Seite - 152 - in Siting Futurity - The “Feel Good” Tactical Radicalism of Contemporary Culture in and around Vienna

152 siting futurity generation being rebelled against “offers a moment of reflection on the trajectory of West German political activism since the 1960s, the zeal of the younger generation, the so-called 89ers who have come of age since unification, being countered by the tired pragmatism of this 68er” (ibid., 96). What both Palfreyman and Cooke and Stone are sensitive to is what Weingarter’s shift in The Edukators to the mountains makes possible. Time there is slowed down by shifting from movement-images to time-images (Cooke and Stone 2013, 96), and a different kind of relation is called forth by “the one sleep- ing area in the hut,” a relation “which emphasises kinship, the kinship of the mountains” (Palfreyman 2011, 182). What kind of kinship is this? Palfreyman describes the foursome as some- where between a family group and a commune (ibid., 182), which gets at the fundamental exploration driving Weingart- ner’s oeuvre: how to form a collectivity that is good for both its members and their larger society and frees everyone from the curse of property and feelings of possessiveness. That ur- ban development contributes to this curse is made clear both in The Edukators and in his contribution to Deutschland 09, “Gefährder” [“Potential Threat”], in which the sociologist An- drej Holm, the eponymous threat of the title, is shown lecturing on gentrification. But what about Weingart ner’s own relation to the non-urban? Generally, in his films such spaces are those of freedom and exploration. The psychically damaged male protagonists in his schizophrenia films seek out the solace of the sea and the for- est, while for those in his capitalism films, the road, and the mountains and coasts it invariably leads to, provides a space to probe the limits of monogamous relationships. The Edukators and 303 undermine the German romantic tradition of solitary Byronic wanderers on mountaintops by translating it into the contemporary idiom of online dating: it is not conquering they are interested in but in connecting. With 303 Weingart ner set out to make a film in which his protagonists try not to fall in love, but like their namesakes in The Edukators, they find it is not to be avoided and so needs to be accommodated into their