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Filmstill Marine Target

Marine Target

Marine Target
Lukas Marxt
German Competition Short Film 2022
Documentary Film
Austria,
Germany
2022
10 minutes
English
Subtitles: 
None

Lukas Marxt’s fourth film about the Salton Sea in Southern California focuses on 1944/45, when about 150 dummies, replicas of the bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, were dropped there for ballistic tests. “Marine Target” measures the remains of the wooden target platforms from up close and high above. The disconcerting soundtrack to this fascinating filmic study is provided by a swelling adaptation of the Nigerian hit “Atomic Bomb” by William Onyeabor.

Christoph Terhechte

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Director
Lukas Marxt
Cinematographer
Lukas Marxt
Editor
Lukas Marxt, Vanja Smiljanić
Producer
Lukas Marxt
Sound
Marcus Zilz
Score
Marcus Zilz
World Sales
Dietmar Schwärzler
International Competition 2022
Filmstill Matter Out of Place
Matter Out of Place
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
A monumental study on garbage as the shaper of landscapes and the people and machines it keeps busy: from the workings of a self-sustaining system.
Filmstill Matter Out of Place

Matter Out of Place

Matter Out of Place
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
International Competition 2022
Documentary Film
Austria
2022
105 minutes
Albanian,
Nepali,
Swiss German,
English
Subtitles: 
English

For his monumental study of displacement, Nikolaus Geyrhalter has travelled across continents, mapping a new kind of landscape that has become detached from geographical or climatic conditions under palm trees, on mountains, at rivers, in the snow. Washed up, blown in, piled up, caught or left somewhere – where once the forces of nature were at work, garbage now dominates the shape of things. It has even brought forth a new social type: the relocator.

As in all his films, Nikolaus Geyrhalter operates the camera himself. It stands still, often for minutes, as if it couldn’t believe what presents itself: plastic webs seemingly grown together with the scrawny branches on embankments, decaying newspapers and cocoa powder packaging in the excavated soil of a potato field in Switzerland, beaches seamed at the waterline by a carpet of Styrofoam and plastic containers. In equally delicately composed images, the filmmaker focuses on the machines and people who work away at these garbage landscapes. They excavate and compact, collect and sort, sweep and rake, move one thing this way and the other that way with grapplers or hands. Well-formed and without comment, the inner workings of a self-sustaining system are revealed in which a process of alienation is underway that causes problem and solution to drift apart.
Sylvia Görke

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Director
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Cinematographer
Nikolaus Geyrhalter
Editor
Samira Ghahremani, Michael Palm
Producer
Michael Kitzberger, Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Wolfgang Widerhofer, Markus Glaser
Sound
Sergey Martynyuk, Nora Czamler
Sound Design
Florian Kindlinger, Flora Rajakowitsch
World Sales
Salma Abdalla
Nominated for: Prize of the Interreligious Jury, FIPRESCI Prize, Gedanken Aufschluss Prize, Young Eyes Film Award