Vienna – Schiele, Klimt and Waber

by aparnamalladi

Have been travelling all over California and now Europe.  Vienna was a surprise.  I wasnt planning on taking the trip when suddenly I got an email from Hannes Kollmann from my Redondo Beach days in Los Angeles.  Austria got added to the itenary.

A minute after my arrival in Vienna I get a call from my producer Pierre Assouline.  He is planning to come to London the 10th and 11th and we are going shopping for casting directors and also for my lead for Ánushree´.  Raj Pippalla introduces me to a casting agent in London as well and I start to set up the meetings.

The girl that Vijay Singh suggested emails me back and I plan to meet her in London.  She seems almost perfect for the part.  Well, I am keeping my fingers crossed.  Itś always trying to find a needle in a haystack. However (as Prakash Jha once told me), the needle is sometimes at the top of the haystack.  I am standing for that.

My art show has been announced for April 3rd in Frankfurt.  Got an email from Irene Balmanoukian about it. It was in German and could not understand a word except my name and Ireneś.  I have no idea what to expect, but I am excited and cannot wait.  I leave for Frankfurt on 29th morning from Wien.

As much as I am enjoying my European trip, I can wait to get to Hyderabad and start work on Anushree full on.  At Canserrat during one of my low phases, artist Halle Kareem (Oslo) told me that I would have to find some way of getting horny about my film project all over again.  Somewhere along this trip – Meeting Vijaya Singh and seeing footage of a possible Ánushree´, Pierre coming to London to help cast, meeting various filmmakers and artist in Paris and Vienna etc. has all started to wake me up to my project in a whole new way.

I am planning to visit Sigmund Freudś museum today to see his famous couch.  maybe he can analyse why I am feeling the way I do. Why travelling has this kind of effect on people.  Why it changes a human being in so many profound ways and with such speed. Why you meet a part of yourself that you cannot meet when you are in one place.  All questions for Mr. Freud.

David, an artist in France told me that big things happen in a small way.  The jump is almost silent and it all happens slowly in small steps.  I can see my film getting made that way.  Silently in small steps.

Next post will be from Frankfurt.

Luv,

Aparna