Marxt's Wildfire Documentary to Premiere at DOK Leipzig
Lukas Marxt's experimental film >1.5°C: Pyropolitics and the New World debuts Oct. 27, 2026, then travels to the Viennale and IDFA.
Austrian filmmaker Lukas Marxt's experimental documentary >1.5°C: Pyropolitics and the New World will premiere at the German documentary festival DOK Leipzig on October 27, 2026, according to hollywoodreporter.com. After Leipzig, the film screens at Austria's Viennale and then at IDFA in Amsterdam.
Marxt directed and edited the film and handled the camera work together with Carson Davis Brown. It has no talking heads, narration or commentary beyond an opening text quote from philosopher Michael Marder.
The film depicts the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires, including firefighters, a shelter and the fire itself, through extended observational scenes.
Marxt was in California working around the Salton Sea when the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires broke out. The Salton Sea area suffered a major ecological disaster in the 1970s when agricultural runoff caused an algae bloom that killed fish and birds.
The 1.5°C figure in the title refers to the Paris Agreement adopted in 2015 to limit temperature rise to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Marxt's earlier work includes Among the Palms the Bomb, Or: Looking for Reflections in the Toxic Field of Plenty.
Quick answers
When does >1.5°C: Pyropolitics and the New World premiere?
It premieres at DOK Leipzig on October 27, 2026, and later screens at the Viennale and IDFA.
What is the film about?
It depicts the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires using extended observational scenes, with no narration beyond an opening quote from philosopher Michael Marder.
Who directed the documentary?
Austrian filmmaker Lukas Marxt directed and edited it, with camera work by Marxt and Carson Davis Brown.