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Desert - Who Is the Man?
IDFA 2007

Desert - Who Is the Man?

Felix Tissi
Switzerland
2007
80 min
World Premiere
Festival history

What has modern man lost in the desert? Above all, himself. \par DESERT Who is the Man? confronts, in the Nowhere of the desert, strange figures of a long-gone future: scientists, searchers, fanatics and free spirits, the roaming and the stranded, suicides, survivors and mutants. \par The desert of today does not speak about itself, but about us. Of both the beginning and end of time, it becomes the other-worldly projection screen \par for dreams, hallucinations and visions. \par But despite all his absurd attempts, in the vastness and magnificence of the desert man is miraculously shown to be what he is: small. \par DESERT Who is the Man? is an \lquote archeological science-fiction film\rquote , an ecstatic journey far from all material needs.

Credits
Director
Involved TV Channel
    ARTE France 4,
    SF,
    SRG SSR Idee Suisse
    ARTE France 4,
    SF,
    SRG SSR Idee Suisse
World Sales
    Accent Films International Ltd.
    Accent Films International Ltd.
Screening copy
    Balzli & Fahrer Filmproduktion
    Balzli & Fahrer Filmproduktion