Movie Details
Theatrical Release:August 9th, 2016
Original Language:English
Circular Inscription (2016)
DirectorLukas Marxt
6 minAug 9th, 2016
Plot
A mountain range on the horizon separates the cloudy sky from the dusty desert soil of the El Mirage Dry Lake with the sounds of a distant roar In the long shot the gaze shows a detail of the Californian Mojave landscape whose static panorama forms the referential and also material background for Circular InscriptionCircular Inscription positions itself not only formally as homage to the Land Art of the 1960s and 1970s and produces in the process an ambivalent reproduction of tire tracks which on the screen ultimately take on the monumentality of the oversized Earth Works Remaining behind in the landscape is the image of a temporary sign a spiral like Robert Smithsons Spiral Jetty or a circle like the ones Michael Heizer carved in the El Mirage Dry Lake nearly a halfcentury before as Circular Surface Planar Displacement Drawings Kathrin Wojtowicz Translation Lisa Rosenblatt
