(delocalized forest edge)2015HD video9‘31
This film is about the loss of orientation and bearings. It stages a variable geographythrough a floating forest. The presence of the character, immersed in this unstablelandscape, in these liquid ground, works like a barometer and counterbalances thecontemplative aspects of watching a floating forest. She makes us aware of theviolence of the situation. These poetical pictures of an artificially modified natureare contrasted by the reference of factual pictures which frame the film, beginningwith the animated cartography of the declinations of the earth’s magnetic fieldbound to the movement of the magnetic north. The video ends with the foundfootage of a real floating island passing the dam of Narva in Estonia.
