A young woman in Tokyo links the mysterious death of a journalist to the Hashimoto experiment that attempted to teach a cactus the alphabet. Fiction and documentary alternate freely, using various film formats.
The county of Yoknapatawpha cannot be found with the aid of maps; it is the invention of the American author William Faulkner, and the setting of his classic novels. Tracing its tracks into the present, Elise Florenty & Marcel Türkowsky conjure a vanished landscape, saturated in its sultry atmosphere and eidetic visions.
BACK TO 2069 looks at the eroded landscape of the Greek militarized Aegean island Lemnos, a political space where a myth meets contemporary concerns upon the relation of virtual and real image production. There a solitary man shape-shifts from argonaut to avatar through various hallucinations, experiencing different states of embodiment and disembodiment. Although he exiled himself from Athens to escape the crisis, past and future scenarios of conflict are gradually catching up on him. What appears to be a fiction is made out of documentary footage that interweaves the man's venture on the island with recorded Arma 3 video-game sessions from Youtube.
