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From My Desert unfolds inside a Geneva freeport — a tax-free storage facility where artworks are traded as financial assets rather than displayed as cultural objects. The animated narrative follows a young investor who acquires a historic painting and stores it anonymously in a secured warehouse, awaiting its future resale.
What begins as a routine transaction gradually destabilizes. The painting — a portrait of Martin Luther by Lucas Cranach the Elder — appears to come alive, entering into an intimate and increasingly ambiguous relationship with its new owner. Desire, ownership, and speculation begin to intertwine.
Blending digital animation with painterly techniques, the film examines the transformation of art into pure commodity and reflects on the ideological entanglement of Protestant ethics and capitalist accumulation. Within the sealed architecture of the freeport, history becomes asset, devotion becomes possession, and value is measured in anticipation.
