Béla Baptiste

FLUCHTPUNKT

6’18” Austria 2018

This 360 ° audio-visual experience tells of four interwoven stories playing out simultaneously, inviting the viewer to decide where to look. Tonight is the great vernissage, the first major exhibition of the up-and-coming artist Carlotta Carlsen. While some young girls mock her work, the important buyer Karl-Heinz Sutheheim waits impatiently–what could be delaying the artist’s arrival? She is stuck at home because her impulsive ex-boyfriend, Raul, has unexpectedly appeared to confront her. Their fight reaches its peak when, in the back alley, two robbers fleeing from the police see Carlotta’s window as a ticket to freedom.

Béla Baptiste
Born 17.03.1988 in Berlin and raised in Paris since 1990. Coming from an artistic family: dancers, potters, photographers, singers and writers living cross over Europe: from Belfast to Cyprus, via London, Zürich and Serbia. Since 2010, he studies directing at the Academy of Film and Television in Vienna under the supervision of professors Michael Haneke, Peter Patzak, Wolfgang Murnberger and Wolfgang Thaler. 2014 Bachelor Degree with Mention. Since 2014 Master Studies in directing.