Diwan, a lyrical anthology, is an outdoor movie with people. With people who are neither more nor less than a part of the precious and exquisitely photographed nature surrounding them. What Nekes achieves with landscape as a cunning artist in a medium which proceeds in time -- how he vanquishes time that changes things by using it to change the landscape, how he disturbs or destroys the laws of chronology through the rewind mechanism of the camera -- is a captivating and highly aesthetic experimental undertaking (...).