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DOUBLE HAPPINESS
WITH INTRO SPEECH AND POST-SCREENING Q&A WITH DIRECTOR ELLA RAIDEL AND CURATOR MARLENE RUTZENDORFER MODERATED BY KENNETH TAN
Ella Raidel | 2014 | Documentary | 72 Minutes | German, Mandarin, English (with English subtitles) | Austria | PG
An Austrian Alpine village gets a Chinese twin: Hallstatt, rebuilt full-scale as a luxury development near Shenzhen. Ella Raidel moves between the two, mixing documentary images, miniature models and karaoke-like interludes. Playful, provocative and visually seductive, DOUBLE HAPPINESS asks whether a copy can produce meanings and memories of its own.
Screened at over 60 international film festivals
DOK Leipzig, Official Selection, Competition Young Cinema (2014)
CPH:DOX, Official Selection (2014)
Hot Docs, Official Selection (2015)
BAFICI, Official Selection, International Competition (2015)
ELLA RAIDEL
Ella Raidel is an Austrian filmmaker, visual artist, and artistic researcher based in Singapore. For the inaugural Austrian Film Festival Singapore, she served as festival advisor, contributing suggestions and expertise to the development and selection of the film programme.
She is Assistant Professor at NTU’s School of Art, Design and Media and has lived and worked in Asia for more than two decades. Her practice explores architecture, urban transformation, and ecological imaginaries through experimental film, performative documentary, and immersive media. She received the Outstanding Artist Award for Feature and Documentary Film from the Austrian Ministry for Culture in 2022 and the Grand State Prize for Culture in Film & Video from the State of Upper Austria in 2026.
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