Director’s Statement

Airports have become the paradigm of a modern mobile life. Terminals are the most surveilled public areas nowadays. And in spite of the airports internationality, there is only little contact between people from different cultures. Human interactions are normalized and anonymized.

The right to freedom of movement is always in question there. Airports are critical points of entry where the limits of laws, security, tolerance are constantly tested.

The film Airport juxtaposes realistic scenes based on personal experiences with abstract situations. In the course of the film, the atmosphere intensifies and becomes increasingly distressing. The paranoid quest to get away becomes more urgent. Escape routes disappear, are deflected and cut down altogether. Space becomes sparse, things get confusing.

The films changing angles and points of view should leave us in a limbo: are we among the hapless travelers trying to get through check-in, or on a journey to escape?