Direction: Sofie Benoot, Belgium 2014, 113 min., FSK not specified
Daniel Falb makes a film plea for a multi-layered portrait of an American desert and its inhabitants
The American West. We have arrived in a world where human life seems impossible: an arid, mythical landscape characterised by absence. Absence of water, trees, life. In the beginning there was nothing. But then traces begin to appear.
Desert Haze tells the multi-layered story of human presence in the American desert. The traces of the past are like geological layers in the desert. The film becomes a mosaic of different stories that come together to form a peculiar chronicle of America at the intersection of present and past, myth and reality.
From astronauts preparing for future missions to Mars, Japanese country singers, archaeologists searching for the remains of military test planes, to the mysterious death of John Wayne...
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