In The Basement

Though the title positions the latest Ulrich Seidl documentary as being about basements, in actuality it’s mostly focused on the people within them. Whilst the paraphernalia and oddities on show in the dens of these Austrian citizens tends to amuse, shock or confuse, Seidl is focused on what these spaces can tell us about these people, and thereafter who these people see themselves as; in an interview with the Austrian Film Commission he said that the basement is “the place where people atta...