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An Interview with Wolf Morrison, Director and Star of Lost in Vienna, Austria

by Mike Haberfelner

April 2020

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Your movie Lost in Vienna, Austria - in a few words, what is it about?

 

It's about love, passion and things that are not like they look at first sight.

 

With Lost in Vienna, Austria being a revenge thriller of sorts, is that a genre at all dear to you, and some of your genre favourites?

 

I always liked Wes Craven's The Last House on the Left, the film had a huge impression on me. I like to watch revenge thrillers from time to time but I'm not that big fan.

 

(Other) sources of inspiration when writing Lost in Vienna, Austria?

 

The work of David Lynch, especially Inland Empire, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive, The Trial by Orson Welles, The Roller Blade Seven by Donald G. Jackson and Scott Shaw, The Prisoner (the 60s series with Patrick McGoohan), and of course events in my own life. I once met a young girl who was a writer, she wrote very sad poems. She a real sweetheart but so shy and sensitive. When I heard that she had commited suicide my life fell apart. This film is also dedicated to her memory.

 

Lost in Vienna, Austria at one point ditches its linear storyline in favour of more associative storytelling - so what was the idea behind that, was it intended from square one or did it only happen in the edit, and how easy or hard was it for you to not just literally lose your plot in the process?

 

It was in my script from the beginning on. I wanted to make an homage to the films of David Lynch, very surreal with a few plot twists. I never lost the plot because I always had this story in my mind.

 

What can you tell us about your overall directorial approach to your story at hand?

 

I wrote 2 years on the script, added some scenes and took out scenes that I thought would not be necessary to the story. In July 2012 I was ready to start filming with a new camera equipment, filter, gels and lenses.

 

You're also made the music for Lost in Vienna, Austria - so do talk about the score of your movie for a bit, and your musical influences?

 

I needed a very dramatical soundtrack for that film, so I performed very heavy string arrangements on my keyboard. As a musician my influences are John Williams, Tim Buckley, The Doors, Jethro Tull, Van Morrison.

 

Also, you play the lead in Lost in Vienna, Austria - so what can you tell us about your character, what did you draw upon to bring him to life, and did you write him with yourself in mind from the get-go?

 

Yes, I wrote the lead role with myself in mind. Scott is not a real hero, even if he looks like one in the beginning of the film, but he's more of a complex character, and of course I put some scenes from my own life into the script to bring him to life.

 

Do talk about the rest of your cast, and why exactly these people?

 

I met my lead actress Julia Prock-Schauer on the set of the film I did before, Blood City Massacre, in which she had a small role, and I liked her performance, her beauty and her expressive face so much that I offered her the lead role in Lost in Vienna, Austria. Seth Raven had a bigger part in one of my earlier films, Vampire City 2: Rock 'N Roll Zombies from Outer Space, and he was so good in that film that I wanted him for the role of Frank Househover, Julie's evil boss. He's a wrestler, so he knows how to produce himself. I met Humugus, who plays Scott's manager Tom, at a bar where Biggie Waite had worked as a waitress. Humugus is also a pro-wrestler and a great guy to work with, and I've worked with both of them, Biggie and Humungus, many times since we did Vampire City - Rock 'N Roll Vampires from Hell. Many of the supporting actors came from a casting agency, only Emanuel Nicolae Sereny was a real bartender, he was the son of the owner and worked at that bar we were filming at. He was a nice guy, so it took some time to get a performance out of him as a mean guy.

 

A few words about the shoot as such, and the on-set atmosphere?

 

Although it's a very dramatic film the shoot itself was one of the best and most relaxing I've ever had. My lead actress Julia was so wonderful to work with, a real pleasure. The atmosphere was very friendly.

 

Anything you can tell us about audience and critical reception of Lost in Vienna, Austria?

 

It was the saddest premiere I've ever had in Vienna. It was June and it was cold and raining. Only a handful of people showed up at the theatre and a lot of people disliked the film because it was a more serious film and not a trash movie like my previous ones. Even filmmaker Houchang Allahyari told me that he liked my trash films much more than this one. The positive responses came from the USA. Art from the Underground Horror Film Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma told me that he liked the film so much that he screened it many times, later also at the Old Town Film Fest there.

 

Any future projects you'd like to share?

 

I've just finished a documentary about Vienna's young female music scene, The Sound of Young Vienna, which will have a theatrical premiere at the Schikaneder Cinema in May (if Corona doesn't stop it). And I am writing on the script for a film project in the style of Lost in Vienna, Austria, the working title is Siren's Call.

 

What got you into filmmaking in the first place, and did you receive any formal training on the subject?

 

I never went to film school but I've always had a love for films. I always thought it's way too expensive to make a film. Then in 2007 I read Robert Rodriguez' book Rebel without a Crew and it was amazing to find out that on his first film El Mariachi he himself was the whole crew. He also composed most of the eoundtrack and edited the film. So I tried to follow his footsteps. 

 

What can you tell us about your past filmwork other than Lost in Vienna, Austria?

 

After some disappointments with my first film Wild Rebel I wanted to do films that are just fun, so I came upon making some funny and crazy trash movies: Vampire City - Rock 'N Roll Vampires from Hell was released in March 2009 and was the first film that also got a premiere in the USA at the Tromadance Festival in Indiana. Vampire City 2: Rock 'N Roll Zombies from Outer Space had its premiere in Vienna on Halloween 2009 and also had a successful screening in the USA at the Underground Horror Film Festival in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In late 2010 I met filmmaker Houchang Allahyari who made me an offer I couldn't refuse: He would lend me his camera, sound and lighting equipment and also his cameraman for my next film if I allow him to make a documentary about me and film me while I'm filming my next movie Blood City Massacre. Blood City Massacre came out in November 2011 and is also my most successful film on YouTube. The documentary was called Robert Tarantino - Rebel Without a Crew, and it had its premiere at the Diagonale in March 2013 and later had a theatrical release in September 2013.

 

You make films in Vienna, Austria - so what can you tell us about the city's indie filmscene?

 

Indie filmmakers here in Vienna are more of an island. They're not very communicative and hard to get in touch with. They only contact me whenever I release a new film project and ask me for financing their projects, which I have to deny them because my films are all no-budget projects.

 

How would you describe yourself as a director?

 

I'm very passionate, very caring and love to work with my actresses and actors.

 

Filmmakers who inspire you?

 

David Lynch, Orson Welles, Francis Ford Coppola, Donald G. Jackson, Alejandro Jodorowsky.

 

Your favourite movies?

 

Inland Empire, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, The Trial, The Roller Blade Seven, Hell Comes to Frogtown, Amer, The Holy Mountain.

 

... and of course, films you really deplore?

 

My very first film Wild Rebel was meant to be a drama but a lot of things went wrong. My camera crew left a few days before the filming because they got a paid job, so I did it all by myself, all I had was a sound engineer whose equipment could only be used indoors. On the first day of filming a storm came up and ruined my camera equipment so I had to continue filming with a cheap camcorder, actors showed up for one day and never came back, and I made so many mistakes as a cameraman, I crossed the line too many times. But after all the time, passion and energy I put into this project I had to complete the film even if Wild Rebel didn't turned out the way I wanted it. The positive thing is that I've learned from my mistakes.

 

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Anything else you're dying to mention and I have merely forgotten to ask?

 

For filmmakers: If you want to make a movie, go out, grab your camera and just do it! Don't let anybody stop you! You don't need much money to make a film, just passion, love and dedication!

 

Thanks for the interview!

 

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