Bilder aus dem Tagebuch eines Wartenden

"It’s spooky here.... It looks really spooky through the camera".” – "You have to say this is the Burgenland Project". In fact however the snowy greenish night-vision images, created by recruits stationed on the border between Austria and Hungary, are not on a search for some woodland witch, and the infrared gaze doesn’t capture “illegal border crossers.” The soldiers are shooting a film in the eternal ice of a Burgenland winter, with video camera and cell phone, making images of each other getting bored and acting childish (glaciation can be fun too). They do all the stunts themselves and talk cursorily about their situation and their hopes for the future afterward. Judith Zdesar engineered and arranged the images, interspersing them with a few topographic tableaux.