"Nature is a Beast" @ Esistenza Integrale, Bildraum Studio

I am glad to announce that we will premiere our film about the relation produced by the car to "Nature" - now titled "Nature is a Beast" at the group-exhibition of the Futurama.Lab at the Bildraum Studio of Ankerbrotfabrik, Vienna. The opening is on the 23rd of May and the exhibition is running until the 16th of June. Find all the infos as well as the other participating artists as well as the location here. 

Here are some infos & stills of our film:

Nature is a beast 

by Kollektiv Auto Affaire (Guus Diepenmaat, Kilian Jörg, Viktor Kössl, Sandra Sieczkowski) 

The essayistic experimental film “Nature is a beast” examines the modern relation to the environment with a focus on the car. Shot in the National Park Hohe Tauern, the film somatically explores our entanglement with lifeforms that make us desire solutions who are themselves part of the larger ecological problem. This film is motivated by the intuition that the problem of the car is not its exhaust fumes, but that it produces Nature as a modern object of veneration in itself. We want to protect Nature in the same manner we feel the desire to “go to Nature” when we want to relax and get away from our busy lifes. Motorized with fossil-fueled engines, every citizen of modern states can now approach spots of “pristine wilderness” that have been deemed inaccessible or even forbidden and ugly in earlier times. Nature thus becomes an object of consumption not unlike any other product of late capitalism. 

The film tries to approach the contradictions and unacknowledged collaborations of our modern souls in a sometimes hypnotic, sometimes humoristic manner and tries to shake what we cosmologically deem to be self-evident.