With 2551.02 – The Orgy of the Damned, Norbert Pfaffenbichler has further confirmed his talent for playing with new ways of understanding mise-en-scène itself, drawing inspiration from the origins of cinema, but at the same time creating something totally new and personal. At the Diagonale’23.
Will there ever be hope of salvation for those living on the margins of society? Norbert Pfaffenbichler seems to have a clear idea about this. But perhaps only love can save us all. And in 2551.01 it does so in a never banal or predictable way, skilfully avoiding any possible rhetoric. Inspired by Charlie Chaplin’s The Kid and presented at Diagonale 2021.