Hello,
welcome to my webpage "Fortuna Productions"!
My name is Viktoria Paar, born in Vienna 1983.
The Producer
I have had a varied professional career, beginning as a chemist for 6 years in an environmental analysis laboratory, followed by late studies in educational sciences and environmental education. Inbetween I traveled very often in backpacking style through many different countries in this world - I absorbed other cultures and local habits very loving - I was able to hear thousands of stories and since then I have known how valuable it is to capture them.
Now among other things I work at the University of Vienna at the Vienna Visual Anthropology Lab to support students to implement ethnographic films.
From 2022-24 I participate in a Co-Design project called we:design. How to design an app with teenagers, and as a filmmaker take the role of working through themes like "application to the labor market" and produce shortfilms with young people in order to gain a qualitative research approach to this topic. With this obtained data, then, in the co-design concept, to create the app.
I am also working in the film production of politically relevant readings and events, also as a documentary and portraits filmmaker.
Politics is important to me - so I participate a civil society- and political project at the local level, as a district delegates of the 20. district of Vienna at Gebietsbetreuung Stadterneuerung.
I filmed for Republikanischen Club Neues Österreich, an association in Vienna that fights anti-semitism, racism and right-wing extremism.
Further I also film for AugustinTV , and WienTV.org what is broadcasted at OKTO.TV a viennese local tv station.,
as well I produced and moderate a podcast about mental health hosted on Stationista and was broadcasted at Ö1 Radiokolleg.
In 2021 I documented an educational project with MEMORY-Zirkus im Nationalsozialimus, backstage of the circus artists, a city walk performance and an exhibition documentation.
The Anthropologist
2012 I started to study Cultural- and Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna, specializing in Visual Anthropology and documentary films. I was mainly concerned with Sensory Ethnography, as well as with ritual, affectivity and atmosphere research.
The Explorer
I always took pictures, made collages and tried to find an abstract gaze in the daily life perception. The collection of my pictures lead me to narratives.
After a while I figured out I want to tell stories with my pictures - and to use my sense of aesthetics and the magic of technology to do that.
The first videos were born.
ORGANIZED WORKFLOW
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STUDYING
It is particularly important for me to find out more of a phenomenon, especially if a topic is still somewhat unknown to me, or if I haven't had much contact with the subject yet. That means I research certain topics in advance, for example to be able to ask the right questions in an interview situation. Exploring the specific subject areas also helps to get a profound perspective during filming and this allows for precise depictions during the workflow.
EXPLORING
During the filming it is a special process - there are many cornerstones and plans that have been discussed with the protagonists, but the state of filming is one of discovery. While I'm handling the camera through space and time, the view through the camera is different than without it. I'm constantly on the lookout for the moments filled with meaning, with feelings, with tension, with emotion, with information and many more. You're looking for a meaningful moment that underscores your story and makes your narrative understandable. Like a poet, I film line by line and at the end try to create a poem in which the rhyme reflects the rhythm of the image.
CREATING
After the filming comes the actual part of the big reunion. From here my knowledge, my previous experience, the cooperation with the protagonists, the collection of footage and the technical know-how are combined into one big whole. All previous processes are now brought into a visible form by the creator and his focused view.
DISTRIBUTE
The distribution of the created videos is not random. Target groups and opportunities should be determined. Through previous activities, it is definitely possible to be able to present your content on various platforms in a large networking area. Public spheres and events, as well as broadcasting on TV, or also in the sense of an online presence are possible.
