ELECTRIC FIELDS

What if the rules of the explicable and the apparent normality of things were abolished in an instant? That’s what happens in this six-part film, in which a corpse is resurrected with a song, a flock of birds turns into a storm, a light bulb refuses to go out... The resignation of the predetermined gives way to the materialisation of dreams – a utopia of parallel realities where difference prevails over control. The young Swiss filmmaker Lisa Gertsch triumphed at the Max Ophüls Film Festival (a springboard for promising German-speaking filmmakers) thanks to her subtle humour, imaginative power and a mise-en-scène akin to prestidigitation. Kaurismäki’s surreal and warm poetry pulses beneath this call for alternative scenarios to explore the enigma of life.