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A Trivial Pursuit card, as it´s called in the film, locates the so-called cargo cult on the oceanic Vanuatu Island. The cult involves indigenous population groups imitating U.S. soldiers with equipment made of simple basic materials and gestures. These radio replicas made of wood and symbolic airstrips are meant to lure airplanes full of cargo from the sky, bringing happiness and wealth. Through these ritual practices, filmmaker Christoph Schwarz and media artist Peter Moosgaard approach art-theoretical discourses on copy, counterfeit, and originality—especially since the latter is experiencing a creative crisis and imagines the desired breakthrough will come from tracking down the "super cargo": art works are imitated and technological commodities copied using tree branches as functional mock ups.
