As a politicized Battle Royal, director Aleksander Melnik’s film Novaya Zemlya (aka Terra Nova) follows the murderous/survivalist exploits of a banished Russian/Chechen prison population.

The opening sequence features paper angels, a nugatory steeple church teetering along a hellfire passage, a repositioning aircraft (!), freakish Ferris wheels, mountainous cardboard imprisonments turned proscenium, a hatchet man and characters in varied stress positions.

On its own the Boschian frame is compelling art. Its consuming narrative content will perhaps one day see it in an interactive museum. There is a monumentalization and a simplification of story in the depiction of Paradise and the mouth of Hell from which we’ve traveled.

Truss, truss, everywhere truss.