Lukas Marxt offers a disquieting exploration of the Salton Sea – a site haunted by traces of catastrophic US nuclear testing. The images and sounds, at first, feign impersonality: as a drone camera slowly descends to a small, long-abandoned marine target in the water, a sober female voice rattles off the dry, official, military facts. The sights of dead birds, wire fences that lead to voids, and ominously broken pipelines hint at a darker backstory.
– Adrian Martin
Also in this combined programme
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KLITCLIQUE – Zu zweit
Not exactly a music video, but a queer-anarchist audio-visual manifesto from radical Austrian duo KLITCLIQUE. -
Mar(i)cona
The filmmaker navigates between a trans identity forged in the city, and rural family roots. -
Dreams of G
An immersion into the surreal dreams and visions of a young woman haunted by loneliness. -
A White Screen Is Visible
The sensations and perceptions experienced in parasomniac states are brilliantly rendered in this hypnotic dream exploration. -
HUMUS (multiplexing)
Between figurative and abstract, this one-man show is like Busby Berkeley for the digital age. -
Marseille après la guerre
A collection of photographs of Marseille dockworkers; a compelling homage to Senegalese filmmaker Ousmane Sembène. -
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Austria, Germany
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 10'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
