Holding Positions

Martha is online and as long as she is connected to the main unit her life continues – monotonous, convenient, perfect. Nevertheless the well maintained system gets disrupted and Martha herself becomes the problem. The calculated consequence: offline.

The pasty grey, which surrounds Pavel's caravan resembles the life inside of it: the 71-old Russian spends the evening of his life in a dismal and monotonous way between marram grasses and sleepy seaports. But at one point Pavel makes a decision: He picks up the telephone receiver, calls his old friend Jack and starts walking – just straight ahead to California.

Inspired by the concept of smooth and striated space by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari the film plays with different spaces and reflects on the power of mental and physical barriers.