Alpi is the result of seven years of research on contemporary perceptions of
the landscape of the Alps, juxtaposing places and situations across all eight
bordering nations and spanning the territories of four languages. In the film,
the Alps are encountered like an island that is connected to various global
transformations. We undertook many journeys in the alpine region, which, ironically,
led us as far as Dubai. The film shows the Alps as a key location, owing to its
delicacy and environmental importance, where one can observe and study the complexity
of social, economic, and political relationships. In the Europe of today, the Alps
are a hotbed for modernity and its illusions.
- Armin Linke, 2010
Going to the Alps? Thinking of trekking outdoors? Dreaming of skiing in Switzerland?
Watch Armin Linke′s film first. Beware. You will always be inside, deep inside
laboratories, factories, ski resorts, or Swiss bunkers hidden in the mountains.
Armin Linke has succeeded in doing with film what he has been doing for years
with photography: situate the envelopes inside which our existence unfolds. This
is the most uncritical film ever made about the utter artificiality of the modern world.
But "uncritical" has to be taken just as positively as "artificial."
- Bruno Latour, 2011
