
Uncanny Valley
Paul Wenninger
Austria, France , 2015, dcp, 13'30''
In Uncanny Valley, we are at once bombarded by the psychological and physical intensity of a battle fought between desperate soldiers during the First World War. Each frame of this animated live action piece reveals its own painful yet detailed moment, resistant to the synthetic image of history. The culminating effect reveals the numbing futility of war, the agony of conflict and survival, the discovery of brotherhood, and the madness of it all.