Filmed inside the DELPHI particle detector at CERN in Geneva, DELPHI Rationale is Lachenmann's most ambitious film production to date. In this supremely colorful work of visual and sound art, the artist stages the detector both as a "backdrop" for an Indian sarod player and as a painting, whose intensive color scheme makes it the film's actual protagonist. Drawing on the color spectrum of three Technicolor masterpieces from 1936 and 1939 - The Garden of Allah, Gone with the Wind, and The Wizard of Oz -, Lachenmann extracts from them eight central colors. Together with Titian red, they are the material from which Lachenmann creates a dramatic, moving picture, thus reflecting on the development of painting from its high point - the Italian Renaissance - to the early days of color motion picture film.—Film Base Berlin