VALLEY PRIDE
Lukas Marxt / Austria, Germany / 2023 / 15 min / Colour
In California, in the Imperial Valley and Coachella regions, industrial agriculture flourishes thanks to irrigation fed by the Colorado River. Here, tractors advance in slow motion as workers, with anonymous faces, mechanically harvest lettuce: under the sword of Damocles of uncertain residency status, they are just cogs in a giant agricultural machine that buries ecological and ethical standards. Lukas Marxt's camera takes us into the heart of this reality, among the plastic greenhouses and the smoke-spewing chimneys, while the enchanting landscape is made inhospitable by exploitation. What we are left with are the untold stories of the workers and the inevitable question: what is it that we eat? In the conflict between man and nature, profit prevails over everything here.
Lukas Marxt
An Austrian director, born in 1983, Marxt became interested in the relationship between man and nature during his studies of geography and environmental sciences at the University of Graz. He further explored these topics through Audiovisual Studies at the Kunstuniversität Linz. He obtained a master's degree from the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne and a diploma from the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig. He has directed, among others, Cape Ground (2016) and Fishing is not Done on Tuesdays (2017), presented in competition at the Berlinale.
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Screenplay Lukas MarxtCinematography Lukas MarxtEditing Lukas MarxtMusic Jung an TagenProduction company s u n³b°u°r°s t FILM
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