Gambling, gods and LSD

A three-hour trip examines invisible threads of desire for the absolute across the time and different cultures. Places of the world are connected with the smell of ecstasy, sex, money, and ever looked for divinity. Mettler offers an ambitious, associative space of the modern ecstatic culture, its different shapes and roots it feeds on. The exhausting journey mingles different filming styles within the background of rich and decorative variety of sounds, captures the dizziness of evangelist prayer in a church at the Toronto airport, the fatalism of a religious gathering in South Asia as well as unbinding fleshly pleasures in the middle of Nevada dessert. Meditative suppleness of the film essay immediately transforms into throbbing stains of videoart, images are layered inside seconds, forming a monstrous whole, in order to declare fundamental changes of the human idealism, transcendentalism, and aesthetical needs. The partner of the evening is the Documentary film festival Jihlava.