DIN 18035

A soccer pitch emerges based on a process standardized down to the last detail. Layers of sand and soil are piled up and leveled, pieces of turf are rolled out and cut to size. Nothing is left to chance. Only when nature has been cast into shape can the game begin. (Diagonale catalog 2024)

The first shot is soil. It could be a furrowed field, but the ground is actually too flat and too stony for that, and disorientation sets in. Over the course of the film this is dispelled, as the images slowly reveal the subject and disclose their secret. The wind...