{"id":17857,"date":"2025-06-12T19:38:26","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/?p=17857"},"modified":"2025-06-12T19:59:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T17:59:06","slug":"christoph-schwarz-on-strike-and-on-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/svjmedia.nl\/internationaljournalism\/17857\/christoph-schwarz-on-strike-and-on-set\/","title":{"rendered":"Christoph Schwarz: on strike and on set"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a busy Vienna street, a yellow Cabriolet is parked on the side. Its interior transformed into a garden of soil and thriving herbs. At sunset, coming back from his studio at WH university, Christoph Shwarz waters the plants. He doesn\u2019t only nurture the plants, but also his quiet battle against a society rooted in capitalist structures and indifferent to climate justice.<\/p>\n<p>Born in 1981 in Vienna, Christoph Shwarz started his artistic journey with filmmaking. 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