"In normal films, forward traveling shots usually function only as intercuts and are for me often frustratingly brief. When I began to make Trances, I decided to turn things around for once and make a travel-journey-escape film only in that manner, only looking forward, a kind of totally subjective camera. Someone dreams about leaving...and goes. The important thing is the hypnotic quality of the point of flight lying before us on the horizon, that point which, despite all our speed, always remains removed from us at the same distance. That point can never be reached; the purpose, the object must be the traveling, the motion, wanting to let oneself fall into the point of flight, the vanishing point. "If my previous Story of Night was staring around in empty rooms, ruins, an archaeological film, then Trances now is a tectonic, a geological film: a traveling across a continent, a transversing, a measuring across a landmass from coast to coast and an ultimate losing of the self in a prehistoric, arid plain." Clemens Klopfenstein (quotation translated from German by Ginny Lackner)