Riafn

NEW DOCS

This uncategorizable short invites you to the vast, steep-pitched hinterlands of the European Alps to witness a series of isolated cottagers emerging from their homes to yell at empty hillsides. City dwellers may puzzle at the practices of a people seemingly lost to time: Are they communicating? Merely announcing their presence? The mystery is solved when ruminant armies descend in answer to their keepers’ calls. Moseying goats, sheep, and cows explode the silence with a cacophony of cowbells, quilting the landscape with deafening atonal jam sessions. These, it must be mentioned, are delivered with sly audio enhancement: What you see and hear can’t be taken on faith in this Alpine-Gothic, playfully pseudo-documentary contrivance. It’s high camp, both literally and figuratively.  MM

Director

Hannes Lang

Producers

Hannes Lang, Mareike Wegener

Editor

Hannes Lang

Cinematographer

Jakob Stark

Release Year

2019

Festival Year

2020

Country

Germany

Run Time

29 minutes

Subtitled

No