LUNAR LANDSCAPE

Near the motorway, where the city ends and the country-side begins, three unlikely strangers share a moment of togetherness in the course of a peculiar night. A woman who spends her time working an unfulfilling job and works out at an all-night gym is confronted with her own loneliness while observing a couple in a hotel. A lone Fox, is forced to look for a safe place to raise her young on the other side of the highway. A couple in a failing relationship try to find intimacy in a hotel room besieged by insects from the nearby forest. They all sleeplessly wander the uncanny landscapes around the highway, before their stories mysteriously converge, meeting, in an eerily empty, traffic intersection, where they find a moment of rest on their journeys.

Director’s statement
As in my previous work, place is the central element in this film, specifically a liminal zone on the city's edge, built for transit rather than habitation, not quite urban or natural, it is unsuitable for the lives of humans and animals alike. The film observes the lonely inhabitants of this microcosm: a woman navigating sterile, consumption-driven spaces; a fox, a lone mother surviving in a man-made world; and a couple physically close yet emotionally distant. Each longs for something—intimacy, safety, connection— and the film contrasts their emotional journeys with the alien and impersonal surroundings they must navigate. By the end of the film none of the characters have reached the end of their journeys, but they find a moment of rest and connection in one another, while the landscape around them finally reveals an eerie beauty.