Alejandra Van der Land & Matias Kritz
Country
Argentina
Aditional info
With “the sky behind our eyelids”, we have been thinking about the problem of visibility, of the classification of the world based on what is seen, and of the possibilities of interior and decolonial transformation, offered by the pandemic crisis and the ecological urgency. In the first scene of the film, a CGI volcano cries for humanity. "Millions of years ago we were intergalactic dust", narrates an aged and futuristic voice, "a snake of smoke floating in a spiral over the living placenta of the universe"
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It is an artistic collective formed by Alejandra Van der Land (1974) and Matias Kritz (1973), based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In their most recent works, they investigate the relationships between nature, culture and technique, exploring ideas about the future, ancestral memory, ecology and automation. Interested in the two specters that haunt the Earth in the XXI century: "The spectrum of ecological catastrophe andautomation", words with which Peter Frase begins his book Four Futures.
