A History of Mutual Respect

With Gabriel Abrantes’s prodigious Rotterdam 2010 entry Visionary Iraq we asked whether things could get any more wrong? The good news is that they do. Playing the ludicrously self-confident protagonists of their film, Abrantes & Schmidt head for the jungle. It’s a work of great imagination, biting chunks from the rule-book, pitching cliché against cliché and with an opening that couples the sublime Iguazu Falls with the husky wisdom of Nina Simone. Mesmerising!