Matter Out of Place

At first glance, from afar and from a distance, we see a charming view of the sea bay, — only in close-ups do we see that the coastline is covered in washed-up plastic bottles. In slow, contrasting still images, the conceptual documentary traces the Sisyphean effort to get waste to its designated place. The inadequacy inherent in the film's title is most evident in the giant Asian garbage dump, a seemingly bottomless pit designed to bury whatever people have left behind. We create waste even in the most unlikely places, like mountain peaks or the surface of the sea, and our efforts to bury it somewhere, to hide it, to make it invisible, seem absurd.“The places we see are fascinating. But we can't stop to look at just the surface. We have to go further. Everything we produce or use ends up to be trash at some point. Once we throw it away, it's not gone. The process starts just then.”---Source: https://www.cineuropa.org/en/interview/428745/