Fata Morgana (1970) is nominally a film about mirages in the Sahara Desert, and its narration, read by the German film historian Lotte Eisner, offers long recitations from a Mayan creation myth: "Therefore the
creatress and the creator essayed once more to build living beings, to make moving creatures." Early in the film, a long tracking shot offers some windblown Orange dunes, across which sail tiny whirlwinds of sand--a bizarre, almost Martian vision.