Genres
Oilfields Mines Hurricanes
Based on John Cage's centuries-long organ piece As SLow aS Possible, this portmanteau road movie follows the meanderings of Salpa, a human being with a fish on his chin. The quest for his own identity is carried on ad absurdum.
Overview
OILFIELDS MINES HURRICANES is a road-movie, in which the classical concept of that genre - the quest for and the fixation of the own identity - is lead ad absurdum: Salpa, the traveler, experiences a corrosion of his all-along-multiple identity. This is already founded within the production: 18 authors have taken turns writing the screenplay. The amount and sequence of the scenes correlate with John Cage's organ piece As Slow As Possible. The performance venue of that piece, Halberstadt, is the apparent destination of Salpa's journey. But, arrived, no redemption is waiting...
Key Crew
Director: Fabian Altenried, Dinah Rothenberg, Moritz Altenried, Claudia Barth, Hanne Bohmhammel, Kristof Gerega, Wanda Koller, Mareike Lisker
Writer: Fabian Altenried, Moritz Altenried, Claudia Barth, Hanne Bohmhammel, Samuel Eschmann, Henning Fehr, Lee Fükke, Kristof Gerega, Philipp Guhr, Anne-Kathrin Heier, Daeng Khamlao, Wanda Koller, Mareike Lisker, Sandra Man, Rita McBride, Octave Pero, Philipp Rühr, Sebastian Seidler
Director of Photography: Smina Bluth