On the high seas. Part 1: The burgeoning decision to go on a journey willy-nilly

The found film fragments dance, colored and maltreated, to ominously placed music that tilts from atonal to electronic and further into the flavors of Krautrock, noise, and free jazz. Our view of the ephemeral images, largely taken from old documentaries, amateur films and advertising, is reduced and blocked by superimposed grids and nets. The atmosphere that emerges fluctuates between maritime to martial: a gigantic ship sets off, probably more for military purposes than to transport vacationers.  

Under the somewhat unwieldy, gently contradictory title Auf der hohen See, Teil 1: Vom aufkeimenden Entschluss, wohl oder übel eine Reise antreten...