Sierra Zulu, A Feature Length Political Sci-fi Dark Comedy by Monochrom
Sierra Zulu, the upcoming feature length dark political sci-fi comedy directed by Johannes Grenzfurthner of the art tech theory group monochrom, is described as “the bastard offspring of Catch-22 and Buckaroo Banzai, reborn with the soul of Harun Farocki.” He has recently started a fundraising campaign on Kickstarter to help finish the film which includes a worldwide tour. You may remember Earthmoving, the prequel short to Sierra Zulu.
The movie “Sierra Zulu” aims to use stylistic elements of the dark comedy or the farce to deal with the fundamental questions of national supremacy, international conflict solving strategies, national and international legislation, the power of the media and the diplomatic incapacity of international organizations. The movie wants to explore the perspectives of people who live more or less on the fringes of what we would call “history” or “the world”. This fringe area – surrounded by Austrian sovereign territory – is where we find the microstate Soviet Unterzoegersdorf, the almost forgotten ‘last autonomous republic of the Soviet Union’ which has fallen victim to its geo-political, historical, cultural, and economical insignificance. This village is the last state to represent the ideas which have been eradicated from the face of the earth with Soviet-Communism.