Austria from Above – Journeys in a Balloon

Josef Huber, one of Austria’s best balloonists, takes to the skies and floats high above the autumn landscapes as he ponders the joys and dangers of his profession and the amazing journeys he undertook for the ORF documentary format UNIVERSUM: over Lake Neusiedl, across Upper Austria’s Alm Valley, above the Vienna Woods, and into the Carnic Alps and the moors of the southern Burgenland province.

Five episodes of four minutes each for the ORF format “Herbstzeit”. Writer and Director: Manfred Christ, Camera: Bernhard Wallentin, Edit: Adi Wallisch. Commissioned by the ORF, 2007.