Florian Rudolph

This is a short film about the emotions of insects and a documentary experiment about human emotions directed toward them. The thesis: our view of insects is "tinted" by the surface they move on—not because they're small, but because we don't take the time to look at them.

A Chinese researcher and her documentary crew enter a small Swiss village to investigate the local Carnival tradition and its possible link to extraterrestrials. As an outsider in this closed community, she encounters things she didn't expect, and the line between reality and daydream starts to blur…