The Enclave
2013•40m•Released
DocumentaryWar
Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish contemporary artist Richard Mosse. Partly inspired by Joseph Conrad’s modernist literary masterpiece Heart of Darkness, the visceral and moving work was filmed in the Democratic Republic of Congo using 16mm colour infra-red film, which captures otherwise invisible parts of the spectrum. The resulting imagery in Mosse’s work is hallucinatory and dream-like with the usual greens of jungle and forest replaced by shimmering violet. The Enclave depicts a complicated, strife-ridden place in a way that reflects its complexity, using a strategy of beauty and transfixion to combat the wider invisibility of a conflict that has claimed so many.
Director
Richard Mosse
Recommended
8.2
For Sama
2019
6.2
Naqoyqatsi
2002
7.9
Virunga
2014
6.9
The Matrix Revisited
2001
8.4
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D)
2026
7.1
Stan Lee
2023
7.9
Roger Waters: The Wall - Live in Berlin
1990
6.5
Star Wars Biomes
2021
7.4
The Soviet Story
2008
7.6
42 Up
1999
6.1
Vampir Cuadecuc
1972
7.4
Wick Is Pain
2025
6.7
Cameraperson
2016
7.5
Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio: Handcarved Cinema
2022
7.1
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
2022
7.2
Val
2021
7.1
Audrey
2020
6.8
Looking for Richard
1996
6.8
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
2022
7
Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained
2021
Similar Movies
7
Hugo Pratt, trait pour trait
2016
6.3
Mermaids
2017
7
Gateways to the Mind
1958
World War Two: A Timewatch Guide
2016
Guten Tag, RDA !
2012
Blekkmetal
2016
Baglar
2016
5
1982 Malvinas, La guerra desde el aire
2009
Douglas Gordon sings the best of Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground (For Bas Jan Ader)
1993
7.4
Wyklęty
2017
6.3
Two Headed Cow
2006
8
Green Day: The Early Years
2017
10
Super Vario Birds
2019
10
Super Sauber
2018
1
Shameless Propaganda
2013
I Was Only 14
2016
A Imagem da Música - Os Anos de Influência da MTV Brasil
2017
8
Oscar Peterson: Music in the Key of Oscar
1995
6.7
His Name Was Jason: 30 Years of Friday the 13th
2010
Rainier: The Mountain
1999