DYSTOPIA
2021
Dystopia was heavily inspired by my tip to Lapland in January. The landscape was so extreme it felt other worldly. If I had not been exposed to things like National Geographic Magazine, I wouldn’t have believe it to be a real place. The trees look liked alien mountains dripping with some biohazardous dust. Walking through that landscape made me think about a post human world. A dystopian landscape – everything on a inhuman scale. Hours of endless darkness, the light of the sun coming as a blessing for only a couple of hours before retuning behind the hostile miles and miles of augmented tress.
The film was compiled from footage I took whilst in Lapland intersected with rapid ’glitches’ of AI generated ideas of ice snow and cold.
The balls of concreate where inspired by Helsinki and some of the Brutalist concreate buildings that I walked though. Brutalist architecture has always resonated with me as feeling dystopian. Concrete on such a huge scale seemingly removes the human aspect.They are built for the masses; not for the individual.
The ball-like form abstractly references a meteorite or mini planet. The movement creating the impression that the sphere(s) were travelling. Tied in to the soundtrack ‘Metallic Heart Beat’, created by Joanna Rodregres, the feel of this piece was intentionally, almost, surreal.