It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not

Humans are social beings. But what are they when isolated and lonely? In It Seems To Be Loneliness But It Is Not Lukas Marxt puts himself in this situation by going to a place where human encounters and exchange can hardly be expected. The artist moves through an inhospitable location. The subjective camera makes his gaze our own as he glides over a variety of structures in the rocky ground of the volcanic Canary Island of Lanzarote.

The film´s first shot takes us over rugged terrain, and we can sense the nearby abyss. The crunching of the gravel and the...