The short film is based on research about spaces specially designed for, or appropriated by young kids in villages in the rural region of Böhmerwald, near the Austrian borders with Germany and the Czech Republic.
In four workshops with teenagers from different local youth clubs, we investigated and visited the places occupied by them in the public space or the landscape around the villages where they live. Mostly between 13 and 16, they showed us the places where they hang out and meet, and told real and invented stories about these self-defined and self-appropriated places in public space. In the workshops we wanted to take a closer look at these places, the way they are actually used, how they stage different situations and which narratives are connected to them.
The film consists of black and white drawings of the places and their protagonists. A voice-over is spoken by a young girl with an Austrian dialect, telling a story of space, time, gender, and fiction, based on the narratives collected in the workshops.