A slow pan along a forest that breaks off at a small terrace in the foreground of the picture. Slender conifers stretch upwards over cut and fallen trunks, dead branches and roots, churned soil and dry grass, and parade past one another, structuring the space to impenetrable depths.

The documentary film from Minot, North Dakota by filmmakers Angelika Brudniak and Cynthia Madansky, is about a life lived directly over a depot of nuclear weapons from the Cold War.

Elke Groen’s Nightstill portrays images of the Dachstein mountains. Rather than being a documentary record however, it appears as a confrontation with the landscape as it is.

"Secret Life" is the introduction to the long-term artistic laboratory project "Life matters". This film is a poetic reflection on the matter of life and its place in the Universe.