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156 siting futurity bin ich oft stundenlang durch den Wald gelaufen und stark wieder herausgekommen. Im Wald merkst du erst, was für ein starkes wildes Tier in dir steckt. Und wie sehr dieses Tier die Freiheit braucht. [I grew up in Vorarlberg in a village on the edge of a forest. When, as a child, adults caused me stress, I would often walk in the woods for hours and come out strong. In the forest you notice for the first time what kind of strong, wild animal is in you. And how much this animal needs freedom.] (Weingart- ner 2012) Weingart ner’s films draw attention to the ways in which the incursion of control society into the bourgeois family, which the unholy combination of new technologies and old fears has encouraged, has robbed its members, and particularly the chil- dren, of access to such spaces. It is not only bourgeois social institutions that Weingart ner rejects in his films. When asked in an interview conducted in conjunction with a screening of 303 in Vienna about what kind of building in Berlin he lived in, an apartment or a house, he surprised the self-declared Tirolean interviewer by telling her that he lived in the Mercedes camper that features in the film because he found he could sleep in it the best. Having suffered from problems sleeping, he had tried the camper and soon real- ized that he didn’t have to drive out into the forest but could rent a small dacha and park in the garden (B. Reiter 2018). This is neither the lifestyle kind of van living celebrated on Twitter with hashtags such as #vanlife, #vanlifeuk, #vanlifediaries, #vanliv- ing, #vanlifers, #vanlifer, and #vanlifecommunity, nor the #sad trend in the United States of the working poor having to live in their vehicles because they cannot afford anywhere else.6 In choosing not to invest in the property on which he sleeps, Weingart ner is taking a principled stand against participating in 6 For a good account of the relation between the two and the extent of and reasons for these phenomena, see Sammon (2019).