Two men stroll through the woods, telling stories, a mobile phone in hand, to capture an image of nature. On their cinematic journey from the Vienna Natural History Museum, via a Bolivian salt flat, to the virtual world of ‘Red Dead Redemption’, Philipp Hartmann and film critic Roger Koza meet friends, filmmakers and experts from various countries. They philosophise about the attempt to depict nature and connect through their love of cinema. Hartmann playfully weaves together art history and critiques of colonialism, the imagined and the factual. In its open, collaborative form, the film allows itself to be guided by its protagonists, and so the mosaic-like narrative, brimming with ideas, becomes, almost incidentally, a manifestation of friendship and cinephilia. (Eva Kirsch, dokfilmwoche hamburg)

Followed by a talk with filmmaker Philipp Hartmann and Isadora Romero, awardee of the ‘After Nature . Ulrike Crespo Photography Prize 25’ (in English)

Germany/Argentina 2024 | 79 min. | HD, 16mm, 8mm; color; stereo

with: Roger Koza, Meiko Heuser, Paula Gaitán, Radu Jude, Narcisa Hirsch, Johannes Kirschbaum, Kirsten Voigt, Isabel Plante, Joy Koza Carreira, Julia Landsiedl, Elmar Podlasly, Felix Klee; Dramaturgical advise: Yulia Lokshina, Roger Koza; Additional photography: Helena Wittmann; Sound mix: Pablo Paolo Kilian; color correction: Tim Liebe; Music: Zoyt, Philipp Hartmann, Pablo Paolo Kilian; Poster: Steffen Goldkamp

Spanish, German, English, Portuguese – with English subtitles