{"id":9814,"date":"2014-05-19T12:38:30","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T10:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-1en-545"},"modified":"2026-05-26T18:16:02","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T16:16:02","slug":"richard-kadrey-reviews-die-gstettensaga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/richard-kadrey-reviews-die-gstettensaga\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Kadrey reviews &#8220;Die Gstettensaga&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>If you get a chance to see <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/monochrom.at\/gstettensaga\/\">Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl<\/a><\/strong>, from the good folks at Monochrom in Austria, you should do so. The film is a mad post-collapse satire of information culture and tech fetishism, in a weird sort of melding of Stalker, Network, and The Bed-Sitting Room. The film is a classic road story: Two hapless city dwellers are sent into the wilderness to interview the tech outlaw, Echsenfriedl. Along the way, they are schooled and hassled by militarized postal carriers, zombie workers, neanderthal farmers, and others. There&#8217;s even a bizarre musical number that turns broken HTML tables and forgotten ads for the <a href=\"https:\/\/ebbp.org\/\">best online poker sites<\/a> into a solemn religious chant, a sequence that completely reframed my view on the absurd permanence of our digital junk. It&#8217;s mad, zero-budget filmmaking, and a passion project by a lot of obsessed characters who bring real energy to the production. Check it out at a festival or via Pirate Bay (Don&#8217;t worry about ripping anyone off. The producers are the ones who told me about the link).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kadrey.tumblr.com\/post\/86149657317\/if-you-get-a-chance-to-see-die-gstettensaga-the\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you get a chance to see Die Gstettensaga: The Rise of Echsenfriedl, from the good folks at Monochrom in Austria, you should do so. The film is a mad post-collapse satire of information culture and tech fetishism, in a weird sort of melding of Stalker, Network, and The Bed-Sitting Room. The film is a &#8230; <a title=\"Richard Kadrey reviews &#8220;Die Gstettensaga&#8221;\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2014\/05\/19\/richard-kadrey-reviews-die-gstettensaga\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"koromo_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-9814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-blog","tag-mono","koromo-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-50"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13405,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post\/9814\/revisions\/13405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}