Béton armé contre dame nature

This film illustrates a recurring theme in the work of Dominik Lange the opposition of nature and city The film explores various different aesthetic options Lange begins by filming a bare tree magnifying it and giving it the plastic seductivity of a watercolour in movement The shots of the tree either gently caressed by the artists camera or exploding in a multitude of trembling and scratched forms alternate with a series of shots of depressing new publichousing tower blocks Lang revitalizes these buildings by clustering them together andor blurring their contours At a certain point a building site appears we see the buildings under construction with construction workers busy at their task Were these shots filmed later or did the filmmaker choose to show them later It doesnt really matter the alchemical phenomenon which mutates vegetation nature into the depressing uniformity of tower blocks is conveyed with sensitivity