A Radical Compromise

    • Daniel Červenka
    • Czech Republic
    • 2021
    • 12 min
    • Immersive
    • Dutch Premiere
    • DocLab: Nervous Systems, IDFA Doclab Spotlight

    Minerals have brought us many benefits. Coal, gas, oil and minerals made the industrial revolution possible, freed a large proportion of humanity from grinding poverty and brought about an unprecedented boom in the world economy. The dark side of this success story is the exhaustion of our planet’s resources, something we have only become aware of relatively recently.

    The Czech collective that presents the Radical Compromise dome projection aims to impress upon the viewer the need to act quickly by immersing us in the reality of brown coal surface mining. Drone shots, ghostly photograms, scans from an electron microscope and 3D photo manipulations reveal the traces that human activity leaves on the skin of our planet.

    Switching between cell level, close-ups and a zoomed-out view of a dead landscape of craters with dirty brown pools of mud, this 360-degree film shows the seriousness and scale of the destruction. The layered soundtrack, incorporating recordings from the mine, creates an ominous undertone.

    Credits

    • 12 min
    • Spoken languages: English
    • Subtitles in: No dialogue
    Created by
    Planetum
    Director
    Daniel Červenka
    Production
    Daniel Cervenka
    Executive producer
    Martin Fuchs
    Co-production
    Marek Silpoch

    IDFA history

    2022
    Dutch Premiere
    DocLab: Nervous Systems
    IDFA Doclab Spotlight

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