A film adapted from a book by German philosopher Günther Anders that the filmmaker has never read, Die molussische Katakombe (The Molussian Catacomb) written between 1932 and 1936.
The film itself takes the form of nine chapter-titled segments, separated into reels and randomized during projection, the soundtrack features a combination of extracts of the book read in German and location-based field recordings, and on the image-track landscape footage of fields, buildings, highways - unsettling self-processed images of undefined landscapes.
The text recounts allegorical stories and musings by political prisoners sitting in the pits of an imaginary fascist state called Molussia. The film’s nine sections ruminate on capitalism, imperialism and resistance.
A haunting and moving meditation on brutality and control, Autrement, la Molussie (Differently, Molussia) has galvanized audiences at festivals throughout the world.

Since 1993 Rey has been making films that hover between photography, documentaries and the avant-garde. He is a founder of the Paris-based artist film lab L’Abominable

In German with English sub-titles.