Experimental

World at Stake

A film by Total Refusal
Country: Austria
Year: 2025
Length: 17'35"

Festivals
1. IFFR International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands, January 2025)
2. Diagonale - Festival des Österreichischen Films (Austria, March 2025)
3. Regard sur le court-métrage au Saguenay - Festival de Chicoutimi (Canada, March 2025)
4. FebioFest Bratislava (Slovakia, March 2025)
5. Sprouts Film Festival (Netherlands, April 2025)

Synopsis
A golfer fails to strike, a soccer team plays against itself and a rally co-driver faces an identity crisis. They are surrounded by an audience unable to act. Shot in sports video games, the film "A World At Stake" turns the ordering principles of victory and defeat upside down and negotiates social roles between individual sovereignty and collective passivity. In the face of catastrophe, a feeling of political powerlessness remains. Nothing less than the world is at stake.

Cast
Voice acting: Jacob Banigan, Jan-Wieger van der Berg
3D Model: Patrik Tagunoff
NPCs in the video games: FIFA 2023, PGA Tour 2k21 , DiRT Rally 2.0

Crew
Director: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
Screenplay: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
Producer: BMKÖS & ORF III, Pixel, Bytes + Film Stipend
Cinematographer: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
Sound recording: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
Sound design: Bernhard Zorzi
Editor: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
Composer: Adrian Jonas Haim
Modding: Nikola Supukovic, Jakob Sam
Color correction: Susanna Flock, Adrian Jonas Haim, Jona Kleinlein
Title design: Michael Stumpf

Supported by „Pixel, Bytes + Film“ Stipendium vom Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport (BMKÖS) in Kooperation mit ORF III