each other what they are NOT doing In his essay film THE BEST CITY IS NO CITY AT ALL Christoph Schwarz mixes multiple perspectives on Viennas largest urban expansion area They share a sentimental criticism of growth and a romantic refusal to progress while facing imminent ecological collapse which seems more credible to us than any happy ending