Gary Dretzka
Leonard Klady
David Poland
Ray Pride

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ANOTHER DOC I saw on tape on Thursday was Jean Michel Roux's Investigation Into The Invisible World. And while the film will always be more an anomaly than anything else - selling a film in Icelandic is a brutal thing - it was entertaining as hell, in a creepy, funny, you've-almost-got-me-believing-this-crap kind of way.

The invisible world of the title is the world of elves, gnomes, ghosts and monsters amongst other "unseen people" who inhabit Iceland… or as the film would have you believe, inhabit the whole world, but are more easily seen by the Icelandic people.

The film makes an interesting companion piece to Dirty Work, as two films about true believers who live slightly beyond the range of our comprehension. It's easy to separate the inevitable friends and foes of these films. If you can't find some interest or bemusement at the sight of a man trying to capture a bull's semen in a bag that looks much like a cake decorating frosting bag, you will not like Dirty Work. And if David Lynch doesn't make you smile - not stimulate your intellect, but make you smile - Investigation of The Invisible World will not be very good for you. But they were both quite fun for me.

by David Poland

Investigation into the Invisible World
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Director: Jean Michel Roux

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Documentary
Country: France
Year: 2002
Time: 90 minutes
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Screenwriter - Jean Michel Roux
Executive Producer - Frederique Dumas
Producer - Mathieu Bompoint
Cinematographer - Jean-Louis Viallard
Editor - Joseph Licide
Sound - Pierre Choukroun, Eric Mauer, Bruno Tarriere, Jerome Thiot