Valley Deep, Mountains High
A seemingly endless woodland – over the horizon a little bit of sky – occupies the screen. It is a landscape recording with a lot of movement. In the depth we see several layers of trees; the treetops sway in the wind. The movement becomes oddly slower when shifts take place. My Lindh works in the landscape series with landscapes that she makes protagonists of her films through means of movement; they take on medial lives of their own. In the process, the relation of the nature recordings to the watching audience also starts to shake.… >>>
The exploration tour begins outside in a winter landscape. In front of snow-covered trees, a hiker climbs a mountain. However, the expanse of the landscape is soon replaced by a view of extreme narrowness. Marcin Polar’s film is a cinematic journey in a deeply hidden landscape inside the mountain. A branched system of caves opens itself over time. Tied to the body of the person winding through the landscape, the cinema becomes a fluid experience of tightness and exposedness. Only a small light beam accompanies the journey through the mountain; all around it is darkness and boundaries… >>>
How do a landscape and the inhabitants within sound? A large pasture area in the Alps is the work place for a sundry of shepherds and farmers. Over long distances, their calls intermingle and echo against the rocks. The communication turns into a song, a question about who is addressing whom, and who – and in what form – is answering. Hannes Lang portrays people who lead isolated lives in the mountains and work in front of a backdrop of great panoramas. But not only do the calls of people move over the meadows and slopes; large herds of animals, too, produce their own world of sound.… >>>
A form of music produced in the throat and also a game between two women who are watching each other; a tradition of the Inuit. Their singing connects an entire area, icy snow drifts in front of the bright sky comprise the starting point, where the two singers stand facing one another. The journey through seasons, snapshots and towns begins here. The two filmmakers produce THROAT SINGING as an expression of their attachment to the place where they grew up.… >>>
- Director: Eva Kaukai,Manon Chamberland
A long tracking shot over the island Funafuti in Tuvalu, Archipelago, connects rhythmically diverse times and conditions of the island with one another. In beautiful composition and in a contradictory way, a catastrophe is announced: the imminent loss of the country. The portrait of the island captures both conditions; the land, as well as the water which will swallow it. Consecutively, and through its rhythm, the film succeeds in creating the simultaneity of the situations.… >>>
