Lava-Garten

A tribute to the Austrian philosopher, sculptor and poet Melitta Urbancic, who fled with her family to Iceland in 1938 to escape the National Socialists. Her poems describe loneliness, the longing for exchange and the fate of an exile existence. This film is dedicated to Lava Garden, to one of her poems, in which she describes the impressive landscape of Iceland and the simultaneous long- ing for her place of origin. Lava rock, a beating heart and the immersive music of the Icelandic composer Ragnheiður Erla Björnsdóttir are composed into a visual poem in remembrance of Melitta Urbancic.