Interim Use

Vienna's imposing central railway station includes monochrome office buildings and apartment blocks in the city's Sonnwend quarter, but in Dariusz Kowalski's INTERIM USE it solely serves as an incidental backdrop in front of which kids from Vienna's Favoriten neighborhood play soccer. This documentary is not about engineered urban planning, instead it is concerned with haphazardly evolved sites – a niche well hidden in the no man's land between Vienna's highway system and former industrial buildings. It is here where a defunct meat processing factory stands, sliced into spaces for a colorful group of entrepreneurs and creative artists to use....