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The program explores the relation between mankind and earth through the materialistic complexities of the ground. From a post-human perspective that understands all matter as living entities stones and mountains challenge our anthropocentric thinking. Engineering, technology, and culture come into question as we observe the penetration of our earth’s crust. Lastly, the underground sphere presents itself as a stage for speculative narratives of the future before returning to ruins.
The film investigates the human search for truth and the conditions of human existence, reflecting how the artist perceive the land of the desert. With the use of contact microphones vibrations from the wandering stones and the deserted landscape are absorbed and transformed into living sounds.… >>>
The film tells the situation of mountain rivers in a particular place in Japan. Inspired by Kafka’s “Excursion into the mountains” the filmmaker draws attention to the current environmental dilemma of including more-than-humans in political modes of commonality, solidarity and equally. Can the more-than-human subaltern speak, or shall one speak for them? He placed words of the story over the images to which they could rather literally refer. In the result a strange environmental interpretation of the writing appeared. The mountain started to talk and not being talked about: the insects, the river, the sand and the plants read Kafka aloud.… >>>
“A while back I was awarded a studio residency in East London. There I lived and worked in The Bow Quarter – a former factory area turned into a luxurious gated community. At first glance living there seemed very worthwhile but the longer I thought about it, the more I started to see this gated way of living as a metaphor for things happening in my private life as well as for social and political tendencies in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world.”… >>>
ED OF SUBTERRA is a portrait of Edward Peden, founder and sole inhabitant of Subterra Castle, a 14,000 square foot former missile silo in Eskridge, Kansas. Ed has lived at Subterra for over two decades, making a space 20 feet underground into a home and sanctuary. Three years ago, Ed had a stroke and he will probably have to sell Subterra and move aboveground. His wife Dianna, with whom he built the space, moved back to Topeka a few years ago, but Ed chose to stay behind in his castle.… >>>
The film conjures up futuristic beings from an eerie smoke-filled landscape and the depths of the earth. It was shot in the vast, dark passages of Wookey Hole Caves in Somerset. The netherworld of chambers, carved out over deep time, once held remnants of lost civilizations, now foretell a future subterranean world, occupied by a species evolved from our environmentally challenged world. Part three of a trilogy of speculative films with text written by Mark von Schlegell.… >>>