Minihorror

In the midst of this ordinary life, all kinds of dangers lurk unexpectedly: from a lack of pension provision to an attack by blood-sucking bedbugs and a housing shortage caused by the resurrection of the dead.

Fortunately, at least Mini and Miki have each other, but when they meet each other’s family, even their familiar counterparts become a big mystery. Then Miki’s painstakingly acquired BKS language skills are nowhere near enough to understand why Mini’s relatives bury her in a hole, and Mini is more than puzzled to learn that in Miki’s Austrian hometown, the men go about their business once a year dressed as monsters.

In “Minihorror”, author Barbi Marković, who was born in Belgrade and lives in Austria, sends her two protagonists into the abysses of everyday adventures. In a fast-paced, episodic narrative tempo, as we only know it from comics, she strings together one crazy anecdote from Mini and Miki’s lives after another, creating a maelstrom from which there is no escape. Director Branko Janack and his artistic team turn everyday horror into playful reality in the Schauraum.