1. And when the action is pre-recorded and takes place in a distant time and space, watching seems like a passive activity.

2. 15 His long-term forecast, despite the uncertainties, portrays a distant time when the world's continents come together again to form a new supercontinent, which he calls Pangea Ultima.

3. The public agitation about the repressed NS past of the Federal Presidential candidate Kurt Waldheim gives ‘Paper Bridge’ an extra twist towards the end: the film changes, if only for a few minutes, from a search for traces that seem to lead to another distant time, into something very contemporary, into a piece of agitprop, for topical reasons; Ruth Beckermann becomes similarly resolute in her dramaturgy fourteen years later in her film ‘homemad(e)’ (2001), where she reacts to a political topicality: the shift to the right in Austria caused by the FPÖ’s participation in the government in February 2000.