La Nature

The film by the Armenian genius Artavazd Peleshian, made after 27 years of creative silence, is a complex epic treating the spectacular and destructive force of nature. The film is composed of black-and-white images depicting major vicious natural phenomena: floods, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions or tornadoes. At times very terrifying pictures are accompanied by classic symphonic or opera soundtracks. The film in its entirety resembles a monumental art mosaic characteristic of Peleshian’s famed distant editing method. Using the latter film technique, this poetic work confronts its viewers with the inferiority of humankind, dismantling our illusions about us being able to command nature. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)