Films by Thomas Reisser

Germany 2012, 60 min
by Ana Rocha Fernandes, Torsten Truscheit

São Vicente in the West African Cape Verde Islands has the honour of being home to what is undoubtedly the most bizarre golf course in the world. For on the entire eighteen-hole course which lies at the gates of the pretty harbour city of Mindelo, not a single blade of grass is to be found. Here every shot is accompanied by a dust cloud of sand. And when the ball flies toward 'the green' it doesn't land on fertilized, watered saturated grass, but rather on a laboriously produced layer of sand mi