Planetenwerk

Seven years after Ralf’s Colors, Marxt and his artistic collaborator Michel Petri return to one place, Lanzarote, to one person: Ralf Lüddemann (…). Planetenwerk can be thought of as a footnote, a postscript, a supplement and inversion to Ralf's Colors, above all turning the basic constellation of the documentary on its head (thus making it open to critical reflection). Whereas in the first film both look at Ralf, who thinks, lives, and looks differently, and his Lanzarote, here he looks back at them and their hotel world, and in doing so, the boundary between those who create the image and those in the image becomes somehow fluid. Planetenwerk consistently incorporates this inversion into its own form, which makes the boundary – between inside and outside, between hotel and desert, between concrete image and abstract constellation, between a documentary about someone and a film as the result of mutual reflection – visible and somehow forgotten. (Alejandro Bachmann)