Im Keller

IM KELLER is about people and basements – and what people get up to in their basements. IM KELLER is about obsessions, brass music, expensive furniture and dirty jokes, sexuality and the readiness to shoot, fitness and fascism, whips and dolls. Ulrich Seidl's new film is an essay, a tragedy, a comedy, a journey through the basement of the Austrian soul. "Many Austrians spend more time in the basement of their family home than in the living room, which often only serves a representational purpose. In the basement they indulge in their actual needs, their hobbies, passions and obsessions. In the very depths of subconsciousness, the basement is also a place of darkness, a place of fear, a place of human abysms." (Ulrich Seidl)