- 'One day I just finally went outside.' And this is where an imaginative journey of discovery begins, told on the soundtrack by a young boy, who leaves the at once idyllic and strangely menacing setting of his suburban home in favour of the alligators of Florida's dense swamps, and robots that decorate the earth's interior with cave paintings. We never see him, though, and the calm and deserted stream of images merely suggest glimpses of the fact that reality is constantly up for negotiation. The dream of founding a new world from nothing fills the void between what we see and what we hear. But on the edge of the image, we sense both a biblical apocalypse and a family breaking apart, where the excursion to the world outside is also an escape from a terrifying father who wants to isolate his children in his empty house. In any case, 'City World' is probably the closest you will get to 'hearing visions'. A dazzling and disturbing hybrid work, which shares its fascinating natural mysticism with a number of contemporary filmmaking's most innovative names - just in an even more radical synthesis of images and sound. Brent Chesanek gives us an exemplary demonstration of the fact that a film can relate to both the real and the possible. Neither documentary nor fiction, but simply a film.

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