"A loose group of film-makers starts to improvise around the idea of making a movie. They start with a basic idea: the victims of a plane crash are stranded in icy mountains. Forced to accept their situation they soon have to face up to the next step, surviving survival. There are discussions and arguments and the group falls apart into subgroups. Each sub-group starts to follow their own ideas. In some ways their fictive situation is analogous to that of the film- makers, who quickly fall out, unable to find an area of agreement. Each one of them has begun to…
Working across a wide range of media, Lothar Hempel stages elaborate theatrical possibilities, placing the viewer as an autonomous character engaging in his constructed dramas according to their free will…