2022 | Germany, Portugal | Animation,Documentary,Fiction,Experimental,Short

Unspecial Effects

  • no spoken language 6 mins
  • Director | Laura Leppert
  • Writer | Laura Leppert
  • Producer | Laura Leppert

STATUS: Completed

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The Glass Cathedral presides over a perfectly ordered landscape. Everything is arranged, labeled, obsessively categorized - collaged together over thousands of miles.

Using the artificial paradises of two botanical gardens in Germany and Portugal, Unspecial Effects reflects on the narrative of catastrophe, its cinematic effects, and selective amnesia.

botany history of exhibitions botanical garden taxonomy science history colonialism extractivism amnesia collage apocalypse special effects mainstream cinema
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