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I started making the film after the showing of my Film Retrospective at the Viennale in 2006, for two reasons. Firstly, I was inspired by the level of interactive interrogation with the mostly- young audiences and their clear understanding of the style, "language" and meaning of my films, especially the film I like most: The Fall. Shot in 1968. I decided it was time I made some kind of "sequel" (at least in "subject") to this film; the final film in my life- a kind of filmed MEMOIR. I had been thinking of making a film about Holography- holographic space- time and Ancient Egypt, new theories of consciousness, deriving from my novel The Risen. This was before I went to Vienna. My new idea then was to be more provocative, more committed, to finally make a film in the style I write my novels.
Secondly, I met two young women at the Vienna Festival who could ideally be in such a film- and I decided that the city of Vienna itself was the best theatre- set I could ever find; a real- life "Alphaville." It was the perfect place to make a so- called "fiction" film, shot entirely as a film documentary.
Rather that using The Risen as my starting point, I had to use my most recent novel, Terrorism Considered as One of the Fine Arts. The novel concerns an eco- terrorist assassination- and this would be the main theme of the film. One of the girls I wanted to film, Nina Erber, was in an all- girl punk rock band called "Who Killed Bambi,"...