A journey at high altitude seen through the eyes of three mysteriously connected hikers. After their coincidental meeting we follow these three on their personal odysseys. The levels of concentration they exhibit in trying to avoid mistakes makes their experience of the overwhelming landscape even more intense.
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Netherlands
Netherlands
We are mere insects
In a sea of harmony
Lingering through fog
ik ben blij dat er ruimte is voor films als deze
A worthy addition to the film-as-meditation canon, a subgenre I have come to appreciate at the very festival where I now got to watch this film.
With only a few modest cinematic flourishes, and with the most moving post-storm nature sequence this side of Bambi, Olthaar and her team wisely get out of the way to let the sublimity of their subject speak for itself, immersing the audience gently but fully into the overwhelming (and, in this viewer's case, sorely missed) spectacle of the mountains. She even manages to find a subtle kind of humor in the absurdity of the contrast between the smallness of humans and the immovability of the Earth itself.
Naturally, I should have seen (and heard!) this on the big screen - but even on a smaller screen, Berg's impact is impossible not to be felt in your very bones.
■ AT IFFR (🐯) @ Schiermonnikoog 🏝, the Netherlands ■
tried to catch the meaning in these mountains. mist 🏔️
Oh fuck that was so sick love it so much oh hell yeah there were some cliffs
Een film om in te verdwijnen, om eigenlijk op het grote doek te zien. Een film die de tijd durft te nemen en die de tijd vertraagt en versnelt tegelijkertijd. Een film waarvan ik elk shot zou willen inlijsten en waardoor ik weer op vakantie wil.
the opposite of tiktok
- Art Film Fest 2023
Frankly my dear, misty mountains
Watching this 30 minutes after ‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ was like doing a line of coke and then immediately trying to detox on fruit and mineral water
That aside, I really loved how this movie transitioned the landscapes from haunting to haunted :)
I have seen three films in my life where there have been significant audience walkouts. The first was Jim Jarmusch’s Only Lovers Left Alive, the second was Australian road move The Rover – and the third was Berg.
What all three films have in common is a resolute lack of concern for an audience’s expectations in terms of pace. Berg, by far the shortest of these three films, feels the longest, clocking in at a glacial 79 minutes. What’s more, it has very little in the way of discernable plot or characters, being made up of a series of largely static black and white images of mountains, presented in a boxy 4:3 aspect ratio.
If all this sounds like the…
We are nothing in the presence of god's creations: the land and the animals.
Firstly, I will say this. Do not and I mean do not expect a straightforward narrative. This is experimental at it’s most definite and will turn off 90 percent of viewer in only 10 minutes. But if your willing to sit through then be prepared for a little known gem that shows nature at it’s most breathtaking moments, when man seems to be no longer of any significance and god’s creation claims it’s land as it’s own.
