PAR DZIMTENITI

Actually a matter of two films in one: they alternate and communicate, exchange quizzical glances on meeting before proceeding on their separate ways. The one film luxuriates in artful compositions of the fauna in this fishpond habitat – a series of miniatures and bizarre moments, water fowl of all hues and colours, sometimes merely suggested by a camera apparently freed of its shackles and determined to show what it can do. A cat (the secret link) leads the way to a cabin in the other film, the one about three men by a fishpond who lead real men's lives in this lonely landscape: hunting, fishing, eating, watching TV, tinkering, drinking, talking shop, occasionally inviting women round and later – free again – downing a few beers round the campfire. Frankly speaking, things are not that different in the animal world – or that's what the film suggests, with tongue firmly in cheek. And it's been a long time since we saw such beautiful animal photography.

(Catalogue Leipzig, 2008)