Landforms (12 min, 4K, 2024)
LANDFORMS unearths the physical remains of past and future geological strata. The film explores two landscapes, an industrial rock quarry turned recreational fossil hunting park, in which 380-million-year-old fossils were discovered beneath the rocks where once flowed a shallow sea, and a public waterway whose shore is dispersed with brightly colored fragments of consumer waste in the form of microplastics. Both landscapes reveal a process of digging and gathering, of collecting evidence of earth’s pre-historic past, or intervening in humanity’s toxic futures. The forms, of ancient sea creatures and broken plastic, mesh and intertwine into a meditation on deep time and a reflection on extinction.
This project was made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.
SELECTED SCREENINGS
CEPA Gallery, “Reading Landscapes” exhibtion (work-in-progress preview)