MOVIE • 2023

Dust Devil

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The desert is often mobilised in science fiction films to simulate worlds ravaged by resource depletion and climate change or outer worlds hostile to life. A visual filter applied to the landscape intensifies the conventional perception of the desert, accentuates that technological representation of nature and nature itself are inseparable from man-made transformation. Ghostly entanglement of deep time, unsettling present and imagined future haunt the landscape, the film unfolds into a bizarre interplanetary journey that oscillates between documentary and climate fiction, nature and artificial, life and non-life.