Places That Do Not Exist (Goggle Earth 1.0) (2009): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2009, Places That Do Not Exist (Goggle Earth 1.0) is a notable film directed by Isaki Lacuesta, running about 90 minutes.

What it’s about. The project Places that do not Exist (Goggle Earth 1.0) consists of a series of portraits and films of places which do not appear on Google Earth, which we travelled to in order to document their true appearance through vid- eos and photographs, which in the installation were then contrasted with the false vision which we see on Google Earth. These were military grounds and training camps, govern- ment buildings, natural parks where speculators have constructed illegal apartment blocks, nudist beaches... in Spain, Colombia, Ecuador, Russia and Australia. The catalogue of land- scapes which, for various reasons, Google Earth glosses over is endless and often very surprising. The project therefore confronts this unrealistic and yet supposedly objective view of Google Earth from a realistic (yet nevertheless subjective) point of view of the ground-level images we have of these places which, in spite of eve- rything, do exist.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Places That Do Not Exist (Goggle Earth 1.0) page.