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Crocodiles and the Drone
This is a 2016 German experimental short adaptation. For the original scene, see Chapter Five (the interior).
Crocodiles and the Drone is an 18-minute experimental adaptation of the watering hole sequence in Chapter Five. Directed by Kerstin ██ for German television , it isolates the moment where Leif and Katita discover a decommissioned surveillance drone filled with instant photographs—including one of Leif himself, though he cannot remember the image.
The film renders identity-dissolution as recursive image: water and photograph become optically indistinguishable; crocodiles are filmed in desynchronised fast motion, their movements divorced from the audio track. The drone's cloud-shaped hull grows increasingly abstract, dissolving into white noise by the final sequence.
Premiered at ██████████ Film Festival, 2017 ; exhibition history beyond Northern European venues remains undocumented. [citation needed] The work is notable for permitting the glitch to remain structurally unresolved—the photograph's origin is never explained, and the film ends without closure.