“The Fortune You Seek is in Another Cookie” is a dizzying journey around the world in search for happiness as a poetic and political practice. The film is stargazing and a quest for meaning. It is a montage of a multi-year excursion that describes the subjective view of the world according to the filmmaker.

The filmmaker finds himself at the protests in and around Gezi Park, Istanbul; in front of the gates of the Cinecitta in Rome, and on the streets of Santiago de Chile. Whether in the Atacama desert or a trailer park in California, he attempts to find a description of the universal longing. The collision of image, text and sound finds its counterpart in the seemingly contrary locations and scenes. The Devil's Dance meets the indulgence of astronomical precision and death at the foot of an ocean.

About Johannes Gierlinger

Johannes Gierlinger was born in 1985, and grew up in the countryside in Austria. His films have been screened and exhibited at various Filmfestivals and Institutions like the CPH:DOX Copehagen, Cork Filmfestival, Kassel Dokfest, Transcinema Lima, Ibaff Murcia, Diagonale Graz, Mumok Vienna, Alternative Film Belgrade, Documentarist Istanbul, Kunstforum Vienna and many more.

Johannes lives and works in Vienna.