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REGIONAL_EXPRESS


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EXCURSION 1 - GMUNDEN - EBENSEE
EXCURSION 2 - EBENSEE - BAD ISCHL
EXCURSION 3 - BAD ISCHL - HALLSTATT
EXCURSION 4 - HALLSTATT - BAD AUSSEE
EXCURSION 5 - BAD AUSSEE - GMUNDEN


Voices: Chris Lohner (Train), Patrick Lamb (Mountain), Yaqi Cang (Mermaid)

Directing, Storytelling: Petra Ardai
Production, Research: Marlene Rutzendorfer
Artistic Direction: Ella Raidel
Music, Sound Design: Sander Saarmets
Sound: Matthias Kassmannhuber
Animation: Susi Jirkuff
Assistant: Kerstin Reyer





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The train in motion as a narrator, time travelers, and the landscape as cinema.

Regional_Express is an audiovisual experience on the regional railroad line; a journey from the past into the future. Petra Ardai created this docu-fiction narrative about how the landscape, salt and industry shaped the region.
You can board the train in Gmunden, Ebensee, Bad Ischl, Hallstatt and Bad Aussee. During the journey, passengers can hear a conversations of the Train, the Mountain and the Traunsee Mermaid, interspersed with fragments of interviews conducted with people from the region:

Katharina Steiner (Salinen Austria AG),
Johannes Weidinger (Geologist, Kammerhofmuseum Gmunden),
Wolfgang Quatember (Historian, Zeitgeschichte Museum Ebensee),
Macdonald Chiemezie Nwokeji (Hello Africa! Freies Radio Salzkammergut),
Jasmin Grieshofer (Österreichische Bundesforste),
Silvia Dinhof Cueto and Leo Kuhn (in remembrance of their fathers),
Alexander Savel (Journalist, Traunspiegel),
Noelia Torres de Glasser (Austria Guide),
Alexander de Goederen (Kurdirektion bookstore),
Ines Schiller (Mayor, Bad Ischl),
Ariane Herzog (Salinen Austria AG),
Guggi Spitzer, Pauline Lahnsteiner Kienesberger & Ingrid Lahnsteiner (Frauenforum Salzkammergut),
Bernd Dankelmayr (Mountain Rescue Obertraun),
Riki Müllegger & Konrad Wallinger (Kino Ebensee),
Gerhard Wieser (Salinen Austria AG),
Shirin Abo Zraa (Spiegel der Seele, Radio Salzkammergut),
Margarete Stüger (Ebensee local),
Dankfried Kirsch (Pastor, Hallstatt)

Musicians
Hemma Oberleithner & Gemischter Chor Altmünster
Students of Private ORG Vöcklabruck
Gebirgsbirnbambeidler

www.regional-express.org

Regional Express is a LIVING HERITAGE project that highlights certain aspects of history to invite audiences to reflect on their lives now. The interviews were conducted and edited as part of a work of art. All voices speak from personal experience, including childhood memories but also professional expertise.