In the Beginning Was the Eye

Imagine a portrait of Austria created by Jan Svankmajer and David Lynch: This will give you an idea of Bady Minck’s fantastic film work, In the Beginning was the Eye. When a writer investigates Austria through the image presented by postcards, the landscapes around Erzberg and Salzburg province become something between a dream and a nightmare. And the words on the back of the cards seep into the scene as whispers. These are terrible and painful texts, written by unknown hands over the course of time. Tension develops between picture and text, culture and landscape. (Hans Schifferle, Süddeutsche Zeitung).