Oilfields Mines Hurricanes

An absurd journey that, unlike the typical road movie, does not lead to building the main character’s identity but to its deconstruction. This poetic experiment – the screenplay was inspired by the structure of a song by John Cage that is to be played over the course of centuries on an Organ²/ASLSP (As SLow aS Possible) – was written by dozens of individual artists from the Schuldenberg Foundation collective. Salpa, with his beard in a rubber band, drives his car through an incomprehensible but alluring world. Moving through monochromatic, minimalistic landscapes, he gets increasingly further from the Icelandic glacier from where he set out, and he is delighted by a story he hears about a flock of birds that froze in the air and fell to the ground. His goal is to reach Halberstadt, where Cage’s work, to be played over the course of 639 years, continues. We get to experience Salpa’s story, drifting, as he himself is, among images and sounds, freed from the rigors of a plot, from the relationship between cause and effect.   

Agnieszka Szeffel