Marine Target
Innovative Cinema Short, AT/DE 2022, Farbe, 10 min., eOF
Diagonale 2023
Director: Lukas Marxt
Script: Konzept & Realisation: Lukas Marxt
Sounddesign: Marcus Zilz
Additional Credits: Sprecherin: Julia Scher
Schnittberatung: Vanja Smiljanić
Producers: Lukas Marxt
We fall as a bomb from great heights over the Salton Sea onto a platform in the middle of the lake, the former target for nuclear weapons tests filmed remotely by the U.S. for data collection. Once landed, Lukas Marxt’s camera surveys the island in a crystal-like arrangement of cadres that frame and create space, while a chorus of ghosts screams out of things and into the images.