Weltschmerz – Paper Prospect

Paper Prospect is a fashion film forming a collaboration between fashion designer Jim Unterweger and filmmaker Carl von Pfeil (both Italy). The igniting theme was to let Italo-Berlin, Street-Style fashion meet the Capetonian atmosphere and southern melancholy, following two isolated figures that live through day and night in a dream-like and nostalgic state. The clothing and design drove the production to its destination, with the black & white patterns, long, tearful, devil sleeves and an uncompromising newspaper jacket (with the words “Die Zeit”). Producing this film in Cape Town (South Africa) made this film unique with it’s 70s architectural look, the southern sunlight and the wintery, cold breeze. While the music (by Gourmet, Cape Town) takes the characters into an isolated and mysterious space, the observer follows the seek of our contemporary youth for acceptance and acknowledgement within the dark side of the city life.