"Waste on the shores, waste on the mountains. On ocean floors and deep down in the earth. The term “matter out of place” refers to objects in a place they originally do not belong to. And there are many such objects in the places Nikolaus Geyrhalter visits for this film. In his unique imagery consisting of minutely composed pictures, the director traces immense amounts of waste across our planet. He travels from the mountain tops of Switzerland to the coasts of Greece and Albania, into an Austrian refuse incinerator and then to Nepal and the Maldives, and finally to the deserts of Nevada. 'Matter Out of Place' is about human-made refuse, which is surrounding us all the time everywhere. Collecting, shredding, burning, burying - a Sisyphean task, which ostensibly solves the global problem of rubbish that is stealthily growing."
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