The Natural History of Destruction

Germany, Lithuania, The Netherlands2022documentary110'

European cities as seen from the boards of aircraft during carpet-bombing made a stunningly beautiful picture which was horrifying in a primeval manner. These images of hell, like never before, were planned by the engineers of war with scientific precision. To create the choreography of destruction, they employed the instruments of mathematics and physics. The director uses archive footage, unpublished so far, to express with series of hypnotic images what was written in prose by W.G. Sebald - the horror of those whose fate was never part of any equation.