Oilfields Mines Hurricanes
This road movie takes the classic idea of the genre – the search for your own identity – to the absurd. For the collective production Oilfields Mines Hurricanes, eighteen different screenwriters took turns writing a scene, without any hierarchy. The series of events in their fragmentary micro stories full of duckweed, mud and glaciers show no causal relationship. The number and sequence of the scenes are based on John Cage’s 639-year organ work As SLow aS Possible.
Main character Salpa travels by car through a world that seems pretty strange – both to us, and to him. He is looking for something he’ll never find. Salpa is accompanied by a salp, a primitive fish he wears on his chin like a translucent beard. Salpa is like a migratory bird, drifting ever further from his destination. The voice-over also calls our attention to a flock of birds, which take decisions collectively, without a leader – the same way this film was made.
Film details
- Countries of production
- Germany, Iceland
- Year
- 2014
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2014
- Length
- 122'
- Medium/Format
- HDcam
