Psychic Tequila Tarot

Peter and Chris, two young American friends in their late 20s, go from South Dakota to California on a scooter, and as they travel across the American landscape they see their country through different eyes, ranging from Peter's cynically nihilistic point of view, to Chris' high expectations and romantic notions of the United States.

“With Lantouy the young German video artist Isabell Spengler pursues a work revolving around the magic perception of the real. The film creates a purely sensuous experience, a place in which the veiled and the unveiled rejoin. The stagnant waters of the Gouffre de Lantouy in the Departement Lot in Southern France form under the gaze of Isabell Spengler a theater of moving matter, in kind of a delicate iridescent explosion.” - François Bonenfant, La Cinémathèque Française, Paris, 2007

On vacation in Texas, three women find themselves mysteriously transformed. After crossing the Rio Grande, they make contact with the local cowboys.

Staying at their vacation home in the South of France, parents and filmmaking daughter have different ideas about what it is to make a film. The exuberant parental motivation is immediately diverted into interviews and resulting cinematic experimental arrangements that play with the realization of the film ideas. The result is an experiment between image description and moving image, which paints the portrait of a family that has a passionate relationship to the image of the nature that surrounds it.