Alaska

Alaska by Dore O. is a beautiful film, which makes it at first glance a bit suspect. But the beauty has a catch to it – it exists only on the surface, beneath it hide horror and fear. For Dore O., beauty is a part of reality. For her there exists a beauty in fear in the same way that for Genet there exists a beauty in murder. Alaska is a filmed dream, but devoid of the simplistic metaphors taken from psychoanalysis, metaphors which rationalise dreams and thus mistakenly facilitate their interpretation. Alaska is a film which cannot be interpreted, it can be experienced —Klaus Baderkerl, FILMKRITIK, 1969