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Julia Gutweniger

Florian Kofler

Coincidence that the German word for nightmare is <em>Alptraum</em>? Rather surreal documentary observes Swiss engineers anticipating worst-case scenarios.

Increasingly, the sublime beauty of the Alps is tainted by construction works intended to protect inhabitants from natural disasters. The makers avoid any commentary, but the critical distance that accompanies their laconic observations says it all. As if the forces of nature would ever obey the human desire for control.