Techno at the End of Times in the Sensual and Apocalyptic 'Sirât'

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Arthouse: In "Sirât," a father searches for his daughter who has left with a rave caravan in the Moroccan desert. It's a film that has nothing to do with…

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Sirât does not seek to be understood but crossed. From his first few minutes the Spanish director Oliver Laxe proposes a cinema that favours the sensory experience over the explanation and trusts in the evocative power of image and sound. The Moroccan desert does not function as a stage but as a living body, crossed by electronic pulses and communities that dance as a precarious form of refuge against a world that crumbles. The bet is clear and …