Salvation
INSTITUTE: University for Music and Performing Arts / Filmacademy, Vienna 
YEAR: 2014
LANGUAGE: German
SYNOPSIS: Andreas loves filming anything that comes in front of his camera. He especially enjoys shooting videos, in which he and his friends Clemens and Dina pretend to kill themselves. When Andreas massively exaggerates and carelessly throws himself onto some subway tracks only to shock his best friend, Clemens understands he has had enough and quits their friendship. Andreas seeks refuge in Dina’s company but overlooks her real intentions.
PROFILE: Mark Gerstorfer was born in 1979 in Austria and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna between 2003-2005. In 2005 he started studying Directing and Cinematography at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna/ Filmacademy Vienna. He believes that films are the union between storytelling and photography, two things he has been interested in since he was a boy. His curiosity for the cinematographic techniques have driven him to understand how a film is structured “from the inside”.
