Riafn

NEW DOCS
This uncategorizable short invites you to the vast, steep-pitched hinterlands of the European Alps to witness a series of isolated cottagers emerging from their homes to yell at empty hillsides. City dwellers may puzzle at the practices of a people seemingly lost to time: Are they communicating? Merely announcing their presence? The mystery is solved when ruminant armies descend in answer to their keepers’ calls. Moseying goats, sheep, and cows explode the silence with a cacophony of cowbells, quilting the landscape with deafening atonal jam sessions. These, it must be mentioned, are delivered with sly audio enhancement: What you see and hear can’t be taken on faith in this Alpine-Gothic, playfully pseudo-documentary contrivance. It’s high camp, both literally and figuratively. MM
Director
Hannes Lang
Producers
Hannes Lang, Mareike Wegener
Editor
Hannes Lang
Cinematographer
Jakob Stark
Release Year
2019
Festival Year
2020
Country
Germany
Run Time
29 minutes
Subtitled
No