A Desert in the Heart of the World traces the mottled trail left behind over nearly a millennium by the Carthusian monks around the Grande Chartreuse monastery in the French Alps. The brief narrative on screen transports the viewer to the heart of a wild and austere natural world where remnants of a past time, still strangely present, are revealed in the turning of the seasons.
Retaining these memories of a rich history, the land seems suspended like a dream space, a place in which the march of time dissolves, where the existence, the experience of man merges with the forces of nature in the eternal passage of time.
Available on DVD here (French/English version, 30 min).