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Anna Mabo & die Buben

Freie Mitte, 2024

"Watch out for dog poop!" It's our first instruction for this video session with Anna Mabo und die Buben setting up their gear on this green space amidst the growing city. It's a Sunday afternoon at the end of winter. The constructions sites are for once calm, the grass is still brown and the faint sunlight attracts strollers. In this nature setting right in front of a tree, yet with a skyscraper backdrop the trio zips their pink overalls and starts into the performance of the still-unreleased track "Cowboy", followed by "Pyrenäentourist". The versatile artist Anna Mabo, who is also an acclaimed director in theater, seamlessly merges different worlds. Her songwriting is melancholic, romantic and also a little funny and the performance of the band gives us goosebumps and makes us want to dance at the same time.

Camera
Sarah Brugner
Yavuz Odabas
Michael Luger
Sound Recording & Mix
Alexander Yannilos
Editing
Michael Luger
Photography
Yavuz Odabas
Artist
Anna Mabo & die Buben

Freie Mitte

Freie Mitte is a new and rather unconventional park in Vienna's Nordbahnviertel, a newly developed neighbourhood on the grounds of a former train station. Freie Mitte is supposed to be both a recreational space for the inhabitants of the surrounding streets - featuring playgrounds, a dog park and meadows - and a habitat for endangered animals in its more wild and natural parts.