“Alles hat Grenzen, NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT” is an environmental film musical, in which nature acts and speaks in a diversity of voices. Surfacing evocatively from micro- and macrocosmic layers, she resonates with water as the source of life and resounds as exploited resource. She echoes from the trenches of an inverted world and speaks out as a human being. Reverberating through ecological-cultural depths, images, sounds and associations push to light, giving shape to a vision of humanity being in tune with nature.

The film is accompanied by the publication of Gerald Nestler’s video collection, The Derivative Condition, on Weird Economies platform.


Film score: Volkmar Klien. Voice: Anna Mendelsohn. Edited by: Madlen Sieghartsleitner. Colorist: Daniel Hollerweger. Sound design: Szely. Re-recording mixer: Georg Mittermayr. Ötschergräben, Austria – Vocal ensemble: Christine Gnigler, Joachim Rigler, Lorina Vallaster; Hip Hop artist: Soulcat E-Phife; Beatboxing: Geo Popoff; Performances: Martha Laschkolnig; Stunting: Christian Fiedler; Supporting role: Bela Eckermann. Assistant director: Alex Weber; DoP: Alois Kozar; 2nd camera: Johanna Auer; Camera assistant: Anna Wäger; Drone pilots: Florian Blang, Luka Janitschek; Location sound recordist: Andreas Hamza; Lighting: Tom Barcal, Georg Roppatsch; Production assistance: Fina Esslinger, Laura Eichenseer, Martin Fricker. Naqab desert, Israel – Aziz Al-Turi, activist and speaker of the unrecognized Arab Bedouin village of Al-Araqib; filmed by Deiaa Haj Yahia and Raafat Abo Aiash. Lake Tyrrell, Australia – Neil Fettling, artist; filmed by Simon Jackson. Bejing, China – Qiu Zhijie, artist; filmed by Eckermann and Nestler for their 3-channel video Breathe My Air, 2008-2011.