Austausch

The Dingo Fence stretches across the continent of Australia for 5000 kilometres. It might prevent northern dingos from snatching the occasional sheep from the south, but its length is littered with the carcasses of nomadic native animals seeking food and water. It is an ecological disaster, a lethal monolith, which symbolizes man’s arrogant misunderstanding of mother earth, his separation from nature. The Berlin Wall separates man from man. It makes West Berlin an artificial and vulnerable island in a political power game. The visual impact of the wall perversely depicts its dehumanizing consequences. (Tampere Film Festival)