A film about a stairwell, and to be more precise, about the people who inhabit it. It is a cinematic representation of what a silent observer would glean from the lives of the tenants. Moments of everyday life are shown that are seen, heard and felt in the periphery of the stairwell. The stairwell is the connecting element of these “stories” in which these fragments coincide and leave room for interpretation and association at the same time.

Claudia Dermutz was born in Carinthia, Austria in 1979. She studied Multimedia Art and Painting in Vienna before obtaining a master’s degree in Film Directing at the Filmakademie in Vienna. Her focus is the intersectionality between art and film as well as literary elements and narration in film and conceptual art. She has directed various shorts and created numerous Art in Public Space projects. Currently, she is based in Vienna, Austria, and Würzburg, Germany.