Essays # 1
| Thursday|Salt Beyoğlu|13:30|
Six Knots
Ali Vanderkruyk
29' | 2024 | FX6, 16mm
Canada
To reduce ambient noise when approaching a whale, a vessel should not exceed six knots. A long-standing symbol of the distance between human and animal and the mystery of the natural world, the whale is a site of disconnection, fascination and exploitation. Six Knots follows specialists in cetacean death and conservation on the west coast of Canada. The film tracks the grey space between language, sound and image, and the entanglement of colonization, industrialization, and science.
Metabolism
Eugenia Lim
29' | 2024 | Digital 2K video
Australia
A portrait of a living, working ecology and the multispecies it sustains, in METABOLISM, the body is land and land is body. For the Wadawurrung, Wirribi-yaluk (Werribee river) is the ‘spine’ of Country, a waterway that has perpetuated life since time immemorial. Filmed around the Western Treatment Plant (WTP), Victoria, METABOLISM considers the interdependencies between human and more-than-human bodies and the consumption, colonisation and capitalisation of land.
