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Alien Verein is a filmic landscape, a stage set dominated by an abstract life-form. The growing lithops (a genus of succulent plant native to southern Africa), are chosen for both their stone and face-like appearances (from which their name is derived; Ancient Greek words λίθος (lithos), meaning “stone,” and ὄψ (ops), meaning “face”) as well as their resilience, while the surface the lithops emerge from is lava-like, made from black capa resin, it is synthetic and smothering.

In a (nightmarish) reoccurring dream, Missika witnesses a rapid germination of a community of cartoonish botanical …