COOK, EAT & CLEAN – Ritual of Disobedience 

SAT 20 NOV

Reign of Silence 

Director: LUKAS MARXT

Format: Short Film

Duration: 7:30 min

Short description

Reign of Silence records a human intervention in nature. Lukas Marxt explores the tension between autonomous natural processes and artistic intervention, focusing on the shifting relationship between humans, environment, and water. More than a kind of filmic memory of a passing moment. The film not only documents something; it actually lays the filmic image over this landscape like a transparency, as a second artistic medium, indicating something beyond it and expanding the perspective. Marxt looks for a perceptual dimension that demands not only a reaction to nature as a spectacle, but also to the circumstances in which it was reproduced, and finds for this purpose a concentrated and playful form. Until it all ends as it began: with a view of serene, undisturbed water and in silence, with a form that finds its way back to itself, and which has transitioned to something different.

BIO

Lukas Marxt (*1983, Austria) is an artist and filmmaker living and working between Cologne and Graz. His work explores the dialogue between human and geological existence, and the impact of man upon nature. His works have been presented internationally in exhibitions and film festivals, including the Berlinale and the Gijón International Film Festival.

Credits

Concept & RealizationLukas Marxt

Supported by: bm:ukk