Maria von Hausswolff at Johan Berggren
Recalling deep sea photography above ground of course estranges. Blackness, depth, unknown. The trick is adept, the cinematic isolation of terrain turns it to vignettes of a dreamed world, us tourists, Planet Earth or Alien. They're both the same film, same worlds. As the title implies. Ours is a lovely world, so deploying it as its spectacular self, a fine filmic conceit. And its made almost literal here, moralistic, the cinematographer is the tourist, is the alien. We should probably all be.
