The short film »Activate the Good Spirits, Haunt the Toxic Ghosts« approaches the nature of glaciers and the landscape they shape as a speculative science fiction narrative.

It is populated by a collective of mythological figures from alpine legends and post-humanistic beings. We encounter figures transformed into the future, such as the queerly read, mythical »Salige«, the »Glacier Bear« and the »Tree Man«, who hark back to the Tyrolean carnival and pagan customs. Together with the »Cloud« and the »Radioactive Fish«, both contaminated by anthropocentric influences, they form a community of nomadic subjects. The visibly shrunken glacier, whose traces have formed the landscape, comes into the picture by means of drone shots that show a sublime, supposedly untouched, archaic nature.

The collective seems well adapted to the climatic conditions in this landscape, but the reason for its presence is left to our imagination. Actions of the collective can equally be read as scientific methods, healing practices, gestures of care, animistic rituals, means of communication or activism. Only once does the group become explicit in its demand, when it uses a self-made banner to address (glacial) water as a contested resource. Obviously, the message is addressed less to a counterpart in the film than to us viewers directly.

Together with her protagonists, the artist traces a supposedly different, mythological and ancient knowledge about the glaciers and speculates on how this knowledge can be activated for future forms of coexistence and understanding between human and non-human actors.

Text: Georgia Holz

PERFORMERS
Jodok Tinzl
Jona Scharfetter
Levi Scharfetter
Vito Scharfetter
Vitus Tinzl

CAMERA
Marianne Borowiecz

CREW
Stephanie Schumacher-Scharfetter
Saskia Tinzl-Malang
Clemens Tinzl

COLOUR GRADING
Caroline Bobek

COSTUME CONCEPTS
Johanna Tinzl

COSTUME DESIGN
Julia Cepp

DRONE OPERATOR
Marianne Borowiecz

PREPARATION CREW
Karolina Tinzl
Hugo Tinzl

SOUND DESIGN
Florian Pfaffenberger

SOUND RECORDING
Richard Heuberger

THANKS TO
Markus Bitter
Lydia and Serafin Gstrein
Maruša Sagadin
Eva Seiler
Christine Tinzl




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