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155 capitalism, scHizopHrenia, and #Vanlife number one factor for happiness is social proximity. ‘Hap- piness is only real when shared.’ That is a sentence from the film Into the Wild, which was one of the models for my film.] (B. Reiter 2018) He has his edukators invade well-appointed bourgeois dwellings in Berlin-Zehlendorf in the city’s posh south-west to draw at- tention to the fact that the relations such spaces encourage are mediated by commodities and work not only to increase social distance, particularly between the generations usually housed in such structures, but to pit them against each other as well as against those in neighboring dwellings, to wit — keeping up with the Joneses by having higher quality possessions, going on vacation to more exotic destinations, and having one’s offspring go to more prestigious schools, all of which, of course, are not merely more expensive but work to limit value to its monetary meaning. As cliched as it sounds, Weingart ner’s films suggest that, for him, home is where the heart is, which, given the provision that the heart is a revolutionary cell, implies that the bourgeoisie are heartless. Home, in this understanding, can be anywhere, as long as it remains open to one’s fellow travelers. The way Weingart ner has come to realize the value of his own upbringing in Feldkirch has no doubt contributed to the contempt with which he depicts institutionalized forces in his films. Having grown up with seven siblings, Weingart ner became accustomed early on to finding his own way: “An meinem ersten Schultag, das weiß ich noch genau, sagte mir keiner aus der Familie, wo die Schule ist, ich wusste nicht einmal, ob ich schon im richtigen Alter bin” [“On my first day of school, I still remember it exactly, no one in my family told me where the school was and I didn’t even know if I was the right age”] (B. Reiter 2018). Moreover, that upbringing took place on the edge of a forest he could escape into whenever adults caused him stress: Ich bin in Vorarlberg in einem Dorf am Waldrand aufge- wachsen. Wenn ich als Kind mit Erwachsenen Stress hatte,