White Death

Brooding music intensifies the tone of a desolate black-and-white panorama immersed in chiaroscuro. This experimental documentary thematizes the tragedy that befell a Chilean army company in 2005 during a severe storm in the Andes. A recording of a radio conversation of men trapped in the snow can be heard in the background. The film does not seek to faithfully reconstruct the events as they happened. The combination of various film formats and animation techniques communicates a feeling of unfathomable loneliness and blistering cold that bores down to the bone – the desperation of a person standing on the threshold of white death. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)