What’s a Grand Tour without an excursion outside Europe? Some aspects of European culture are better preserved in distant exceptions. Mexican Artist Pablo Sigg worked for four years on this ‘European’ project filmed in Paraguay.
In 1886, inspired by Wagner, Elisabeth Nietzsche (sister of Friedrich) left for Paraguay to realise her ideal along with her anti-Semitic husband Bernhard Förster and 14 Aryan families: the foundation of Nueva Germania, a racially pure German colony in the Paraguayan jungle.
More than a century later, the last living descendants of this racial experiment are the Schweikhart brothers, who since childhood have lived very isolated lives on the remote piece of land Förster sold to their forefathers. As a relic of the Aryan dream, the men lead an almost biblical existence in an area where topography seems to acquire form in the theoretical and the utopian. See also What an Excellent Day for an Exorcism in compilation programme POST SCRIPT in Regained.
Film details
- Country of production
- Mexico
- Year
- 2013
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 61'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
