Miklos Gaál

39 min | 2019 | Netherlands/Germany | US Premiere

An essayistic narration about a garden island in Berlin with a peacock population founded in 1793. Pfaueninsel is looked upon through the peacock, its present-day audience and the transition of spring season. The story is a composition of precise observations of the peacock, natural phenomena, and of passages of historical literature from its day. The arresting peacock displaced from its natural habitat reflects age-old ideas about pristine nature, while the storyline gradually reinterprets eighteenth-century philosophical concerns linked to habitual separations of culture and nature, and the sacred and the secular.